http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/042208WA.shtml From the page: “The wage gap between men and women has been stuck at 77 cents on the dollar – 72 cents for African-American women, 60 cents for Latinas.”
Health database POPLINE removes term “abortion”
http://jezebel.com/376691/ From the page: “Once again, librarians save the day! As reported last week, a reproductive health database run by John Hopkins University called POPLINE had removed the term “abortion” as a recognized search query in February.”
Why
http://www.equalrightsamendment.org/why.htm From the page: “It is necessary to have specific language in the Constitution affirming the principle of equal rights on the basis of sex because for more than two centuries, women have had to fight long and hard political battles to win rights that men (at first certain white men, eventually all men) possessed automatically because they were male.”
Most at NYU say their vote has a price – Washington Square News
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1107/6892.html Just wow. Unbelievable. And to think that so many people have fought to ensure that even imbeciles such as these would have the right to cast their vote. It sickens me. “anyone who’d sell his lifelong right to vote should be deported.” Amen to that! By the way, votes for women were first seriously proposed in the United States
Most successful pirate was beautiful and tough – CNN.com
http://www.cnn.com/2007/LIVING/worklife/08/27/woman.pirate/index.html?iref=newssearch “Wife of Cheng” Sounds like a great title for one hell of a movie based on the story.