AAUW is deeply critical of today’s U.S. Supreme Court’s sharply divided decision in Wal-Mart v. Dukes. Although the high court did not rule on the merits of the case, this misguided decision prevents the women of Wal-Mart from taking on America’s largest private employer as a nationwide class-action group, leaving each woman to file her [...]
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Disappointed in Wal-Mart v. Dukes Ruling
Posted in 2011 AAUW Convention, Equity in the News, Sex Discrimination, Sexism, Social Justice, Supreme Court, The AAUW Community, Women & Economic Security, Women and Civil Rights, Women and Work, tagged Betty Dukes, Christine Kwapnoski, class action, CSPAN, discrimination, Edith Arana, Equal Rights Advocates, Justice, Linda Hallman, pay equity, rally, Sam's Club, Wal-Mart, walmartclass.com on June 20, 2011, | 1 Comment »
AAUW Calls on Senate to Confirm Goodwin Liu
Posted in Equity in the News, Sex Discrimination, The AAUW Community, Women and Civil Rights, tagged 9th Circuit, Barack Obama, Berkeley, Capitol switchboard, confirmation, constitutional values, diversity, equality, federal courts, George Bush, Goodwin Liu, judges, judicial nominees, Justice, Kenneth Starr, liberty, Richard Painter, Senate, U.S. Court of Appeals, U.S. Senate on May 18, 2011, | Leave a Comment »
Update: On Thursday, May 19, the Senate voted on whether to move to full debate on Liu’s possible confirmation. The cloture vote did not muster the 60 votes required to overcome that procedural hurdle, failing 52-43 on a near-party line vote. Over the last few years, the confirmation of judges has become a political issue [...]
Women in History
Posted in Social Justice, Supreme Court, The AAUW Community, Women and Civil Rights, Women and Work, Women's History, Women's History Month, tagged Justice, O'Connor, Reagan, Sandra Day O'Connor on March 22, 2011, | Leave a Comment »
Sandra Day O’Connor became the first woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court in 1981.
Open Thread: Nominating a Supreme Court Justice
Posted in Voter Education, tagged diversity, First 100 Days, Hillary Clinton, Justice, Justive Souter, Sarah Palin, SCOTUS, Supreme Court on May 6, 2009, | 5 Comments »
In light of Justice Souter’s recent announcement that he is stepping down from the U.S. Supreme Court in June, my colleagues and I were joining with the pundits in pondering who his replacement might be. Many are speculating that President Obama’s first Supreme Court nominee will likely be a woman to fill the space left [...]
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