January 29, 2009 posted by Kyla Bender-Baird
FACT: “A growing number of people who have been persecuted for being transgender or transsexual have received asylum in the past few years, under the rubric of persecution on the basis of sexual orientation and/or gender… However, neither Citizenship and Immigration Services nor the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) [...]
January 28, 2009 posted by Delores M. Walters
Last week we all watched as the First Family moved into a mansion built partially by enslaved people. The inauguration of the country’s first Black president has prompted historians to fill in the void in public knowledge about the contributions of African Americans to the making of American [...]
Posted January 27, 2009 by admin
The National Women’s Law Center spoke with Lilly Ledbetter after the Senate passed the Lilly Ledbetter Act. Check out their interview:
The Senate act, coupled with the Paycheck Fairness Act—passed earlier as a separate bill by the House—will now go up for a House vote as one Fair Pay Bill. See [...]
January 23, 2009 posted by Shyama Venkateswar, Kyla Bender-Baird, and Lisa Rast
The room was filled to capacity at Demos’ latest panel for their Women’s Leadership Initiative. Women (and a few men) from all sectors joined together to discuss gender equality as an investment concept.
Anne Black from Goldman Sachs discussed their 10,000 Women initiative. The driving idea behind [...]
January 23, 2009 posted by Kyla Bender-Baird
A few weeks ago, I received a newsletter from the Institute on Community Integration . The entire issue focused on employment and women with disabilities. Given the Council’s dedication to women and economic security, my interest was instantly peaked. Check out these stats:
Roughly 21 million women (15.6% of all women) in the [...]
