Kirk Johnson writes for The New York Times: “Abortion rights is the flash point, being wielded by the left in hard-fought races from New York’s contest for governor, to Senate races in Florida and California, as Democratic candidates or groups try to rally their base and attract moderate Republican or independent women — a slice of the electorate that is even more coveted than in years past.”
Dawn Kopecki writes for Bloomberg: “Women managers in finance, a group that includes bank tellers as well as executives, earned 63.9 cents for every dollar of income men earned in 2000, based on median salaries, according to Government Accountability Office statistics analyzed by Bloomberg. In 2007, the last year for which data are available, the figure was 58.8 cents. The 41-cent gap was the biggest in any of 13 industries surveyed by the GAO, and only two others had a widening disparity.”
AP’s Meg Kinnard interviewed NOW President Terry O’Neill and got her reaction after South Carolina Senator Jim DeMint made sexist and homophobic remarks about women and gays: “National gay and women’s rights groups on Tuesday called on U.S. Sen. Jim DeMi…
Washington Post’s Rachel Weiner blogs about the reaction and criticism Sen. Jim DeMint is getting from progressive organizations about his hateful comments: “Gay groups and women’s group are calling on Sen. Jim DeMint (D-N.C.) to apologize for comments…
CBS News Political Reporter Brian Montopoli quotes NOW President Terry O’Neill about the dangerous comments Sen. Jim DeMint made about gays and single sexually active women unfit to teach kids in public schools: “He made the comments in response to a qu…