Toward a World that Works for Everyone
By Scott Neuman, NPR, March 13, 2020 https://www.npr.org/2020/03/13/815272925/head-of-u-s-soccer-resigns-amid-pay-dispute-with-womens-national-team Carlos Cordeiro, the president of the U.S. Soccer Federation, announced late Thursday that he was stepping down as head of the governing body after a controversial court filing in a lawsuit over equal pay for the women’s national team that appeared to disparage the athletic abilities of […]
By James Doubek, NPR, March 9, 2020 https://www.npr.org/2020/03/09/813699719/mexican-women-stay-home-to-protest-femicides-in-a-day-without-us What would happen if all the women in a country simply disappeared? Mexico got a preview Monday, when women across the country stayed home as part of a 24-hour strike to protest staggering levels of violence against women. Calling it “a day without us” or “a day […]
This one simple strategy could eliminate the gender pay gap Scott Torrey Fast Company,. March 9, 2020 https://www.fastcompany.com/90473520/this-one-simple-strategy-could-eliminate-the-gender-pay-gap Research from PayScale discovered that the gender wage gap closes completely with increased pay transparency. Here’s why. Pay equity has been making headlines recently. There was a class-action lawsuit against Nike for example. Yet research from the […]
Activists Appear Unveiled in Tehran on Women’s Day Michael Lipin, VOA Persian service, March 08, 2019 https://www.voanews.com/middle-east/voa-news-iran/activists-appear-unveiled-tehran-womens-day Small groups of Iranian women celebrated International Women’s Day by appearing publicly unveiled in Tehran and calling on Iranians to support their defiance of mandatory veiling in the Islamist nation. VOA Persian received and verified a video clip […]
Please join our Collective Meditation, with the Mother and Archangel Michael where we say “Enough” to gender violence. Collective Meditation: 8 Minutes @ 8 AM and/or PM – Holding Love and Sending Love Mexican Women to March Against Gender Violence By Associated Press, March 07, 2020 https://www.voanews.com/americas/mexican-women-march-against-gender-violence MEXICO CITY – Protests against gender violence in […]
By Jason Slotkin, NPR, March 8, 2020 https://www.npr.org/2020/03/08/813477367/international-womens-day-2020-clashes-coronavirus-and-women-prepare-to-strike Organizers and marchers have been out marking International Women’s Day. A holiday with its origins in the labor and socialist movements of the 20th century, the day now recognized by the United Nations occasions rallies and events from Caracas to Baghdad to spotlight issues facing women globally. […]
By Lisa Schlein, VOA, March 08, 2020 https://www.voanews.com/arts-culture/women-represent-one-quarter-worlds-parliamentarians GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – The number of female parliamentarians in the world has more than doubled since the groundbreaking U.N. Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, 25 years ago, the Inter-Parliamentary Union said Friday. Part of the reason may be quotas. While female representation in national parliaments […]
www.voiceoffreedom.ca In quiet protest of gender violence, many women plan a one-day retreat from public life March 9. Their temporary absence might bring permanent change. By the Monitor’s Editorial Board, Christian Science Monitor, February 27, 2020 https://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/the-monitors-view/2020/0227/Mexican-women-try-the-power-of-silence On March 9, much of Mexico will become very quiet. The silence, in fact, is meant to be […]
www.voice of freedom.ca Women in Mexico have been protesting gender violence and inequality for years. March 9th, the day after International Women’s Day, they are planning something new — mass withdrawal — not going to work for the day. This latest idea was spurred on by the violent death, February 9, of 25-year-old Ingrid Escamilla. […]
By Kylie Atwood and Jennifer Hansler, CNN, March 4, 2020 https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/04/politics/afghan-women-us-taliban-deal/index.html Washington (CNN) One of the women honored for her courage at the US State Department on Wednesday made a personal appeal to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to safeguard women’s rights in Afghanistan amid an uncertain future in the wake of the US-Taliban agreement. […]
“No women in offices or schools. No women in restaurants or stores. No women on public transportation, in cars or on the street. “A country without women, for one day. “An alliance of feminist groups in Mexico that — fueled by the rising violence against women and girls, including two horrific murders that appalled the […]
Pipeline Dispute: Ministers, Wet’suwet’en Chiefs Reach Proposed Agreement The Canadian Press, March 1, 2020 https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/pipeline-rail-blockade-agreement SMITHERS, B.C. — A Wet’suwet’en hereditary chief and senior government ministers say they have reached a proposed arrangement in a pipeline dispute that has prompted solidarity protests across Canada in recent weeks. Federal Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Carolyn Bennett and British […]
“On February 6, Unist’ot’en members watched on social media as the RCMP mounted a dramatic raid before dawn. . . arresting six people. “But rather than serving to quell the resistance, the arrests inspired a wave of solidarity protests and transportation blockades across Canada.” Elsewhere, the Pope and Greenpeace are pleading for protection of the […]
Bishop C. Andrew Doyle Texas Church to Donate $13 Million to Help Those Hurt by Their Slave-Owning, Confederate-Supporting History By Annie Reneau https://tinyurl.com/uhc6zde The first bishop elected to the Episcopal Diocese of Texas was a slave owner who pushed for loyalty to the Confederacy during the Civil War. The first church in the diocese, Christ Episcopal Church […]
This is an issue in Canada (and the UK according to my friend, Mark, on Facebook). America’s Mental Health Crisis Hidden Behind Bars “Ten psychiatrist jobs have gone unfilled for two years.” By Eric Westervelt and Liz Baker, NPR, February 25 https://www.npr.org/2020/02/25/805469776/americas-mental-health-crisis-hidden-behind-bars It’s recreation time at a Los Angeles County jail known as the Twin […]
