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and look around. especially check out the amazing and beautiful portraits

the NO H8 campaign

we ARE all equal whether you want to believe it or not.

equal?

hardly

(but i am NEVER going to stop until we are. i mean we ALL are)


They Fought the Law: Fred Strebeigh's Equal

By Michael O'Donnell

A colleague of mine recently argued an important civil rights case before the Supreme Court. In the hectic days before she left for Washington, as she reread every relevant decision and practiced clearing her throat, her attention was diverted by a niggling question: what would she wear to the oral argument? A fellow lawyer had set her to worrying by telling the cautionary tale of a female assistant solicitor general who some years earlier had shown up to court in what then-Chief Justice Rehnquist apparently regarded as an unlovely shade of brown. Halfway through her presentation, Rehnquist sent a note to the solicitor general, saying that he never wanted to see a government attorney wearing that color to the court again. ...............

.............And Felix Frankfurter, a giant of the court, turned down a young attorney named Ruth Bader Ginsburg when she applied for a clerkship with him in 1960. She had graduated near the top of her class from Columbia Law School, but her grasp of the law didn't figure in Frankfurter's decision. "I can't stand girls in pants!" he reportedly said. "Does she wear skirts?"............

some GOOD news???????????

hmmmmmmmmm it appears that way (and speaking of way... WAY TO GO ROSA!)

if you don't think women are unfairly treated or if you think women are paid the same as men (for the same jobs) you are most sadly mistaken (and live in some kind of vacuum fantasy world)

House approves bill to fight wage discrimination
By JIM ABRAMS, Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON – Energized by the prospects of a pro-labor president, House Democrats marked the first week of the new Congress Friday by pushing through two bills to help workers, particularly women, who are victims of pay discrimination.

Unlike President George W. Bush, who threatened to veto the two bills when they came up in the last session of Congress, President-elect Barack Obama has embraced them.

"Today we face a transformational moment," said Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., chief sponsor of the Paycheck Fairness Act. "With a new Congress, a new administration, we have a chance to finally provide equal pay for equal work and make opportunity real for millions of American women."

The Lilly Ledbetter Act would reverse a 2007 Supreme Court ruling that a worker must file claims of wage discrimination within 180 days of the first decision to pay that worker less, even if the person was unaware of the pay disparity. The Paycheck Fairness Act would close loopholes that have enabled employers to evade the 1963 law requiring equal pay for equal work. The first passed 247-171, the second 256-163................

ok i love this

i never heard of mc flow prior to this. she's kinda kick ass!



found via page one q AND mike tidmus (again)

hillary duff's (yeah, that's right) psa

abusing women is by NO means

just an 'islamic thing'. we all know it's not. we all know it goes across color lines, religious lines, ethnic lines, social lines. we all know it happens everywhere from shanty towns to town houses.

it's especially hard for a women from another culture living in america though. not knowing the language and perhaps not knowing their rights here.

there are groups of muslim (men) who are trying to change some of the underculture of the relationships of wives and husbands. just like there are other different groups (of men) who are trying to change THEIR undercultures regarding the treatment of women.

sisterhood is powerful and i mean that

For Some Muslim Wives, Abuse Knows No Borders
Traditional Pressures Can Persist in U.S.

By Pamela Constable Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, May 8, 2007; Page A01
One was a shy, slender young woman who spoke no English when she was brought from Pakistan to enter an arranged marriage with a stranger in Virginia. The other was a self-confident professional, born in Turkey but raised in the United States, who thought she knew what she was doing when she married an educated Muslim man in Maryland.
Yet both women fell under the sway of the same powerful pressures that sometimes reach around the globe to keep Muslim wives in the Washington region imprisoned in abusive marriages, unable to fight the gossip and shame that come with defying their culture and religion, isolated from help that is just a three-digit phone number away...........

..............For many years, our community did not face these issues. Women suffered in silence and fear. Even today, many imams think it could never happen in their mosque," Khan said. "Islam gives equal rights to men and women, but there are myths in Muslim society that men are superior and violence is permitted. This is wrong, and it needs to be said."
Khan and others are also trying to bring men into the debate by forming a group called Muslim Men Against Domestic Violence. But they said recruiting participants is not easy. Even when taken to court on charges of abuse, several experts said, many Muslim men will argue that they were within their rights or are being victimized by vindictive spouses..........

and now for a bit of comedy

like they needed a new study to determine this. ask ANY employer. just ask 'em. they'll tell you they pay their male employees MORE than their female employees. a study? we don't need no stinkin' study!

Stark pay gap for US women graduates

By Rebecca Knight in Boston

College-educated American women working full time earn dramatically less than male colleagues in the same field even just one year out of university, according to a new report.
The report, released on Monday by the American Association of University Women Educational Foundation, a Washington, DC-based group, said that one year after receiving a college degree, women make 80 per cent of what their male counterparts earn.
"By looking at earnings just one year out of college, you have as level a playing field as possible," said Catherine Hill, the director of research at AAUW. "These employees don’t have a lot of experience and, for the most part, don’t have care-giving obligations, so you’d expect there to be very little difference in the wages of men and women. But we find that women already earn less – even when they have the same major and occupation as their male counterparts."...............