Kuwaiti Women A Bit Freer
Kuwait’s supreme court gave women in that country a reason to rejoice this week when that court decided to give women the right to get a passport without spousal consent:
The court found the article in the decades-old law “unconstitutional” because it goes against the principal of equal rights for men and women.
“It undermines her free [...]
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 [...]
Iranian Feminism Takes a Hit: The Attempted Suppression of the One Million Signatures Campaign
For almost three years now, a campaign has been brewing in Iran to obtain the same marriage rights for women as men have. The One Million Signatures Campaign demands changes in Iranian law relative to women’s rights in marriage:
The One Million Signatures Campaign officially launched on August 27, 2006, aims to collect one million signatures [...]
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 [...]
Damned If You Do, Damned if You Deliver
In the neverending war on women’s rights, one of the things that often allows misogyny to continue, is the place women have in the reproductive process. Unlike men, women are given the responsibility of carrying and birthing the child. In that vein, many feminsts have worked for years to secure rights to certain maternity laws, [...]
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