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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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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365Gay.com reports that Detroit has become the latest city to ban discrimination on the basis of gender identity.
The City council has voted 8-1 to amend the city’s nondiscrimination ordinance which already bars discrimination against lesbians and gays.
“The passage of this human rights ordinance is a great positive step forward for the City and [...]
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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By Erin Kodilanen
A new labor law states that as of August 15, 2007 nursing mothers may express breast milk at work. This allows pumping, not breast feeding your child at work, up to, but not exceeding three years after the child’s birth. Article 206-c of the New York State labor law states:
“206-c. Right of [...]
Posted on April 3rd, 2008 by Erin Kodilanen
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The EEOC partnered with Wynton Marsalis and New York’s Jazz at Lincoln Center to produce two public service announcements (PSAs) on workplace discrimination. Each of the 30-second spots aims to increase recognition and reporting of race discrimination at work by making viewers aware that it is against the law.
To view the PSAs, go to: http://www.eeoc.gov/psa/marsalis.html
Both [...]
Posted on February 18th, 2008 by Saswat Pattanayak
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