Gender equity issues in the news June 14 through June 27
- One of the most significant trends over the past 50 years has been the movement of women, especially mothers, into the paid labor force.
- When it passed in 1993, the Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) was supposed to be the beginning of a new movement to reshape the workplace to reflect the needs of working families. But the bill is incomplete.
- Why do women, on average, earn less than men in faculty positions?
- The news regarding women directors of fictional films in Hollywood continues to be bleak: in 2007, only 6 percent of these films were directed by women.
- Health care for female military veterans lags behind the care offered to male vets at many VA facilities, an internal agency report says, even as women are serving on front lines at historic levels.
- On the 36th anniversary of the passage of Title IX, many wonder why more women from their generation aren’t involved with molding today’s young women.
- Candace Parker is an incredible basketball player. There really isn’t much she can’t do on the floor, including dunk. In the world of women’s basketball, this is a big deal. But is that a good thing?
- Former Fresno State women’s basketball coach Stacy Johnson-Klein’s sexual discrimination and gender harassment case against the school has been settled after three years.
- The Army and Air Force discharged a disproportionate number of women in 2007 under the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy.
- Filmmakers came to Baltimore’s Frederick Douglass High School in 2004 to film Hard Times at Douglass High: A No Child Left Behind Report Card.
- So, can we finally answer the great parenting debate over which sex is more challenging to raise? Much depends on what you’re looking at, and when.
- If she hadn’t been an astronaut or teacher, Sally Ride may have been a tennis pro.
- Angered by what they consider sexist news coverage of Hillary Clinton’s bid for the Democratic presidential nomination, many women and erstwhile Clinton supporters are proposing boycotts of the cable networks.
- AAUW NYS members from many branches showed their support in the courtroom during the first week of the sexual harassment trial of LAF case support recipient Graciela Chichilnisky.
- New York Times blogger Judith Warner, dropped science after 9th grade and math after 10th grade. She studied an accumulated 18 years of foreign languages, but never set foot in a lab until she spent last week at M.I.T.
- The Fordham Institute released a report on two fascinating studies about the state of high-achieving students under the Bush Administration’s No Child Left Behind (NCLB) initiative.
- According to the Washington Post, about 500 public schools nationwide will institute single-sex classrooms by next fall.
- When telling friends and family about her legal internship this summer at the National Women’s Law Center, Anya Prince hears, “…So, umm.., is there really inequality left?”
- Anti-feminism on the Internet is widespread, vicious, and hilarious. Feministing made a list of the top ten worst anti-feminist videos. Enjoy their list of crazy, funny, and just plain odd anti-feminist videos compiled.
- The national discussion of women’s leadership changed from one of the merits of an accomplished senator turned potential first female president to the clothes of the potential first ladies fast enough to give Huffington Post blogger Lisa Witter whiplash.
