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Supreme Court Lags Again
Tweet Share on Facebook May 30, 2007 CommentThis week's Ledbetter ruling by the high court is a supremely enlightening example of the arbitrariness of the law and the difference one justice can make. Beyond that, it reifies the concept of the Supreme Court as a lagging indicator of American politics.
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Pregnant Workers Face More Job Bias
Tweet Share on Facebook May 25, 2007 CommentJob discrimination against pregnant women is on the rise, according to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
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Michelle Obama's Job Decision
Tweet Share on Facebook May 23, 2007 Comment (1)Michelle Obama's decision to drastically reduce her high-paying work schedule to stump for her husband, particularly to boost his support among female voters, has riled some feminists.
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Feeling Down? You're Not Alone
Tweet Share on Facebook May 21, 2007 Comment (1)Feel depressed, gloomy, even? About the state of the world or the state of this country, I mean. You're not alone. In fact, a new Associated Press-Ipsos poll says those of us who fear the sky is falling are in the vast majority.
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A Peek Into Our Diverse Future
Tweet Share on Facebook May 18, 2007 Comment (1)The Census Bureau released figures this week showing that the number of nonwhite Americans broke the 100 million mark last year for the first time in American history. That means roughly 1 in 3 Americans is black, Hispanic, Asian, or American Indian. And Americans of color are also decidedly younger as a group than white Americans.
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The End of the Biological Clock?
Tweet Share on Facebook May 16, 2007 CommentThe Washington Post reports that egg-freezing is on the rise, especially among single career women. More women are using fertility services to freeze their own eggs with the hope of becoming pregnant and bearing biological offspring in their 40s and beyond. The Post quotes a cancer survivor advocacy group that recently surveyed 430 clinics nationwide and found that 138 of them freeze and store eggs, up from 58 three years ago.
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Latest Ploy: Blame the Wife
Tweet Share on Facebook May 14, 2007 CommentWife-beating is out, but wife-blaming is in—in some circles, that is. Look at how GOP presidential nomination front-runner Mitt Romney last week blamed his wife for writing a check to pro-choice women's health provider Planned Parenthood. C'mon, Mitt. The check was written from the joint checking account controlled by you and Mrs. Romney. And all one need do is head over to YouTube.com and watch the 2002 video of the telegenic Romneys (Mitt and Ann) proclaiming to a Boston TV interviewer their joint support for a woman's right to determine her own biological future. Ah, Internet video is a wondrous thing, leaving little doubt of the 180-degree whipsaw the former governor has done on abortion rights.
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Alphas vs. Betas
Tweet Share on Facebook May 11, 2007 CommentWe've all heard of the Mommy Wars—that dust-up of the past decade between full-time homemaker moms and career women moms. But this Mother's Day there's a new twist to the tiff, and it's the war between so-called alpha and beta moms. The alphas are typically high-achieving women with a businesslike approach to parenting and excellent organizational skills.
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Pardon the Rant
Tweet Share on Facebook May 9, 2007 CommentPardon the rant, but it's absolutely untenable that in this day, in this age, in this millennium, a study such as this one provides some awfully antiquated-sounding findings. Media Matters (a progressive media organization) released a survey this week of female and minority talking heads and hosts on cable TV news shows, titled, "Locked Out: The Lack of Gender and Ethnic Diversity on Cable News Continues."
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Paid Parenthood: Not a Great Idea
Tweet Share on Facebook May 7, 2007 CommentA recent Reuters story posited that if a typical full-time homemaker were paid for "her" work, she'd earn almost $140,000 per year. While this concoction might elicit a prideful grin from some "typical stay-at-home mother" (Reuters's description, not mine), it's not a story likely to generate progress for women overall.
