2005 August Archive | Feministing

Where’s the Daddy Wage Gap?

Statistics show that with each child they have, women lose ground on wages when compared to non-mothers.
It’s been dubbed the “Mommy Wage Gap”:
For the first child a woman has, the wage differential in comparison to nonmothers is from 2 to 10 percent less.
For the second child, the gap is from 4 to 16 percent less than for women with no children.
It’s not surprising that the primary caretaker’s wages suffer as the family grows. But I can’t stand the fact that this conversation never revolves around mothers’ and fathers’ respective levels of involvement in parenting.
Indeed, polling shows “American workers are divided as to which parent has to work harder to achieve work/life balance.”
Oh, ...

Statistics show that with each child they have, women lose ground on wages when compared to non-mothers.
It’s been dubbed the “Mommy Wage Gap”:
For the first child a woman has, the wage differential in ...

By Jessica • 18 years ago

Kentucky governor considers pardons for abused women

Kentucky governor Ernie Fletcher is considering giving pardons to ten women released from prison in 1995. All the women were in jail for violent crimes against the men that abused them.
Former governor Brereton Jones recommended that the women be freed after he saw a quilt they created depicting their abuse. The quilt was displayed at a state fair ten years ago.
Gov. Fletcher has just asked the Kentucky Commission on Women to review the cases.

By Jessica • 18 years ago

Anti-choice state laws at near-record high

As if Monday morning wasn’t bad enough…

The Washington Post reports today that repro rights are doing fairly shitty on a state-level.

This year’s state legislative season draws to a close having produced a near-record number of laws imposing new restrictions on a woman’s access to abortion or contraception.

Not shocking, I know. But seeing all of the horribleness is one article is quite something.

As if Monday morning wasn’t bad enough…

The Washington Post reports today that repro rights are doing fairly shitty on a state-level.

This year’s state legislative season draws to a close having produced a near-record ...

By Jessica • 18 years ago

And you thought U.S. politicians were bad

An Australian politician resigned today after it came out that he grabbed a female journalist’s ass and called an opponent’s Asian wife a “mail order bride.” And all at one partry! Lovely.

New South Wales Opposition Liberal Party leader John Brogden told a hastily-called news conference that he regretted his “inappropriate” behaviour and would quit the post that could have seen him become state premier.
He denied being drunk at the party thrown for the media by the Australian Hotels Association three weeks ago but admitted drinking six beers to celebrate the recent resignation of the long- ding Premier, Bob Carr.

Um yeah…I think he’s better off saying he was drunk. Does this guy really want to admit ...

An Australian politician resigned today after it came out that he grabbed a female journalist’s ass and called an opponent’s Asian wife a “mail order bride.” And all at one partry! Lovely.

New South Wales ...

By Jessica • 18 years ago

FDA delays decision on emergency contraception

You have got to be kidding me. Still? We still have to wait for a decision?

From the Associated Press:

The government on Friday put off its long-awaited final decision on whether to sell emergency contraception without a prescription, saying the pill was safe to sell over-the-counter to adults but grappling with how to keep it out of the hands of young teenagers.
…The FDA will allow 60 days of public comment on how to take such a step and enforce an age limit.

Um, how about you don’t? Young women are the women who need EC the most. And as we’ve pointed out before, many American teens can get abortions without parental ...

You have got to be kidding me. Still? We still have to wait for a decision?

From the Associated Press:

The government on Friday put off its long-awaited final decision on whether to ...

By Vanessa • 18 years ago

Figures.

As an update to Jessica’s post on the recent study claiming women are less intelligent than men, we’ve found that one of the researchers is not only sexist, but a eugenicist as well.
Lakshmi from The L-Files got the scoop from Atrios on this creepy mofo, Richard Lynn. He has apparently influenced the work of the authors of “The Bell Curve,” and has published works in a number of eugenicist journals. Here’s just a taste of his thoughts:
“What is called for here is not genocide, the killing off of the population of incompetent cultures. But we do need to think realistically in terms of the ‘phasing out’ of such peoples…. Evolutionary progress ...

By Vanessa • 18 years ago

New ad released on Roberts’ crappy record

Check out NARAL Pro-Choice America’s new television ad on John Roberts’ appalling record on privacy and choice. The ad highlights a memo he wrote in 1981 to the U.S. Attorney General stating that an established liberty is a “so-called ‘right to privacy’,” as well as a brief he wrote beseeching the overturn of Roe v. Wade.
NARAL President Nancy Keenan made this statement:
“At this point in our nation’s history, we need a Supreme Court nominee who respects our fundamental right to privacy, freedom, and personal responsibility. John Roberts dismisses our ‘so-called’ right to privacy – letting politicians into the most private decisions of every American and their families. NARAL Pro-Choice America will continue to be a vocal ...

By Vanessa • 18 years ago

First, the bad news.

While the Indian Parliament has been pussyfooting around the Women’s Reservation Bill for quite some time, we find that women in India may not have their legislation anytime soon.
Women have been working their asses off in the fight to gain 33 percent of seats in the Lok Sabha and state legislatures, yet the government has had problems coming to a consensus. The government made it clear that they intend to introduce the bill, yet they met on Tuesday and Wednesday concerning the matter and left with differing opinions and no bill signed. Sigh.
On a happier note, Lok Sabha unanimously passed a bill on Wednesday protecting women from all forms of domestic ...