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.
Filed under: Sexual Harassment, Gender Discrimination, Opinion, Media, Labor, Politics, All Posts | No Comments »
By Jack Tuckner, Esq.
As many of you know, I have recently been viciously attacked, along with the discrimination law firm which I have co-founded, Tuckner, Sipser, Weinstock & Sipser, LLP, by a former employee, Lisa Brockington.
Ms. Brockington, the person now making these despicable and false allegations against the firm in general and me in […]
Posted on June 6th, 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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By Samantha Mc Lane
Equal Pay Day is a movement that aims for the benefit of all working women in the United States without exception. However, as incredible as it is that gender inequity still persists in this century, inequity and differences remain between races, national origin and legal status. The statistics say it: Latinas earn […]
Posted on April 29th, 2008 by Samantha Mc Lane
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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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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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