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Gender Discrimination

In Defense of the Weenie Roast

Amelia Gray | Posted 11.30.2009 | Books

Read More: Women Writers, Sexism, Writers, Publishers Weekly, Gender Discrimination, Authors, Female Authors, Books, Best Books, Best Books of 2009, Books News
Amelia Gray

Assumptions that the Publishers Weekly Top 10 Books of 2009 emerged from the hazy cigar smoke of an old boys' club are likely misguided.

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Semenya's Struggle Teaches Us About Understanding Gender Identity

Emma Ruby-Sachs | Posted 11.19.2009 | Sports

Read More: South Africa, Sports, Intersex, Gender Stereotypes, Transgender, Gender Discrimination, Gender Testing, Caster Semenya Gender, Transgendered, Caster Semenya, Transgender Issues, World Championships, Gender, Iaaf, Sports News
Emma Ruby-Sachs

A South African runner whose gender identity stirred up huge controversy will be permitted to keep her title and prize money. But how do we define what is too male to compete in a women's sport?

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Conservative Catholic College Rejects Birth Control

Reproductive Justice | Posted 11.19.2009 | Living

Read More: Abortion, Walmart, Conscience Clause, Belmont Abbey College, Gender Discrimination, Reproductive Rights, Religious Freedom, Reproductive Health, Contraception, Birth Control, Anti-Choice, Pro-Life, Pro-Choice, Health Care, Religion, Living News
Reproductive Justice

Belmont Abbey College argued in court that it was a secular institution in order to receive state funds, but then removed birth control from its employee health care plan. Their reason? The Catholic Church.

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Iranian Women's Voices

Mahnaz Afkhami | Posted 10.26.2009 | Books

Read More: Women's Rights, Censorship, Islam, Iran, Journalism, Gender Discrimination, One Million Signatures Campaign, Iranian Women, Grassroots, Oppressive Government, Books, Books News
Mahnaz Afkhami

In the flood of news and information that surrounds us every day, we may take for granted the constant ripple of voices around the globe whose struggle to be heard often ends in violence, imprisonment or death.

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G.I. Jane Breaks The Combat Barrier: Number Of High-Ranking Military Women Rising Considerably

nytimes.com | LIZETTE ALVAREZ | Posted 08.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Military Gender Discrimination, Military Ranks, Gender Discrimination, War in Afghanistan, u.s. War in Iraq, Women in the Military, U.S. Military, Gender, Politics News

Before 2001, America's military women had rarely seen ground combat. Their jobs kept them mostly away from enemy lines, as military policy dictates. ...

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Plumbing, Discrimination, and Health Insurance Rates

Laura Chapin | Posted 09.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Gender Discrimination, Colorado, Insurance Industry, Women's Rights, Women's Health, Sen. Joyce Foster, Health Care Discrimination, Jamie Scholl, Politics News
Laura Chapin

Why do we need health care reform with a public option? Because one of the last bastions of legal discrimination against women is the individual health care market.

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South African Women Still Second-Class Citizens

Alex Matthews | Posted 09.10.2009 | World

Read More: South Africa, Rape, Sexual Abuse, Gender Discrimination, Feminism, Patriarchy, Misogyny, Sexual Violence, South-Africa-Democracy, Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge, African National Congress, Mbeki, International Women's Day, Sexual Assault, Pretoria, South Africa Aids, Sexual Harassment, Africa AIDS, Status Quo, World News
Alex Matthews

South Africa has a crisis of values in which men are brought up to believe they are entitled to treat women as objects to abuse, hurt, exploit, rape, harass, control and patronize.

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Gender Elephant in the Gladwell's Outlier Living Room

Ellen Snortland | Posted 08.20.2009 | Living

Read More: Success, Malcolm Gladwell Outliers, Gender Bias, Outlier, Gender Discrimination, Gender, Living News
Ellen Snortland

Public challenge to Malcolm Gladwell: examine the "glass ceiling," the long shadow cast by both rich and poor men's forms of primogeniture.

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The Hudson Valley Renegades' Promotional Night Under Dispute

Poughkeepsie Journal | Sean T. McMann | Posted 08.06.2009 | New York

Read More: 14th Amendment, Sports, Hudson Valley, Minor League Baseball, Gender Discrimination, Hudson Valley Renegades, Liberal Use of Human Rights Violations Tag, New York, Baseball, New York News

FISHKILL - The Hudson Valley Renegades still plan on holding Tuesday's promotional night, an event the team says is a tribute to its female fans. Dut...

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Peaceful Revolution: Another Blow to Women

Debra L. Ness | Posted 06.21.2009 | Living

Read More: Women's Rights, US Supreme Court, Retirement Savings, Workplace Discrimination, Gender Discrimination, Obama Administration, Pregnancy, Parental-Leave, Living News
Debra L. Ness

30 years after our nation outlawed discrimination on the basis of pregnancy, so many women -- and women of color in particular -- are still experiencing it in serious ways.

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God the Mother or Paleolithic Porn?

Dale Allen | Posted 06.19.2009 | Living

Read More: Gender Divide, Goddesses, Gender Discrimination, Living News
Dale Allen

What we have come to describe as "feminine" values are actually attributes that belong to women and men; they are a valued part of society when the feminine is not subjugated.

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Still Not Equal

Rep. Carolyn Maloney | Posted 05.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, 9/11 Families, Gender Discrimination, Lilly Ledbetter, 9/11 Victims, Equal Pay, Politics News
Rep. Carolyn Maloney

The original 9/11 victim compensation formula is an example of how women as young as our daughters, in this decade, are still facing the same obstacles we vowed to eradicate.

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We Are All Guilty

Marianne Mollmann | Posted 04.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Women in the Workplace, US Ratification of CEDAW, Women, Human Rights, Pay Discrimination, Workplace Discrimination, Gender Discrimination, Women's Interests, Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, Human Rights Abuses, Politics News
Marianne Mollmann

Why do women and girls continue to suffer discrimination and abuse? There is no easy answer.

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A Life Of Service: For Love, Money or Both?

Tabby Biddle | Posted 04.07.2009 | Living

Read More: Working Women, Fair Pay for Women, Women, Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, Gender Discrimination, Pay Equity, Equal Pay for Women, Living News
Tabby Biddle

The recession may not only be changing household budgets and habits, but also challenging longstanding gender roles.

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Goodyear, You Can Spare $360K for Lilly Ledbetter?

Joanne Bamberger | Posted 03.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., Equal Pay, Joanne Bamberger, Gender Discrimination, Lilly Ledbetter, Punditmom, Fair Pay, Video, Politics News
Joanne Bamberger

Even though Lilly Ledbetter has become a standard bearer for the fight for fair pay for women, Lilly herself will never see a nickel of the money that she sued Goodyear Rubber & Tire for.

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Can You See The Separate Worlds of Work for Men and Women?

Philip N. Cohen | Posted 08.06.2008 | Business

Read More: Sex Segregation, Gender Discrimination, Economy, Employment, Gender, Jobs, Glass Ceiling, Business News
Philip N. Cohen

Lots of people work in environments that seem integrated. But these are mostly in the white collar jobs of the professionals and the college educated; the blue-collar world is still a man's world.

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Bloomberg LP Hit With Gender Discrimination Suit

The New York Times | ANAHAD O'CONNOR | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home

Read More: EEOC, Bloomberg LP, Gender Discrimination, Home News

The federal government announced this afternoon that it had filed a lawsuit against Bloomberg L.P., the financial services company founded by Mayor Mi...

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