By Lauren Tetenbaum
Last week, New York Governor David Paterson directed all state agencies to revise their policies and regulations to recognize same-sex marriages performed in other jurisdictions. It’s about time New York made such a stride.
As a native Manhattanite, New York State laws frequently strike me as bizarre. From the race-biased Rockefeller drug […]
Posted on June 18th, 2008 by Lauren Tetenbaum
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The following article has been published in May issue of First Line Magazine:
By Portia Stewart, Editor, FirstLine
He’s watching you. You can’t concentrate, you’re afraid to be alone with him, and the comments won’t stop. Sexual harassment can be relentless, consuming your work and your life. It happened to these women—and it could happen to you. […]
Posted on June 17th, 2008 by Jack Tuckner, Esq.
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Krista Errickson has refused to be a mere addition to the ever growing statistics related to pregnancy discrimination at American workplace.
Instead, she has filed a lawsuit against her former employer Faye Wattleton. Ironically, Wattleton represents a non-profit working in the sphere of women’s rights, Center for the Advancement of Women.
Jack Tuckner, who represents […]
Posted on May 22nd, 2008 by Saswat Pattanayak
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Today is being observed as Equal Pay Day (the point in 2008 when the average woman’s wages finally catch up with what the average man earned in 2007). As ceremonious as it may sound, its apt to look at the statistics once again with hope and protest.
Women in the US, working full-time, year-round earn […]
Posted on April 18th, 2008 by Saswat Pattanayak
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The blog entry can be found here.
Posted on April 16th, 2008 by Saswat Pattanayak
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‘Learned the degree of pain’ from community
Todd A. Heywood writes for Between The Lines News - Issue 1615
Joe Solmonese, president of the Human Rights Campaign in Washington D.C., told BTL last week that he and his organization stood by their decision to support a non-inclusive Employment Non-Discrimination Act bill on the House floor, but […]
Posted on April 10th, 2008 by Saswat Pattanayak
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Very informative, and authoritative. Deborah Kotz writes about Pregnancy, Your Weight, and Your Job on US News
Are you planning to get pregnant in the near future? How would I have responded if my prospective boss had asked me this some 13 years ago during a job interview for a medical journal? I did, in fact, […]
Posted on April 10th, 2008 by Saswat Pattanayak
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Not really strange that Morning Joe found the pregnant transgender man “disgusting”. What is more bothersome is that the anchors were visibly so upset at the news and so absolutely unbelievably shocked that one must cease to wonder why the country is truly headed in wrong direction (81% of Americans believe so, according to latest […]
Posted on April 9th, 2008 by Saswat Pattanayak
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Posted on April 9th, 2008 by Saswat Pattanayak
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Yasmin Nair asks some critical questions regarding transgender rights and apparent obligations in our bourgeois society. In Windy City Times.
Thomas Beatie, a transgender man who has retained his female reproductive organs and is six months pregnant, recently appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show.
Let me be clear at the outset: I support Beatie’s decision. I also […]
Posted on April 9th, 2008 by Saswat Pattanayak
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