Women didn't get the right to vote until 1920. Since then, nothing has changed for women; 35 years ago the Equal Rights Amendment (preventing discrimination based on sex) was defeated when it was ratified by only 35 of the 38 states needed for passage. Any chance of equal pay for equal work was lost. To this day women are paid roughly 20% to 25% less than their male counterparts for doing the same job.
I have long believed the reason the ERA didn't pass back then is that Gloria Steinem co-opted the debate about women's rights, approaching it from a New York point of view rather than a national one. Saying things like "A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle" and "A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after," not to mention "make him sleep on the wet spot," didn't go over well with women in the Midwest who considered themselves feminists but still wanted to be mothers. If there is one person to blame for the failure of the ERA to pass, it's Ms. Steinem.
A country that discriminates against half its population cannot be held up as a great democracy. That's why I'm calling for a new push for equal rights for women. Surely without the ill-advised, self-serving rhetoric of Ms. Steinem, reason can prevail. Let's bring back--and pass--the Equal Rights Amendment!
Didn't he plaster a woman being put through a meat grinder on the cover of his magazine?
He blames a feminist for the Equal Rights Amendment’s failure to pass?
If feminists would just stop advocating women’s rights, maybe we’d get them, right?
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1.The willingness of many people to have a discussion about women's rights with a man who has made a fortune exploiting women.
2. A cyberspace news program giving that man a forum for supposedly intelligent people to have such a discussion.
$99,000 Maximum player salary, WNBA
about one fifth.
MAXIMUM
Lordy, the maximum of some male players could buy a team of women players.
Now...sadly, I don't even like high paid players, but...this bit of disparity is without reason or logic.
Well, maybe the first time, but the other reply was simple, just like this will be.
It isn't the ratings being noted.
It's the fact that the maximum women' pay is a fraction of the Minimum Men' pay.
Doesn't matter which team in which city.
The gig is set up as rule of law.
Women are inferior.
(I'm not saying women are inferior...NBA/WNBA are)
Women are STEADILY losing rights.
Sarah Palin - "I won't shut up and sit down but it's okay if I don't get paid as much as you" momma grizzley b.s.
Sharron Angle - " If a woman or a girl is victim to incest or rape...she should just make lemons out of lemonade" b.s..
Delaware's senate hopeful O'Donnell who eerily endorses guns but "spending time with yourself" well that's just evil and she wants in your bedroom to ban such behavior. Those aforementioned and Virginia "Ginny" Thomas (SCOTUS Clarence Thomas spouse) is trying their best to throw all that away.
Moreover all these creatures tout "freedom! small gov't!" yet are constantly trying to take over every woman's womb.
Obama's signed into law women to get equal pay for equal work when they are primary heads of households. FINALLY after 20 yrs working the same job, they can receive same pension. Gloria Steinum hallmarked 's these issues.
Women's right to vote is celebrated for passing 90 years. My grandmother lived longer. What I don't understand the most, all these right wing women like Thanks ladies. being barefoot and pregnant is just what tomorrows female presidential hopefuls are looking to do...NOT SO MUCH
"It's a proven fact every international aid organization knows that elevating the lives of WOMEN is the single best way to benefit children and even entire families. Including...men."
^^^And that's why many charities are corrupt. They believe in trickle-down economics.
"As a group, men tend to spend resources on themselves and their interests (partying, fighting, betting) while women spread resources around to loved ones before they reward themselves."
^^^Yeah, because Lord knows women don't spend money on retail, fashion, vanity, partying, etc. I wonder how Macy's and Nordstrom make their money...a mystery we'll never solve, I guess. {{-_-}}
But that is a technicality and I understand Mr. Flynt's point.
American women have equals rights and that is why the libbers drifted away. Especially after libbers made fools of themselves by pretending there was no different between men and women. That is until people pointed out that no women are discriminated against in playing for professional football and there isn't a showing of women in that field precisely because of the differences between men and women. At this point even womens' libbers had realized they were crackpots who couldn't even believe the junk they told themselves and others.
If there was a third wave of womens' libbers today with any of the old gumption they used to posses, they would be lobbying the government to keep Muslims from immigrating here. Islam, the Koran, advocates sexual slavery (concubines), and polygamy. Both are dehumanizing to women.
Democrats (the home of the libbers) don't care about this at all. I'll leave the reader to decide why.
The Bible advocates slavery, polygamy, stoning adulteresses to death, it's far more violent than the Koran and American Muslims in NYC are no more likely to carry out the barbarism in the Koran than a Christian in the US is going to stone a woman to death for having an affair.
@Cynthia: Female graduates get hired MORE than male graduates because workplaces prefer to hire more women (thanks to sexual harassment and gender discrimination laws, all of which are in YOUR favor). But according to you, the cause is men becoming cocky and letting their credentials lapse - which is an absolute lie. See? You even acknowledge that women get hired more than men, but then you push the falsehood that it's men's fault for not doing enough. But when men get paid more than women, it's inequality?? Come on now....stop with the double standards, Cynthia. As far as men leaving women for shiny objects, that is just completely false and insulting. You've just proven your misandry. Your facts are utterly false and you've been listening to too many politicians lie to you and your gender just so they can get the female vote. YOU get a grip...on reality.
And to the mods @ HuffPost, you people should be ashamed of yourselves. Nothing I said was offensive in any way, shape, or form. I guess I said something you don't want people to see. {{-_-}}
Women grads are getting hired more because...THEY'RE CHEAPER!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And it's a fact about men & shiny objects. Not for every man, no, but it's true for them as a group. Not that they couldn't learn to do better...but no one's teaching them very effectively. Laws and law enforcement REALLY go a long way in teaching better behavior, you know?
I support a law effectively enforcing equal pay, hiring, and promotions just for taxpayer jobs alone. Stop punishing whistle-blowers. There's plenty of discrimination in the public realm----and I know this first hand. Let the public sector set the example.
The thing about men and shiny objects is NOT true whatsoever. Besides, the same claim can be made for women: They could learn to do better and no one's teaching them very effectively to do so. Instead, they keep getting entitlements and rewards for NOT doing a better job. The problem with laws and law enforcement (Really? Do I need to even go there?) is that they tend to only punish and prosecute MEN while benefiting only WOMEN. So of course you'd like to sic the dogs on us.
There already IS equal pay. It's called work more hours, work more jobs (even the dangerous life-threatening ones), and stop taking so much time off - your boss is not responsible for how much time you spend with the kids. You work less, you get paid less. Simple economics. You can't have your cake and eat it too. I'm part of the REAL whistle-blowers. {{-_-}}
Larry, do you pay the male models in your magazine as much as your female models? I highly doubt it!
The bottom line: Women have a choice, not only in this example but others as well: kids or career, job or stay at home mom, join the military or work in the factory. Men rarely have that kind of choice.
Why does it seem rich people don't get this no matter how much media they are exposed to...we are in a freaking depression and Arianna seems one of the few well off media types to notice. We are really turning into a country of rich and poor and no in between, but the rich are doing so well they haven't a clue
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/245462/reverse-gender-gap-confirms-individual-choices-and-skills-determine-earnings-carrie-lu
http://thenononsenseman.com/Media/GenderWageGapFinalReport_2009.pdf
You can't use your own personal experience to judge the way it is everywhere. {{-_-}}
I can't count the number of men I've come across who were dead weight we all had to tolerate and work around, and the number of male supervisors who were total slackers completely carried by their competent staff, most of whom were females. I once worked as an alcohol and drug counselor in a public hospital-based rehab unit, and our supervisor was an emotionally disturbed man who was also an active alcoholic. In the two years I was there, I saw our unit's director---a male physician--- less than five times, because he rarely showed up for work. I could go on, and on, and ON! How long does anyone in their right mind think a female would have been tolerated in those positions?
Now, I have run into female slackers, don't get me wrong. But males outnumber them 3 to 1. Or more.