Tag Archives: women
Obama campaign’s “Life of Julia” and GOP outrage further exposes why they’re losing women’s votes
Tweet In case you missed it, Obama’s presidential campaign released a new website yesterday, The Life of Julia, that draws comparisons between what an American middle class woman’s life would look like under a Romney administration compared to Obama. While on it’s head, the idea of using one (white, cisgender) fictional character to represent the [...]
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A New Day in Politics: Complicated conversations about Muslim women’s rights
TweetI have been heartened by the substantive conversation happening in thought leadership publications about the plight of women in predominantly Arab and Muslim nations. Referring to Muslim women as people with desires, agency, needs and destinies is a new direction in how “the West” has ever talked about the real lives of women within these cultural contexts. [...]
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It’s Equal Pay Day: A Round-Up of Reads
Tweet It’s Equal Pay Day, y’all! We’ve got a round-up of reads and other tidbits to check out: David Futrelle has a pretty comprehensive rebuttal to any of those wage gap “mythers” you may come across today. Transgriot reminds us that the wage gap for women of color and trans women makes 77 cents look [...]
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Memo to Robert Ehrlich: We already know Romney’s “real views”
TweetOh, puhlease. Think Progress caught this interview last night on CNN where Robert Ehrlich, Mitt Romney’s Maryland campaign chair, was asked about Romney’s “women problem” with the polls (in short, the majority of them don’t vote for him), to which he responded that Democrats are using Santorum’s verbage to confuse voters with Romney, adding: When [...]
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