Does the company treat female employees fairly? The question goes back to court.
E.J. Graff
E.J. Graff writes on social-justice and human-rights issues, particularly discrimination and violence against women and children; marriage and family policy; and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender lives. She is a resident scholar at the Brandeis Women’s Studies Research Center and the author of What Is Marriage For? The Strange Social History of Our Most Intimate Institution (Beacon Press, 1999, 2004).
Posted inEconomic Policy
More on the Abortion Debates: What if Your Mother Had Aborted You?
Yesterday I posted “So what if I hadn’t been born?” In reply, noted reproductive rights thinker Frances Kissling sent along her own very moving essay along these lines, published a few years ago in RH Reality Check: “What if your mother had aborted you? A daughter’s perspective.” As she says, I feel a need to […]
Posted inCivil Rights in America
Whistleblowers
Do the higher-ups ever take responsibility for what their subordinates do?
Posted inCivil Rights in America
FBI Updates Definition of Rape
But it doesn’t do much good for the victims.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Pink October
In case you missed it: Last Sunday The New York Times had a thoughtful examination of the pros and cons of the pinking of America-the Susan G. Komen foundation’s marketing of breast cancer awareness and its work raising funds for breast cancer research. NPR took a look at the anti-pink backlash. So I thought it […]
Posted inLaw and Justice
Here’s to You, Mrs. Robinson!
Vermont nominates a marriage-equality advocate to the state supreme court.
Posted inBooks, Arts and Culture
Will Blackness Be the Thing that Gets You?
Danroy Henry’s needless death shows just how much race matters—even if you do everything right.
Posted inCivil Rights in America
Must-See OWS Clip
This you gotta see. Really. …in which Alec Baldwin very nicely talks with an Occupy Wall Street whacko and explains that what we really need is an active SEC, not one that’s in the pocket of the banks.
