Gender Discrimination

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• Female Objectification, A Collection of Images

  
  P.A.P. Blog - Human Rights Etc. — Authority: 433
  Female objectification (male objectification also exists, but is much less common) occurs when you regard or treat a woman as a thing or an object, separate from her personal and human attributes or characteristics. It’s often but not always sexual objectification , the reduction of an individual to a sexual ...
  2 days ago

• On Femme Invisibility

  
  Sugarbutch Chronicles — Authority: 504
  G at “Can I Help You, Sir?” asked about femme invisibility recently, and the topic has gone around the gender/queer blogs a bit, with some great posts and thoughts. First, and probably most obviously: I am not femme. So I am writing from a perspective of having dated and known many femmes in my life, but I do ...
  5 days ago

• Senate Democrats Delete Don’t Ask Don’t Tell Hearing

  
  Irregular Times: News Unfit for Print — Authority: 515
  Back in October, President Barack Obama promised the Human Rights Campaign, “I Will End Don’t Ask Don’t Tell. That’s my commitment to you.” Around the same time, Senator Carl Levin promised that Senate Armed Services Committee would hold a hearing in November on Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, the policy ...
  6 days ago

• International Men’s Day November 19th

  
  Best Celebrity Scoop — Authority: 150
  Are you taking care of your man? Well, here is a chance to show him how much you appreciate him. Why? Because November 19th is International Men’s Day. In the spirit of equality and less gender discrimination against men, the idea is somewhat new. In 1999 the day was launched posthumously in Trinidad and ...
  1 week ago

• Advantages of a Trade Union

  
  Win My Ex Back — Authority: 167
  One of the most vital decisions you will ever make in regards to your work would be whether or not you should join a trade union. Trade Unions are groups that aim to protect the rights of workers and to ensure that they are not exploited. Its no secret that some employers consider these organizations to be the scourge ...
  1 week ago

• International Men’s Day – A Festival

  
  Fight for justice — Authority: 122
  See the video below, this is a just a tip of the iceberg of the issues faced by men. However, International Men’s Day is not only about problems of men. It is about recognizing men for what they and not for the crap spread about them by male haters aka the feminists who have succeeded in shielding all men’s ...
  2 weeks ago

• Stupid/Pitts: 5 Things To Consider In The Health Care Debate [Roe Vs. World]

  
  Jezebel — Authority: 813
  Suffering from outrage overload over reproductive rights? Try not to lose sight of the major issues, including the availability of riders and second trimester costs and complications. After the jump, considerations to be made via todays healthcare reform headlines. We have no idea if we can get riders, or what ...
  2 weeks ago

• The church of England: above the law? | Riazat Butt

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 163
  An debate on gender discrimination by religious groups focused on women bishops – but MPs fudged the issue Yesterday, all eyes – well, Fleet Streets anyway – were on PMQs but in Westminster Hall a handful of honourable members were grappling with the application of sex discrimination laws to religious ...
  2 weeks ago

• Mormon leadership comes out in support of (some) basic rights for (some) LGBT Utahns

  
  Main Street Plaza — Authority: 123
  Video from the public hearing, featuring Michael Otterson, Eric Ethington (local blogger/activist and genuinely nice guy), Deeda Seed, and Jonas from the all-Brazilian America Forever bigot brigade: Text of LDS statement after the break. Transcript of remarks by the managing director of LDS Public Affairs, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Are You Ready for GINA?

  
  Welcome to the Manpower Employment Blawg — Authority: 468
  The Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA) goes into effect November 21 . Are you ready? In short, GINA imposes strict confidentiality rules on genetic information and prohibits: discrimination based on genetic information; employers from collecting genetic information, with very narrow exceptions; ...
  2 weeks ago

• Human Rights Maps (70): Gender Equality in Government

  
  P.A.P. Blog - Human Rights Etc. — Authority: 433
  ( source , click on the image to enlarge) ( source ) Read more about the reasons why this is a human rights issue. Posted in discrimination and hate, equality, human rights maps Tagged: discrimination, equal rights, feminism, gender discrimination, human rights maps, map, maps, politics, women, womens ...
  2 weeks ago

• State High Risk Health Insurance Plans Charge Women Higher Premiums

  
  Feminist Peace Network — Authority: 554
  In recent months we’ve learned that health insurance companies frequently charge women more than men for health insurance.  But they aren’t the only ones.  State High Risk plans that are designed to cover people who have ‘pre-existing conditions’ or for other reasons cannot obtain insurance in some case also ...
  3 weeks ago

• Gender discrimination, law and the fight for tenure at DePaul University

  
  Sociology Lens — Authority: 125
  By Rachael Liberman Academia has never been immune to charges of elitism, sexism, or racism. From the use of socially questionable theories as “objective truth” to the absorption of meritocracy, academia does not necessarily evoke thoughts of “fairness” or “transparency.” As a doctoral student myself, I ...
  3 weeks ago

• Opt in or opt out — let’s flip a coin

  
  Where's the Outrage? — Authority: 523
  According to a recent article in the Washington Post , many of the healthcare policy decisions that we think are being made in Washington, will instead be made in your state capital. Is this a good thing? I think not. In my opinion, politics is about not making decisions. Politicians almost never get voted out of ...
  3 weeks ago

• A round table for women with disabilities in South Asia

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 725
  Kolkata, Nov 2 (IANS) Participants from South Asian countries will deliberate on how to secure the rights of physically challenged women in mainstream society at a round table in Kolkata Tuesday.“Representatives from South Asian nations - Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, Sri Lanka and Maldives - will participate ...
  3 weeks ago

• Were #1 (Plus 30) in Closing the Gender Gap! Go U.S.!

  
  BlogHer - Health & Wellness — Authority: 145
  For the past four years, the World Economic Forum has studied the gender gap - that is, the amount of resources dedicated to boys and girls and womens opportunities to fully participate in society - in over 100 countries, then ranked them. (In 2009, the Index included data from 134 nations. At least 12 of 14 ...
  3 weeks ago

• Female beefeater harassment inquiry launched

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  Moira Cameron, towers first female yeoman warder, subject of alleged bullying The Tower of London has suspended two beefeaters as part of an investigation into alleged harassment of its first female Yeoman Warder. A third is under investigation over charges of bullying Moira Cameron, 44, who two years ago became the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Half the Sky

  
  Larry James' Urban Daily — Authority: 132
  A book we all should consider reading. . .and acting upon in our various corners of the world.  Posted on www.UrbanDaily.org
  4 weeks ago

• Gender pay gap still as high as 50%, UK survey says

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  • Women worst off in West Somerset with 53% gap • Strong public support for law to expose unfair wages Women are paid less than half as much as men in some parts of the UK, according to statistics published today that reveal huge regional variations in the pay gap between male and female workers. Nationally, ...
  4 weeks ago

• Freedom Hell on Earth

  
  Trends Updates — Authority: 571
  The social investigation was conducted by Freedom House. The organization’s Freedom in the World report entitled Worst of the Worst: The World’s Most Repressive Societies 2009 enumerates the bottom 21 countries and territories with regards to repression of human freedom. Here are some of the worst of hell on ...
  4 weeks ago

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