Archive for May, 2009
Proposition 8 Decision
By sarah, Gender Discrimination, May 26th, 2009Today’s decision by the California Supreme Court to uphold Proposition 8 and recognize the pre-existing legal marriages of gay and lesbian couples, while expected, was disappointing. For now, same-sex couples in California must settle for a lesser commitment and legal recognition than the 18,000 couples who quickly married while the ephemeral window of equality was open for a few months last year.
Marriage is not a mere designation, as the Court describes. It is a crucial institution in our society, one that should be available to all people, regardless of the accident of who they love. If a committed couple wants to secure their relationship by marrying, they should not be denied the opportunity to do so. Domestic partnership offers many protections for couples and families, but it does…
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Supreme Court Rules Against Working Women (Again)
By cacilia, Gender Discrimination, May 20th, 2009The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber, and just yesterday, AT&T Corp. v. Hulteen, directly undermines efforts to eradicate the persistent discrimination that still plague women in the workplace. In the Hulteen case, the Supreme Court rejected (by a 7-2 vote) the arguments of four female AT&T workers and retirees who argued that the Company’s pension plan should give women who took pregnancy leave before the Pregnancy Discrimination Act (PDA) was passed in 1978 the same credit for time out of work that employees with other types of disabilities received from the Company. By so voting, the Supreme Court makes it legal for AT&T to discriminate against female employees who took maternity leave before the PDA was enacted and allows the Company to…
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Title IX comes full circle
By Vicky Barker, CWLC News, May 14th, 2009I sat with my friend Jenny Huse last weekend to watch Title IX in action at the women’s NCAA water polo championships. Jenny played for UC Santa Barbara and I played for UC San Diego in the 70s. Back then Title IX was new and women’s college water polo was just beginning to be a club sport. We were lucky to find volunteer coaches and some free pool time. Now thanks to Title IX, women’s water polo is a full scholarship sport played thoughout the country, supported by the NCAA. The championship game was even on TV!
Jenny stayed involved in water polo and coached with the Commerce, CA club team. Commerce is a working class Latina community in East Los Angeles that has a rich…
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Wife-Slapping
By helenann, CWLC News, May 12th, 2009Last weekend, a Saudi newspaper reported that a judge in Saudi Arabia ruled that husbands are allowed to slap their wives when they spend too much shopping. I’m not making this up.
Ridiculous decisions that sanction domestic violence obviously harm all Saudi citizens — men and women alike. But at a time when our government is working to undo the “us vs. them” foreign policy of the last administration and open the hearts and minds of Americans to the importance of reaching out to different cultures around the world, such antiquated and sexist rulings hardly help this important cause.
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