Women’s Issues
Women on Boards: America Is Falling Behind
By Sylvia Ann Hewlett, Harvard Business Review- What will it take for men to get it? In the last five years, women and minorities actually lost ground in U.S. corporate boardroom representation, despite solid evidence that greater women’s representation in corporate leadership correlates directly with improved business performance. A 2010 McKinsey study finds that across all industry…
Read MoreWalmart Supreme Court Case and Women’s Pay
ABC World News with Diane Sawyer featured a segment on the equal pay issue for women in light of yesterday’s Supreme Court ruling that will make it more difficult for women to gain justice when pay discrimination occurs. Mika Brzezinski, the author of the new book Knowing Your Value, describes her difficulty in asking and…
Read MoreThird state axes funding for Planned Parenthood
Huffington Post – Republican state representatives in North Carolina voted to override Democratic Gov. Bev Perdue’s veto of the state budget Wednesday morning, ensuring that a provision to strip all federal and state money from Planned Parenthood will take effect on July 1. North Carolina is now the third state, after Indiana and Kansas, to…
Read MoreHotel Housekeepers Share Tales of Sexual Harassment
ABCNews – Elizabeth Moreno was making the bed in a downtown Chicago hotel room when the room’s guest unexpectedly returned. Hotel policy dictated she had to leave, but he insisted she stay. “He started asking me, ‘What are you doing later?’” Moreno said. Then, she said, he told her, “We can have sex. I’ll give…
Read MorePoll: Public tired of abortion debate
POLITICO – Americans are growing tired of the abortion debate and want to move on to a broader discussion about reproductive health, a new survey by a Democratic polling firm finds. The poll, conducted by Lake Partners, found that Americans feel Congress has focused too much on abortion and not enough on things like preventive…
Read MoreYoung Egyptian Female Demonstrators Subjected to Virginity Tests
Cairo (CNN) — A senior Egyptian general admits that “virginity checks” were performed on women arrested at a demonstration this spring, the first such admission after previous denials by military authorities. The allegations arose in an Amnesty International report, published weeks after the March 9 protest. It claimed female demonstrators were beaten, given electric shocks,…
Read MoreMSNBC Suspends Schultz Over “slut” Remark. Our View: It’s warranted
Politico– May 25, 2011 MSNBC has suspended Ed Schultz, host of the “The Ed Show,” for one week without pay for calling conservative talk show host Laura Ingraham a ‘right-wing slut’ on his syndicated radio program Tuesday. “Remarks of this nature are unacceptable and will not be tolerated,” MSNBC said in a statement. MSNBC said Schultz will…
Read MoreLibya Revolt Sidelines Women, Who Led It
New York Times – BENGHAZI, Libya — In recent days, after weeks of delays and closed-door meetings, rebel leaders here have announced a slate of new appointments, including a defense chief and a minister for reconstruction and infrastructure. They have added members to a national council, to represent areas in southern, central and western Libya, all…
Read MoreIron Ladies
Foreign Policy Magazine – “As a woman, I can’t go to war and I refuse to send anyone else,” said Rep. Jeannette Rankin, the Montana Republican who famously cast the sole congressional vote against declaring war on Japan following the bombing of Pearl Harbor. But these days, the old stereotype that women are more dovish than…
Read More60 Minutes: Journalist Lara Logan Tell Her Story of Abuse in Egypt
New York Times – Lara Logan thought she was going to die in Tahrir Square when she was sexually assaulted by a mob on the night that Hosni Mubarak’s government fell in Cairo. Click here to watch the video. Ms. Logan, a CBS News correspondent, was in the square preparing a report for “60 Minutes” on Feb.…
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