women's equality

In 1968 Phillip Morris launched a brand and marketing campaign targeting women... for death-- Virginia Slims: "You've come a long way, baby," which later morphed into "It's a woman thing." Women HAVE come a long way since then, a very, very long way. And women have more real economic and political power now than ever in recorded history. When a clown like Jeb Bush comes out and declares, in public, that unwed mothers should be publicly shamed, women count that against him.

Apparently she can't in Owensville, Ohio, where her school principal ordered the T-shirt Photoshopped out.

NYT caption: "Pope Francis met with a delegation from the Leadership Conference of Women Religious at the Vatican on Thursday. Pool photo by L'Osservatore Romano""Women are not capable, in the Vatican's mind, of governing others or even themselves. Is it any wonder so many nuns have left the orders or avoided joining them?

Peggy Young with her daughter Triniti, now seven

Maine Republican Susan Collins makes $174,000 a year, along with great retirement and health benefits-- the same as the boys make. And that's the way it should be. But yesterday Collins, a millionaire, joined the Republican Party filibuster seeking to prevent a simple up-or-down vote on Barbara Mikulski's Paycheck Fairness Act, S.2199.

Study: Wisconsin Republicans fear and loathe women even more than other Republicans doToday is the twentieth anniversary of Joe Biden's Violence Against Women Act, signed by Presdient Clinton on September 13, 1994.

You probably missed the article in the Daily Mail, a bottom tier London tabloid, about how rich boys are more competitive than girls. In a Norwegian study of 15 year olds shows that "boys really are more competitive than girls...

This week, Senate Republicans were unanimous in their opposition to Barbara Mikulski's equal pay for women legislation. It was filibustered by the Republicans and an attempt at cloture failed 53-44.

We don't talk about female genital mutilation in public. It's rude-- but, so is DWT, so let's take a look, since it is in the news today. More on that in a moment. The World Health Organization defines the practice of female genital mutilation as "all procedures that involve partial or total removal of the external female genitalia, or other injury to the female genital organs for non-medical reasons." It's a barbaric throwback to a time when women were property and it is practiced all over the Third World.

Boehner was so proud yesterday that he picked a girl to give one of the god-knows-how-many "official" Republican responses to the State of the Union message. He seems delusional enough to think that women voters will flock to the GOP because he named some obscure woman congressmember from rural northeast Washington who votes with the Republican patriarchs on everything.