OnTheIssuesMagazine.com Summer 2010. EQUALITY...How much further away?

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Broadway Has A Long Way to Go, Baby by Deborah Savadge

Remember the Virginia Slims ad campaign from 40 years ago? Directed at women, it announced, "You've come a long way, Baby." Ads showed black-and-white photos of Victorian era housewives, performing menial tasks, …


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Broadway Has A Long Way to Go, Baby

Advancing Rights: 1964 Marks the Beginning of A New Era by Sonia Pressman Fuentes

On August 26, we'll be celebrating the 90th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th amendment to the U.S. Constitution, granting women the right to vote. It's a good time to review what rights women have secured …


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Gender Pay Gap Underestimates Economic Inequality by Joan Williams

The gender pay gap is standard measure of women's economic inequality. At the dawn of second-wave feminism, it was 59 cents: women earned 59 cents for every dollar men earned. Today it's up to 77 cents, according to the …


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Gender Pay Gap Underestimates Economic Inequality

Formation of Gender Identity in the Church by Rev. Rebecca Turner

Growing up in a small Missouri town Southern Baptist church in the 1960s, I recall very little being said about sex, sexuality, and gender. We didn't have sex education of any kind in my church. But I do remember that …


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"Nontraditional": A Video Makes a Car Job Seem Auto-Matic by the Editors

It's generally called "nontraditional" employment – women working in jobs that are mostly held by men. While becoming an auto mechanic may be a nontraditional career path for most women, in another sense, it was a …


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"Nontraditional": A Video Makes a Car Job Seem Auto-Matic

A Prayer for the Girl-Child by Suzanne Stutman

When I grow up
Please let me:
Be safe.
Learn to read and write.
Live with my parents
And my brothers and sisters.
Not be sold to work
As an indentured servant
Or a …


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A Prayer for the Girl-Child


 

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