Blog for Fair Pay Day
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Posted on April 16th, 2008 by Saswat Pattanayak
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Working Wounded: Confronting Sexual Harassment
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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Weight discrimination common, U.S. survey finds
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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HRC leader stands by non-inclusive ENDA decision
‘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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Pregnancy, Your Weight, and Your Job
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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Whoopi Goldberg on pregnant transgender man: ‘Uncharted waters’
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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Toyota to pay $202,000 to settle race discrimination suit
Toyota of Bowie will pay a total of $202,000 to two black men from Landover and Silver Spring to settle a race discrimination suit, said the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission on Friday.
The EEOC’s lawsuit, filed in 2005, alleges that Charles Dyer of Silver Spring was not hired for the position of sales manager or [...]
Posted on April 9th, 2008 by Saswat Pattanayak
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MSNBC’s Morning Joe is Disgusting
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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Equal Rights Unequally Distributed
Posted on April 9th, 2008 by Saswat Pattanayak
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Thomas Beatie’s pregnancy: What does it change?
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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