The US National Committee for UNIFEM and the National Council for Research on Women Join Forces on a National Conference to Promote Efforts Aimed at Ending Violence against Women. The conference is a collaborative initiative between two preeminent organizations working towards ending this global pandemic.
The US National Committee for the United Nations Development Fund for [...]
Dorchen Leidholdt and Jane Manning contribute to New York Times OP-Ed to demand for a statute which will recognize choking as a crime whether or not physical injury is evident.
By DORCHEN LEIDHOLDT and JANE MANNING
NEW YORKERS have heard a stream of grave accusations this week that our governor tried to obstruct a domestic assault [...]
ABC News reports on Jennifer Paviglianiti’s charges of discrimination with the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC).
Bartender in Topless Bar Says She Was Discriminated Against for Being Pregnant
By MARY KATHRYN BURKE and BRENNAN MCCORD
When Jennifer Paviglianiti, 29, of Centereach, N.Y., discovered she was pregnant, she hoped to wait until the three-month mark to tell [...]
DAREH GREGORIAN reports in NY Post
A wealthy Upper East Side couple harassed their gay house manager, even making him work out of the room where the family’s pig once lived, court papers charge.
In his Manhattan Supreme Court suit, William Gamble says Lisa Maria Falcone, wife of hedge-fund billionaire Philip Falcone, subjected him to homophobic comments [...]
Female Employees Sue Gym Over Alleged Sex Harassment
Five women slapped a New York City gym with a lawsuit Wednesday, claiming they were suddenly fired after complaining about sexual harassment they endured from a male manager.
The employees – who worked at Battery Park Swim and Fitness – claim they were each fired, one by one, within [...]
Claims Sexual Harassment, Anti-Muslim Discrimination
By John Slattery for CBS
A female employee of a Manhattan publishing company has filed suit, claiming a very hostile work enviornment. She said she was targeted because she’s a woman and a Muslim.
Nona Abdelrehim, 26, said the magazine firm she works for was like “Animal House,” a sort of jock [...]
Lobna Abdelrehim sues ‘animal house’ publishing company, GDS International, for sexual harrassment
NY Daily News
BY JOSE MARTINEZ
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Tuesday, November 24th 2009, 6:02 PM
A shapely 26-year-old stunner is suing her employer for sex discrimination, portraying the publishing firm as a “Mad Men”-era artifact that’s overheated by a “jock fraternity culture.”
Lobna Abdelrehim, a manager at GDS [...]
New York Times :: CAREER COUCH
(A version of this article appeared in print on November 22, 2009, on page BU10 of the New York Times, New York edition.)
Expecting a Baby, but Not the Stereotypes
By EILENE ZIMMERMAN
Published: November 21, 2009
Q. You recently became pregnant and expect to continue working through the pregnancy and after maternity leave. [...]
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Women’s Rights attorney and women’s rights in the workplace advocate Jack Tuckner debates the issues.
Writer Barbara Berg talks Sexism in America: Alive, Well, And Ruining Our Future. What went wrong with the women’s movement and how to fix it.
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