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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BOB ROSNER for ABC News asks to Keep Detailed Records and Don’t Be Afraid to Make a Scene
Dear WOUNDED: A co-worker says offensive things to me daily. I just don’t know how to shut him up.
ANSWER: Harassment shouldn’t be in anyone’s job description. But before we offer strategies to address harassment, we want to tell [...]
Posted on April 10th, 2008 by Saswat Pattanayak
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How common is weight discrimination? Very, as a recent survey finds:
Amy Norton writes for Reuters Health - Discrimination against the overweight may be about as prevalent as racial discrimination, the results of a survey of U.S. adults suggest.
Using data from a survey of nearly 2,300 Americans, researchers at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut found that [...]
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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PageOneQ quotes Whoopi Goldberg on pregnant transgender man
“I found them very sweet and naïve,” veteran anchor Barbara Walters says of the Beatie couple, currently expecting a child. “The greatest threat to them,” Walters adds, “is that their marriage could be taken away.”
Thomas Beatie, a transgender man, recently talked with Oprah Winfrey about his pregnancy. A [...]
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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Progressive States has an entry on how much of extended rights have we witnessed for the LGBT communities.
Even as the “culture wars” supposedly rage, the reality is that gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender rights are making slow and steady progress across the country. Gays and lesbians now have protection against workplace discrimination in [...]
Posted on April 7th, 2008 by Saswat Pattanayak
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