Shriver Report Says Women Are Half…Are We Surprised?
That’s right, folks. The newly released Shriver Report: A Woman’s Nation Changes Everything has found that women are now half of the workforce and that 2/3 of all families have a female breadwinner or co-breadwinner. The report is being hailed as groundbreaking:
For the first time in US history women are about to become the majority [...]
At 100 Days It’s Michelle, Not Barack, Who Is Being Graded
CNN.com has this piece about Michelle Obama and the first 100 days in office:
But Michelle Obama offers a personal rebuke to that message. Her personal story — born into a blue-collar family; overcoming racism and once even making more money than her husband — makes her a mesmerizing figure to women across the globe, says [...]
A New Day for Fair Pay: Obama Signs Ledbetter Act
How amazing is it that the first bill that President Obama signs into law is the Ledbetter Fair Pay Act? Pretty fitting if you ask him:
“It is fitting that with the very first bill I sign … we are upholding one of this nation’s first principles: that we are all created equal and each deserve [...]
Equal Pay Inches Towards Reality
Yesterday the Senate approved the Ledbetter Fair Pay Act by a vote of 61-36. The bill was passed by the House over a week ago, but because it was passed along with another bill that the Senate did not consider, it now has to go back to the House for a new vote which is [...]
New Year. New Congress. New Progress?
LiLly Ledbetter may not have had her day in court, but she may have her day in Congress tomorrow. After being rejected by the Senate in the last Congress, many worried that the struggle for fair pay wouldn’t live to see another day in Congress. But tomorrow, in the first week of the 111th Congress, [...]
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