Wage Gaps for Women Frustrating Germany – NYTimes.comBy SARAH PLASS…Millions of working mothers — and sometimes fathers — have to make often difficult trade-offs when it comes to work and family, but labor experts say the calculus is especially harsh in Germany, a country that despite having a woman chancellor and sitting at the center [...]
RHRealityCheck.orgCindy Cooper U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was honored by the Veteran Feminists of America this summer in "A Salute to Feminist Lawyers 1963-1975," held on June 9 at the Harvard Club in New York City.[At the conclusion of the program, Ginsburg answered questions; following are her comments on reproductive rights.]To one question [...]
OK, now she's given her speech, and we know this much:She's a good speaker, the camera likes her, and she sounds like a real Amurican.Republicans have good speechwriters – not great, like some of the Dems, but definitely good.The delegates really, really like herVictory is within reach in Iraq. Who knew?Judging from the audience shots, [...]
Following is the analysis by Joanna Grossman (Hofstra, visiting at Vanderbilt) of the California Supreme Court's ruling that a physician's religious beliefs could not justify denying fertility treatment because of a patient's sexual orientation (North_Coast_Womens_Clinic_v_Superior_Court ) [my previous post here]: FindLaw's Writ By JOANNA GROSSMAN…The defendants' fate in North Coast was essentially decided in 2004, [...]
Jane Mayer's new book The Dark Side is as good as reviewers have said. It is not easy reading; the descriptions of torture are circumspect, but not without detail. And it's no fun reading about the adoption of "enhanced interrogation techniques" as formal U.S. policy. It brought home to me as nothing else has that [...]
They play "pick Obama's cabinet", of course. In this spectacularly unscientific poll, Al Gore will be in charge of energy policy, Eric Holder narrowly won the post of AG, Colin Powell will return to head the Defense Dept, Michael Bloomberg will be Secretary of Treasury, Bill Richardson will take over Homeland Security, and Caroline Kennedy [...]