Equity in the News from April 23 – May 3, 2008

• Fox news segment on Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act vote and pay equity. Segment features Lilly Ledbetter, Lisa Maatz of AAUW, and others.
• When clerics, ministers and businessmen gathered at a forum in Riyadh last month to discuss women in the workplace, there were no women in sight.
• Since it was founded, the L.A. SWAT team has been all-male, mostly white and resistant to change. But that may soon change.
• Pfc. Monica Brown cracked open the door of her Humvee outside a remote village in eastern Afghanistan to the pop of bullets shot by Taliban fighters. But instead of taking cover, the 18-year-old medic grabbed her bag and ran through gunfire toward fellow soldiers in a crippled and burning vehicle.
• The Indian prime minister described the widespread practice of aborting female fetuses as a “national shame.”
• Did a recent comedy set in London cross the line to assault?
• Students affiliated with the Zeta Psi fraternity who were involved in January’s “Yale Sluts” incident stood before the Executive Committee of Yale College three weeks ago and were found “not guilty” on a charge of intimidation and harassment, sources close to the proceedings confirmed this weekend.
• Sixty-nine percent of young mothers ages 18 to 34 have incurred medical debt, a survey indicates.