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This Is Rape Culture: Whose Credibility Problem?

If it only took telling a few lies over the course of your life to be free from the constant threat of rape, why, I'm sure women would lie through our teeth at every chance. The moon is fuchsia. It's cool to get paid less. No woman has ever been or could… more »
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06
01

A Small Victory for Women in the War on Unions

Many public employees in Wisconsin emitted a sigh of relief today when Dane County Circuit Judge Maryann Sumi struck down Republican Governor Scott Walker’s much- contested proposal to strip public employee unions of their collective bargaining rights.… more »
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04
12

Equal Pay is NOT JUST a Women's Issue - It's Everyone's Issue and the Lack of It Affects our Health

Happy Equal Pay Day! What is Equal Pay Day you might ask? Equal Pay Day is a public awareness event which symbolizes how far into 2011 women must work to be paid what men were paid in 2010. So today, April 12, 2011, after 75 extra days of waged work, the average working woman has finally been paid as much as the average working man received last year. Woo Hoo! more »
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04
06

Illinois Ruling on Emergency Contraception Is A Modern-Day Monkey Scopes

Yesterday, an Illinois Judge turned over a state rule requiring pharmacists to sell emergency contraception, asserting that it violates a state "right-of-conscience" law and the First Amendment.How "free speech" has come to be interpreted as a right… more »
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03
23

Silencing Sexual Harassment: American Apparel’s Same Antics with a New Twist

American Apparel’s CEO and President, Dov Charney, has been accused of sexual harassment. Again. . . . Charney, who is no stranger to allegations of sexual harassment, has been implicated in the past by at least four of his former female employees, who among other things accused him of using sexually explicit language in the workplace and exposing himself to them. more »
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