Three in Five Americans Say U.S. Has Long Way to Go to Reach Gender Equality
Harris Interactive reports that: “Seven in ten Americans say women often do not receive the same pay as men for doing exactly the same job.”
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How Settling with the Taliban Puts Women at Risk
Tom Malinowski writes in The Washington Post: “‘If you had to choose between saving a girl’s life or enabling her to go to school, which would you do first?’ This was Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s reply when I asked him last month if the rights of Afgh…
‘Good ol’ Boys’ in Warren’s Way?
Politico’s Jonathan Allen and Carrie Budoff Brown interviewed NOW President Terry O’Neill about why there is so much opposition from the White House and from Wall Street on the naming Elizabeth Warren to head the Consumer Protection Bureau: “She can’t get 60 votes in the Senate, some say — too polarizing. Others say Warren’s outspoken Read more …
Is Opposition to Warren Sexist?
NOW President Terry O’Neill is quoted in the Huffington Post about Sen. Chris Dodd’s latest opposition to Elizabeth Warren to lead the Consumer Protection Bureau: “‘I don’t know how you don’t identify sexism when Wall Street itself is notorious for its sexism and misogynism.’”
Elizabeth Warren, Likely to Head New Consumer Agency, Provokes Strong Feelings
Brady Dennis writes in The Washington Post about Elizabeth Warren: “She was the child of a cash-strapped family on the Oklahoma plains, a teenage wife and young mother who became the only member of her immediate family to graduate from college, then went…