In a campaign promise fulfilled, President Obama signed the first significant pro-lesbian, pro-woman, pro-disability rights legislation today. The Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act expands the 1969 federal hate crimes law to include sexual orientation, gender, gender identity and disability.
ABC’s White House Senior Correspondent Jake Tapper blogs about NOW President Terry O’Neill’s response to President Obama’s all-male athletic outings that leave women out in the decision-making process: “We asked Terry O’Neill, the new president of the National Organization for Women, what she thought of those Democratic women and others quietly complaining about a “boy’s Read more …
Jake Tapper interviews Terry O’Neill for a piece on ABC’s Good Morning America: Is the White House too much of a boy’s club?
Liza Mundy reports for the Washington Post that “twenty-five years ago, as an exceptionally gifted graduate student at the University of California at Berkeley, [the Nobel Peace Prize winner Carol] Greider, now 48, visited her lab to check an experiment, and discovered evidence of an enzyme called telomerase.”
Writing for USA Today, Dan Vergano reports: “Women had the ‘right stuff,’ too, back in the ’60s. But the data on their performance tests were buried in the Mad Men era, and it was two decades before there was an American female astronaut.”
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