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Women are Key to Economic Recovery Plans
On the eve of the G20 summit, Heather Arnet of the Women and Girls Foundation of Southwest Pennsylvania and Kavita Ramdas of the Global Fund for Women encourage the leaders attending the meeting to remember the importance of women in any economic recovery efforts....
Woman Stars in (Referee) Stripes
With her blonde hair tucked into her black referee hat, it’s relatively easy to overlook Sarah Thomas and assume that she’s just another male college football referee—only she’s not. Thomas is major college football’s only female referee. She started as many others...
The Relationship Between Oppressions: Silence Gives Consent
The unequal society that we live in runs on systems of prejudice against race, and gender; the systems are maintained and perpetuated by the domination and subordination of particular groups of people: males over females, whites over people of color. When this way of...
Violence is Never the Answer
James Pouillon, a 63-year-old man from Owosso County in Michigan, was shot and killed on Friday morning while protesting abortion across from a high school in Owosso. According to authorities, Pouillon was killed by Harlan Drake, 33, who drove up to him in a truck and...
Third Circuit Rules in Favor of Wage Equity for Women in PA
Despite the influx of women into the workforce, gender inequality persists, as this report released by the The Institute for Women's Policy Research reminds us. Men earn more than women in almost all occupations. Moreover, women earn less than men both in the ten...
