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Hollywood Writers Report 2009
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It’s no surprise to know that women writers in Hollywood have a tough time getting gigs. It’s always great to have the statistics to back up all the anecdotes. So, here are the abysmal statistics from the 2009 Hollywood Writers Report report done ...[Read on] |
Study links sport participation and opportunity for girls
| A study by Betsey Stevenson, the author of the research and an assistant professor of business and public policy at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, reveals data that indicates playing sports leads to greater educational and employment...[Read on] |
How the economy is hurting mothers
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From The New York Times:
Here's a pop quiz: Which of the following would violate federal employment law?
1. Laying off a pregnant woman.
2. Laying off a woman on maternity leave.
Pencils down. The answer is "neither."
So long as employers can make ...[Read on] |
How the economy is hurting mothers
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From The New York Times:
Here's a pop quiz: Which of the following would violate federal employment law?
1. Laying off a pregnant woman.
2. Laying off a woman on maternity leave.
Pencils down. The answer is "neither."
So long as employers can make ...[Read on] |
Chinese women now eating worms to get thin, but are they hungry an hour later?
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In areas of China where the pressure to find employment is rising, female students are also struggling with the need to stay trim. Daily Mail reports that, in order to lose weight to impress employers in job interviews, Chinese students have been resortin...[Read on] |
Economic Data on Women Show More Than Meets the Eye
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by Valerie Norton, Public Policy Fellow, National Women's Law Center
Here at the National Women’s Law Center, we make a point of looking deeper than the economic headlines because they may not capture the whole story. Last week, we wrote about how...[Read on] |
In the Heart of the Muslim World, Obama Delivers a Message to Women Everywhere
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by Debra Eichenbaum, Legal Intern, National Women's Law Center
When President Obama spoke at Cairo University last week, press outlets from around the world covered his overtures of peace and reconciliation to the Muslim world. Without doubt, it was an...[Read on] |
Economic Data Show Women Facing Continued Hardship
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By Valerie Norton, Policy FellowNew data released today by the Bureau of Labor Statistics confirms continued job loss and economic hardship – a story that has become all too familiar over the last year. Overall, unemployment rose to 9.8% and 263,000 job...[Read on] |
Tea Party Women Could Change the Score, Long Term
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(WOMENSENEWS)--It could be the way Republican billionaire Meg Whitman is spending record millions of her own money on her gubernatorial campaign in California and attracting attention to her domestic-worker employment practices.
Or maybe it's the upset v...[Read on] |
New Rules for Jobless Benefits Boon for Many Women
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(WOMENSENEWS)--Women account for 7 out of 10 workers who leave jobs because of loss of child care, relocation of a spouse or other work-family conflicts, according to recent research by the New York-based National Employment Law Project.
In the majority ...[Read on] |
A Bleak Employment Picture for Women – and Shelter from the Storm
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by Valerie Norton, Public Policy Fellow, National Women's Law Center
The unemployment data released today by the Bureau of Labor Statistics paint a bleak employment picture. The economy lost 467,000 jobs over the last month and the nation’s unemploy...[Read on] |
WPS restructuring means loss of jobs, move towards decentralization
| Women’s Professional Soccer issued a public release on Monday evening stating, “League staff has been restructured…while league marketing resources have been shifted to the team level in order to focus locally on attendance a...[Read on] |
UN: Violence Against Women Still Too Common in Afghanistan
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Latest UN human-rights report says much of the violence against women and girls is still perpetuated within the family; women working outside the home or for government especially targetedAfghanistan | Today 11:20 am
Although most women are no longer li...[Read on] |
Women & Hollywood in the Press
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Women & Hollywood is featured in Ellen Snortland’s column in the Pasadena Weekly.
I’ve been a fan of two women in particular who keep track of women and Hollywood. Melissa Silverstein publishes a weekly newsletter, “Women and Hollywood,” and blog...[Read on] |
Just Released: Gains and Losses for Women in 2008-09 Supreme Court Decisions
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National Women’s Law Center Releases New Analysis of Impact on Women
As the U.S. Supreme Court wrapped up its 2008-2009 term today, the National Women’s Law Center (NWLC) released a new analysis of several crucial decisions that demonstrate the impac...[Read on] |
The commodification of female empowerment
| Have daughters supplanted sons as the repository of hope in tough economic times?
New York Times contributor Peggy Orenstein has noticed a trend across a whole range of sectors over the last several months from big-box stores to high-end fashion to wirel...[Read on] |
Conform to Gender Norms - Or Face the Consequences
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by Fatima Goss Graves, Vice President for Education and Employment, National Women’s Law Center
Last week a principal at a high school in Waldorf, Maryland reversed her decision to ban a student from the yearbook. What conduct warranted such an ...[Read on] |
75th Anniversary of Women's Jeans
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Hailing itself as the inventor of women's jeans, Levi's celebrates the 75th anniversary of women in denim.
First introduced to male laborers in California in the 1850's, jeans became a symbol of empowerment for women as an alternative to more feminine c...[Read on] |
A Title IX Must-Read: Getting In the Game
| Hot off the press! Getting In the Game is a new book by Title IX expert Professor Debbie Brake from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. In the book, Brake examines how Title IX has affected and continues to affect many facets of college and scho...[Read on] |
NWLC Applauds Confirmation of Patricia Smith for Key Labor Department Position
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The National Women’s Law Center applauds the confirmation of Patricia Smith as the Solicitor of the Department of Labor by a vote of 60 to 37. The National Women’s Law Center (NWLC) strongly supported Ms. Smith’s nomination.
“The National Women...[Read on] |
Academics Put Japan's Hostess Culture in Context
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Check out this interesting round up of responses to the controversial New York Times article on Japan's hostess culture. In the original article, the following phenomenon was explored:
with that line of work, called hostessing, among the most lucrative j...[Read on] |
The Right Side of History
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by Fatima Goss Graves, Vice President for Education and Employment, National Women's Law Center
I had the pleasure of attending the White House Middle Class Task Force event, where the Equal Pay Enforcement Task Force presented its recommendation to hel...[Read on] |
Domestic violence survivor evicted for reporting abuser
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When Kathy Cleaves-Milan's live-in boyfriend abused her she did what society is always telling abused women to do: she reported him to the police. And what did she get for bravely doing "the right thing?" She go evicted.
A day after she told police tha...[Read on] |
Give the Public What it Wants—Pass the Paycheck Fairness Act
| by Fatima Goss Graves, Vice President for Education and Employment, National Women's Law Center
President Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act into law on June 10, 1963, making it illegal for employers to pay unequal wages to men and women who perform ...[Read on] |
New Research: Women fare better in the indie movie world
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File this under no shit sherlock, but new research from the Center for Study for Women in Television and Film at San Diego State shows that women are more represented on independent films that appear in film festivals than in the top grossing big budget f...[Read on] |
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