December 14, 2010
May 20, 2009
Show Them Your Brain
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Good advice from Ellen’s ‘common cement’ speech at Tulane:
Life is like one big Mardi Gras
But instead of showing your boobs, show people your brain
And if they like what they see, youll have more beads than you know what to do with
April 28, 2009
Support Equal Pay!
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It turns my stomach to think that I have had to work nearly four months this year to equal my husband’s wages from last year. We have the same education and qualifications, but our work is not valued the same.
Why April 28? The typical woman worker had to toil all of 2008 and through April 28, 2009 to earn the equivalent of her male counterpart’s earnings in 2008 alone. (Center for American Progress)
Check out several great posts from the National Women’s Law Center’s Blog for Fair Pay Day 2009 here. For a great Equal Pay primer, check out “Why Arent’ We There Yet?”
As RobinNWLC points out, women often have no way of knowing if we are being paid fairly. That’s why we need the Paycheck Fairness Act.
The Act would deter wage discrimination by closing loopholes in the EPA and barring retaliation against workers who disclose their wages. The bill also allows women to receive the same remedies for sex-based pay discrimination that are currently available to those subject to discrimination based on race and national origin. (NWLC)
Click here to urge your senators to support the Paycheck Fairness Act!
February 18, 2009
Californians’ Lives Not a Joke
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Most of the time I hear Arnold Schwarzenegger’s voice, I change the station. It irks me how he always seems to be joking about things I do not find funny. It’s a trait George W. possessed as well. I think it betrays their inability to discuss the situation at hand intelligently, like the class clown who acted out because he couldn’t read.
Californians are suffering. The budget has been hung up for months, over what increasingly looks like Republicans’ failed ideological stance against raising taxes. They even ousted their leader last night, during their budget nightmare sleepover that failed to reach an agreement. Due to the lack of one Republican vote, 20,000 people are getting pink slips in our state. Those are real people who probably would have chosen to pay a few more cents on the dollar in taxes to losing their jobs and their abilities to support their families.
December 10, 2008
Out of the Way of Fair Pay
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MomsRising has a campaign going on in support of Fair Pay. They are gathering signatures to get the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act moving forward again.
Sign the petition here.
Also, check out new research on the pay gap between men and women. You can calculate the average pay gap (over a career) for women in your state by occupation and education.
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September 30, 2008
What Republican Leadership?
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The Republican Party’s leadership apparently doesn’t speak for the Republican Party, which means it’s not really leadership.
September 22, 2008
McCain Plays Dumb About Fiorina’s Payout
Posted by Noticed under equality, Media Bias, Politics, Women in Politics | Tags: campaign issues, carly fiorina, crisis, economy, equality, feminism, john mccain, lies, media, Media Bias, Politics, sexism, women against McCain, women against Palin, Women in Politics |Leave a Comment
I have a theory that’s picking up steam. John McCain really offended women with his choice of Sarah Palin. In the past few weeks, every time a woman interviews McCain or one of his surrogates, they ask the tough questions they’ve been largely avoiding throughout this campaign. It’s even happening on Fox News and The View!
The latest in the series of women asking the tough questions came this morning from Meredith Vieira.
Unwilling to let McCain play dumb (like usual when he doesn’t want to answer a question) she follows up about Carly Fiorina’s compensation package. He insists that she did a good job as CEO and that he doesn’t know the details of her ‘golden parachute.’ Vieira presses further, noting that he’s been complaining all week about the fat cat CEOs who get big bucks while their employees get laid off. She reminds McCain that Fiorina is “an example of exactly the kind of person you say is at the root of the problem.” (ThinkProgress)
UPDATE: More women speaking out on McCain-Palin: Campbell Brown, Wanda Sykes, Andrea Mitchell, Shushannah Walshe, Lilly Ledbetter, …