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The bias against working women
In proclaiming March as Women's History Month, President Obama stated that "too many women feel the weight of discrimination on their shoulders." Liberals often make this claim, citing the fact that women earn only 77 cents for every dollar earned by men,...
Tags: Discrimination, Career and Workplace, Minority Groups, Earnings, Earnings Forecasts
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Lesbian LAPD officers settle harassment suit for $1.25 million
L.A. NOWThe Los Angeles City Council approved a $1.25-million payout Wednesday to a lesbian LAPD officer and a lesbian retired officer to settle claims by the women that they were subjected to repeated sexual harassment by a supervisor. The agreement marks...... -
Are women winning the world but losing their feminine souls?
I’m worried that women may very well have won — or are about to win — the Battle of the Sexes but may have lost the War of the Genders. (These are the things I worry about at 2 a.m. after my third dinner of the day, hopped up on sugars...Tags: Minority Groups, U.S. Department of Defense, Ultimate Fighting Championship, Sports, Leon Panetta
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Zombie blood and radical activism
Founder Yvonne MacCormick Lyons says the Women's International Film Festival combats being "categorized as chick flicks" by screening films in various genres. But for the first time, the WIFF will include a fright night. Three female-directed horror...
Tags: The Women (movie, 2008), Festive Events, Ghouls and Zombies (supernatural entities), Movies, Entertainment
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The 'feminist housewife' vs. Beyonce
New York magazine’s article “The Retro Wife,” about how self-described feminists are bucking their NYC careers in favor of becoming stay-at-home moms, has ignited a fierce debate online. Is feminism the opportunity to make the choice...
Tags: Cultural Development, Personal Weapon Control, Interior Policy, Politics, Arts and Culture
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On Theater: 'Having It All' has a lot
The five women who comprise the cast of "Having It All," the new musical now on stage at the Laguna Playhouse, might indeed have it all — if their various skills and attitudes were condensed into one individual. As it is, each of them, no matter...
Tags: Music, Entertainment, Kennedy Airport, Entertainment Events, Theater
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ACLU supports non-sexist approach to schools
The recent commentary, "Md. should support single-sex schools" (March 12), fundamentally misstates the ACLU position on single-sex education. ACLU's "Teach Kids, Not Stereotypes" campaign targets single-sex programs across the country that are based...Tags: Public Schools, Literature, Schools, Arts and Culture, American Civil Liberties Union
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'They don't want to go back'
March is Women's History Month, but the headlines give us little to celebrate. Women who dare to attend protests in Egypt are routinely beaten and subjected to brutal "virginity tests." Girls in Afghanistan are beaten or disfigured for attending school....Tags: AIDS, Sex Crimes, Arab Spring, Annapolis, Politics
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Dawn Turner Trice: Addie Wyatt exhibit opens
When Chicago's Rev. Addie Wyatt died last year at 88, I wrote that she was a dynamo in the labor, civil and women's rights movements. That was a mere snapshot. On Saturday, an exhibit of her life will open at the Chicago Public Library's Vivian G. Harsh...
Tags: University of Chicago, Politics, Dawn Turner Trice, Chicago Tribune Columnists, Career and Workplace
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Contentious reaction in Steubenville after rape guilty verdict
Once the rape occurred, the crime never left the Web -- and that remains true after a high-profile prosecution returned guilty verdicts for a pair of Ohio high-school football players on Sunday. Their trial is over, yet their crime remains under debate...Tags: Trent Mays, Juvenile Delinquency, The New York Times, Crime, Law and Justice, Crimes
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Helen B. Wolfe, advocate of women's rights
Helen B. Wolfe, an outspoken advocate of women's rights who also had been a member of the faculty of McDaniel College for more than a decade, died March 5 from cancer at Carroll Hospice Center's Dove House in Westminster. She was 79.
With a head of thick...Tags: Buffalo State College , State University of New York, Carroll County (Maryland), Politics, Bedford (Bronx, New York)
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Woodstock Institute finds gender bias in joint home loan, refinancing approvals
Co-borrowers may want to rethink whose name goes first on a mortgage application. Early findings from a study under way at the Woodstock Institute found that in the six-county Chicago area, joint applications for home purchases and refinancings were much...
Tags: Mortgages, Discrimination, Bank of America Corp., Minority Groups, Interior Policy
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