Tag Archives: Women and politics

Three female Iraq War vets running for Congress, are all around amazing and bad-ass women

By Vaidehi Joshi | Published: August 24, 2012
Tweet A SYTYCB Entry   After starting off with the ludicrous comments made by Rep. Todd Akin, it’s nice to see this week coming to a close with women stepping up to the plate — women like Tammy Duckworth, Martha McSally, and Tulsi Gabbard. Yesterday, the Associated Press reported that these three women are among “dozens of military veterans” [...]
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Gender Taxes: American Women Are $1.5 Million Poorer By Age 65

By Joseph de la Torre Dwyer | Published: May 7, 2012
TweetEvery single working day of the year, American women pay a 22.6 percent gender tax on their income.  By gender tax, I mean a negative transfer imposed upon women’s wages which reduces the wealth they control and increases the amount of time they work.  Feminists know the gender tax as the pay gap (in 2010, [...]
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Just Click On It

By Michelle Haimoff | Published: November 3, 2011
Tweet Cross posted on genfem.com I went to a screening of PBS’s “Women, War and Peace” at the Feminist Majority Foundation in Los Angeles last week, followed by a conversation between Mavis Leno, Gayle Lemmon and Katherine Spillar. It was my first feminist event in LA and I assumed the crowd wasn’t going to be [...]
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What Walmart and Brett Easton Ellis Don’t Have in Common

By Michelle Haimoff | Published: June 24, 2011
There is a base level of misogyny in corporate America that’s larger than any of the individual corporations that comprise it.
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Code Pink Women

By Summer Vega | Published: April 27, 2011
TweetWell hello from Florida, where feminism went to die. After the Uterus Banning in our state house, the sexism has moved on to the national level. Rep. Allen West from the sunshine state made some great comments according to Mother Jones and others. He told republican women at a conference that “Code Pink women” were [...]
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