Led by reports of zero US job growth in August, in a national context of big pushes to roll back workers’ bargaining rights, this Labor Day is signifying hard. So much to say, so much of it deeply irritating, I’m
Local Labor Ladies / Happy B’day, B!
Helen of Troy: Some of Women’s History Should Stay That Way
March is women’s history month, but this year we’re getting a special kind of history lesson. The anti-woman agenda being ram-rodded through legislatures this term is ancient. At least since Helen of Troy, our leaders have been actively denying women the right to choose how to run their private lives.
Dilma Rousseff, President of Brasil
Six female bodyguards accompany President-elect Dilma Rousseff to her swearing in in Brasilia.
Fair Pay, Fertile Future
But the two kinds of “women’s work” — the labor done outside the home (for 23 percent less pay than for men), and the bearing and rearing of the citizenry done at home (for nothing) — are entirely interdependent. Failure to pass the PFA will give women yet another reason to have fewer kids.
Cry If You Want To, Then Vote
Vote ladies! Time to stand up for our sorry selves, before we’re sorrier still.
Happy Suffrage Anniversary today
90 years of talking back to power, ladies! 162, if you’re counting since 1848. And a bit of talking before that too. Voting adds to the effect.
Thinking Globally about Adoption
Here’s a good piece on current issues in international adoption by EJ Graff, published in Democracy: The Baby Business. She advocates requiring Hague accreditation for all international adoptions (instead of only enforcing the Hague guidelines for those countries that have