Posts Tagged women’s rights
Truth in Numbers
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Random Blogging on December 17th, 2012
Harper’s Magazine has a long-running feature called Harper’s Index, where they provide survey results without commentary. The subject-matter of those surveys varies widely, but they are generally thought-provoking, and these recent numbers provided the usual food for thought: • Rank of “attire” among the leading reasons “millennials” are unsuccessful in job interviews: 1 • Rank of [...]
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Deja Vu All Over Again
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Public Policy and Governance on May 23rd, 2012
For reasons only sociologists will understand, Americans have chosen this particular time to revisit issues about the status of women that I thought we’d settled decades ago. There are a lot of parallels with racism. We elected a black President, but–faced with that stark evidence of progress–the not-inconsiderable numbers of remaining bigots crawled out from [...]
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Be Careful Who You Piss Off
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Random Blogging on March 21st, 2012
The Huffington Post reports that several officers of the Susan B. Komen Foundation have resigned in the wake of what can only be described as the debacle of that organization’s effort to defund Planned Parenthood. When the Foundation decided to play abortion politics at the expense of poor women who depend upon Planned Parenthood for [...]
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No Real Post Today
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Random Blogging on March 11th, 2012
There won’t be a real blog post today–I’m spring cleaning. Yesterday, my best friend told me that I’m the only person she knows who still does a full-scale, top-to-bottom spring cleaning. Maybe she’s right, but for me it is as close as I get to performing a religious ritual. Part of it is rooted in religion: [...]
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Whose “Conscience”?
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Religious Liberty on February 18th, 2012
Several Facebook friends recently posted the same cartoon: a pregnant woman lying on an examination table getting a sonogram is looking at the machine’s screen as her doctor moves the sensor over her belly. She asks “What’s that other thing in my uterus?” The doctor replies “The State of Texas.” The reference is to one [...]
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