Euro MPs back quotas to get more women into top jobs
BBC News reports: “The European Parliament has backed calls for quotas to put more women into company boardrooms, if member states are deemed too slow to act.”
issue: Stopping Violence Against Women
PETA Makes Light of Intimate Partner Violence
It is obvious to me that PETA’s intention of being “humorous” did not take into account that this video could be particularly disturbing to victims of domestic violence.
“Leave women alone” act!
Irin Carmon writes on Salon: “We are at a political moment that yields headlines like Politico’s recent ‘GOP scrambles to assuage women’s groups.’ Such copy must have delighted Democrats on the Hill: It means they had managed to back Republicans into a c…
NOW Condemns House for Passage of H.R. 4970
The National Organization for Women condemns today’s passage of H.R. 4970, the House Republican version of the Violence Against Women Act reauthorization bill.
Backward on Domestic Violence
The editors of The New York Times write: “In an all-too-rare show of bipartisanship, 15 Senate Republicans joined with the Democratic majority last month to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act, the landmark 1994 law that is key to efforts against…