The night my church opened its 10-bed homeless shelter for 18-to-24-year-olds, I volunteered to supervise them. A novice to any kind of shelter experience, I was nervous as I dragged my red cart with pillow and blanket to the church, and grateful that Mina, an elegant, 70-something social worker, also would be there.
Six young people [...]
Posted on July 28th, 2008 by Saswat Pattanayak
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The macho man image is dying in the workplace.
Tresa Baldas writes in The National Law Journal
Employment and family law attorneys say a growing number of men are filing a wide variety of workplace lawsuits, suing over everything from more leave time to care for their children to sexual harassment.
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission notes that [...]
Posted on July 28th, 2008 by Saswat Pattanayak
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An embarrassing question from a boy in a locker room inspired Karen Deamons to fight the city: Why was there a woman in the men’s room?
Deamons decided last month she would no longer abide by Cleveland’s requirement that she change in the men’s locker room at the indoor pool at the city-run Cudell Recreation Center. [...]
Posted on July 27th, 2008 by Saswat Pattanayak
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Michigan women with health insurance can find themselves paying up to $65 a month for a prescription to prevent an unwanted pregnancy. Meanwhile, their insured male counterparts can pick up a free prescription for Viagra.
Alexa Stanard writes:
Michigan is one of 23 states that doesn’t require insurance companies to cover birth control pills. However, Viagra and [...]
Posted on July 23rd, 2008 by Saswat Pattanayak
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By Samantha McLane
“The personal is political†was the mantra for the feminist movement in the 60’s, and currently it is a phrase that continues encouraging reflection and action on current issues regarding gender, politics, and the demands for a better society. In this new century, we women have new challenges; we have defeated many obstacles [...]
Posted on July 16th, 2008 by Samantha Mc Lane
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One of our former clients, Lisa Brockington, whose sex discrimination case we championed to a successful conclusion against her previous employer before she began working for us as a legal intern and then as an employee, recently brought an outrageous and malicious “sexual harassment†lawsuit against our Women’s Rights in the Workplace law firm (TSWS) [...]
Posted on July 9th, 2008 by TSWS
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