FOR WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH, every March
Open this url to view a lovely synopsis of the run-up to suffrage for women in 1920 after 50 years!
http://www.herstoryscrapbook.com/index.htm
What it doesn't go into is the widespread anticipation, then, of the easy passage of the Equal Rights Amendment. Didn't happen. Still hasn't, AFTER 90 years, 40 years after the 19th Amendment, suffrage!
Tell us what we are doing wrong, please?
sandyo, ERA Inc
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Sunday, March 7, 2010
WAL-MART in KY SettlesSmall Suit (NOT the HUGE one still pending)
Equal Rights Alliance Wants to Know WHEN the Huge, WORLD'S BIGGEST SEX DISCRIMINATION CASE will be settled! THEN let us know! Scroll down..
According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, Walmart’s
Excluding women from employment or excluding them from certain positions because of gender violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
The consent decree settling the suit, entered by the court on March 1, 2010, requires Walmart to provide order filler jobs, as they become available, to eligible and interested female class members, as determined by a claims administrator. Walmart will fill the first 50 available order filler positions with female class members. For the next 50 positions, female class members will be offered every other job. Thereafter, every third position will be offered to female class members.
“Forty-plus years after the passage of the Equal Pay Act and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, far too many employers are still blatantly excluding women from particular jobs, segregating their workforces on the basis of sex, and denying women equal pay for equal work,” said Acting EEOC Chairman Stuart J. Ishimaru. “Let this major settlement serve as a warning: Employers must stop engaging in these outdated and sexist practices, or they will face severe legal consequences.”
[Ed. Not severe enough for us. Not until there's an ERA and the consequences will be based on violating the UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION. YYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY !]
Pursuant to the consent decree, Walmart has agreed not to discriminate against females in hiring for order filler positions and not to retaliate against applicants or employees who exercise their rights, complain about discrimination or assist in an investigation or discrimination-related proceeding. Walmart will post a notice of non-discrimination at its warehouse facilities in
A settlement administrator will distribute the proceeds to eligible class members. Walmart has agreed to pay the first $250,000 of the administration costs.
Indianapolis EEOC Senior Trial Attorney
Louisville EEOC Senior Trial Attorney Aimee McFerren added, “It is satisfying to know that the EEOC’s efforts will allow the women in eastern
According to company information, Bentonville, Ark.-based Walmart serves customers and members more than 200 million times per week at more than 8,416 retail units under 53 different banners in 15 countries. With fiscal year 2009 sales of $401 billion, Walmart employs more than 2.1 million associates worldwide.
Class members will be contacted by the Settlement Administrator. Updated information on the settlement will be available on the EEOC v. Wal-Mart information line (317) 226-5485.
Friday, March 5, 2010
Women are Human, Not Vestal Virgins
When a Woman Goes Bad, She Can go as Bad as a Man
[Editor SandyO: We are not subjective about bad conduct, whether by male or female. So you will have all sides reported here. We will just wait for the results of the military investigation.] Here's the story reported by several media sources.
http://www.time.
[Editor SandyO: We are not subjective about bad conduct, whether by male or female. So you will have all sides reported here. We will just wait for the results of the military investigation.] Here's the story reported by several media sources.
http://www.time.
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
Pres. Obama Launches Cabinet Council for Women,Girls 3/2009
March 11, 2009 - Washington, D.C.
Its purpose is very simple: to ensure that each of the agencies in which they're charged takes into account the needs of women and girls in the policies they draft, the programs they create, the legislation they support.”
Obama Announces New White House Council on Women and Girls
Speech Transcript
PRESIDENT OBAMA: Hello.
(APPLAUSE)
Thank you. Thank you very much.
Please, have a seat.
(APPLAUSE)
Thank you. Thank you so much.
Well, today, as we continue our celebration of International Women's History Month, I'm proud to sign this executive order established the women's -- the White House Council on Women and Girls.
It's a council with a mission that dates back to our founding, to fulfill the promise of our democracy for all our people. I sign this order not just as a president, but as a son, a grandson, the husband and a father. Because growing up, I saw my mother put herself through school and follow her passion for helping others. But I also saw how she struggled to raise me and my sister on her own, worrying about how she'd pay the bills and educate herself and provide for us.
I saw my grandmother work, you know, work her way up to become one of the first women bank vice presidents in the state of Hawaii, but also saw how she hit a glass ceiling, how men no more qualified than she was kept moving up the corporate ladder ahead of her.
I've seen Michelle, the rock of the Obama family, juggling work and parenting with more skill and grace than anybody that I know. But I also saw how it tore at her at times, how sometimes when she was with the girls she was worrying about work and when she was at work she was worrying about the girls. It's a feeling that I share everyday.
In so many ways, the stories of the women in my life reflect the broader story of women in this country: The story of both unyielding progress and also, untapped potential.
Today, women make up a growing share of our workforce and the majority of students in our colleges and our law schools. Women are breaking barriers in every field, from science and business to athletics and the armed forces. Women are serving at the highest levels of my administration, and we have Madam Speaker presiding over our House of Representatives.
(APPLAUSE)
I had the privilege of participating in a historic campaign with a historic candidate who we now have the privilege of calling Madam Secretary.
But at the same time, when women still earn just 78 cents for every dollar men make, when one in four women still experiences domestic violence in their lifetimes, when women are more than half of our population but just 17 percent of our Congress, when women are 49 percent of the workforce but only 3 percent of our Fortune 500 CEOs, when these inequalities stubbornly persist in this country, in this century, then I think we need to ask ourselves some hard questions.
OBAMA: I think we need to take a hard look at where we're falling short and who we're leaving out, and what that means for the prosperity and the vitality of our nation.
And I want to be very clear: These issues are not just women's issues. When women make less than men for the same work, it hurts families who find themselves with less income and have to work harder just to get by.
When a job doesn't offer family leave, that also hurts men who want to help care for a new baby or an ailing parent. When there's no affordable child care, that hurts children who wind up in second-rate care, or spending afternoons alone in front of the television set.
And when any of our citizens cannot fulfill their potential because of factors that have nothing to do with their talent, their character, their work ethic, that says something about the state of our democracy. It says something about whether we're honoring those words put on paper more than two centuries ago; whether we're doing our part, like generations before us, to breath new life into them in our time.
That, above all, is the true purpose of our government, not to guarantee our success but to ensure that in America all things are still possible for all people; not to solve all our problems, but to ensure that we all have the chance to pursue our own version of happiness; to give our daughters the chance to achieve as greatly as the women who join us today.
That's the impact our government can have. It's the impact of a Health and Human Services Department that funds research by women like Dr. Nina Fedorhoff, a biotechnology and life science pioneer...
(APPLAUSE)
... who won the National Medal of Science in 2006.
OBAMA: It's the impact a Defense Department that works to recruit and promote women -- women so that women like Sergeant Major Michelle Jones (ph), who is the Army's highest ranking enlisted woman before she retired, can strengthen our military with their leadership.
(APPLAUSE)
It's the impact the Department of Education that enforce Title 9 so athletes like...
(APPLAUSE)
... so athletes like Olympic Gold medalist Dominique Dawes and Lisa Leslie...
(APPLAUSE)
... have a level playing field to compete and to win.
(APPLAUSE)
It's the impact of the White House and the Congress that fight for legislation like the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Restoration Act so that all women can get paid what they deserve.
(APPLAUSE)
I'm very proud, this was the very first bill that I signed into law. And that's why I'm establishing this council, not just to continue efforts like these, but to enhance them. The council will be composed of the heads of every Cabinet and Cabinet-level agency and will meet on a regular basis.
We have many of those Cabinet members here. Some of the men showed up. We put them in the second row.
(LAUGHTER)
But they're going to be fighting...
(APPLAUSE)
They're going to be part of this council. And it's going to meet on a regular basis. Its purpose is very simple: to ensure that each of the agencies in which they're charged takes into account the needs of women and girls in the policies they draft, the programs they create, the legislation they support.
It's not enough to only have individual women's office at individual agencies or only have one office in the White House. Rather, as former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright once said, in our government, responsibility for the advancement of women is not the job of any one agency, it's the job of all of them.
(APPLAUSE)
And she should know. She helped lead an inter agency women's initiative during the Clinton administration.
At the same time, given the critical importance of its work, this council must have strong leadership from the White House and direct accountability to me. And that's why I'm appointed Valerie Jarrett, one of my closest advisers and most senior members of my administration, to lead it. Tina Chen, another senior member of my White House staff will serve as the council's executive director.
In the end, while many of the challenges women and girls face are new, the work of this council is not. It's been with us for generation. Francis Perkins, who was President Franklin Roosevelt's secretary of labor and the first woman to serve in the cabinet, a great hero of the New Deal, described it well when she said, "I had a kind of duty to other women to walk in and sit down on the chair that was offered and so establish the rights of others long-hence and far distant in geography to sit in high seats."
To sit in the high seats. That is why I'm standing here. Because of what my mother and grandmother did for me. Because of their hard work and sacrifice and unflagging love. That's what Michelle's doing right now, thinking everyday about making sure that Malia and Sascha have the same opportunities as anybody's sons do.
That's why so many of us are here today; because of the women who came before us who were determined to see us sit in the high seats. Women who reached for the ballot and raised families and traveled long, lonely roads to be the first in the boardroom or in the courtroom or on the battle field or in the factory floor. Women who cracked and shattered those glass ceilings so that my daughters -- and all of our sons and daughters -- could dream and little bigger and reach a little higher.
So, now it's up to us to carry that work forward; to ensure that our daughters and granddaughters have no limits on their dreams, no obstacles to their achievements. And that they have opportunities their mothers and grandmothers and great-grandmothers never dreamed of.
That's the purpose of this council. Those are the priorities of my presidency, and I look forward to working with all of you to fulfill them in the months and years to come.
All right, so I'm going to go sign this thing. Thank you very much.
(APPLAUSE)
END
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March 11, 2009 - Washington, D.C.
Its purpose is very simple: to ensure that each of the agencies in which they're charged takes into account the needs of women and girls in the policies they draft, the programs they create, the legislation they support.”
Obama Announces New White House Council on Women and Girls
Speech Transcript
PRESIDENT OBAMA: Hello.
(APPLAUSE)
Thank you. Thank you very much.
Please, have a seat.
(APPLAUSE)
Thank you. Thank you so much.
Well, today, as we continue our celebration of International Women's History Month, I'm proud to sign this executive order established the women's -- the White House Council on Women and Girls.
It's a council with a mission that dates back to our founding, to fulfill the promise of our democracy for all our people. I sign this order not just as a president, but as a son, a grandson, the husband and a father. Because growing up, I saw my mother put herself through school and follow her passion for helping others. But I also saw how she struggled to raise me and my sister on her own, worrying about how she'd pay the bills and educate herself and provide for us.
I saw my grandmother work, you know, work her way up to become one of the first women bank vice presidents in the state of Hawaii, but also saw how she hit a glass ceiling, how men no more qualified than she was kept moving up the corporate ladder ahead of her.
I've seen Michelle, the rock of the Obama family, juggling work and parenting with more skill and grace than anybody that I know. But I also saw how it tore at her at times, how sometimes when she was with the girls she was worrying about work and when she was at work she was worrying about the girls. It's a feeling that I share everyday.
In so many ways, the stories of the women in my life reflect the broader story of women in this country: The story of both unyielding progress and also, untapped potential.
Today, women make up a growing share of our workforce and the majority of students in our colleges and our law schools. Women are breaking barriers in every field, from science and business to athletics and the armed forces. Women are serving at the highest levels of my administration, and we have Madam Speaker presiding over our House of Representatives.
(APPLAUSE)
I had the privilege of participating in a historic campaign with a historic candidate who we now have the privilege of calling Madam Secretary.
But at the same time, when women still earn just 78 cents for every dollar men make, when one in four women still experiences domestic violence in their lifetimes, when women are more than half of our population but just 17 percent of our Congress, when women are 49 percent of the workforce but only 3 percent of our Fortune 500 CEOs, when these inequalities stubbornly persist in this country, in this century, then I think we need to ask ourselves some hard questions.
OBAMA: I think we need to take a hard look at where we're falling short and who we're leaving out, and what that means for the prosperity and the vitality of our nation.
And I want to be very clear: These issues are not just women's issues. When women make less than men for the same work, it hurts families who find themselves with less income and have to work harder just to get by.
When a job doesn't offer family leave, that also hurts men who want to help care for a new baby or an ailing parent. When there's no affordable child care, that hurts children who wind up in second-rate care, or spending afternoons alone in front of the television set.
And when any of our citizens cannot fulfill their potential because of factors that have nothing to do with their talent, their character, their work ethic, that says something about the state of our democracy. It says something about whether we're honoring those words put on paper more than two centuries ago; whether we're doing our part, like generations before us, to breath new life into them in our time.
That, above all, is the true purpose of our government, not to guarantee our success but to ensure that in America all things are still possible for all people; not to solve all our problems, but to ensure that we all have the chance to pursue our own version of happiness; to give our daughters the chance to achieve as greatly as the women who join us today.
That's the impact our government can have. It's the impact of a Health and Human Services Department that funds research by women like Dr. Nina Fedorhoff, a biotechnology and life science pioneer...
(APPLAUSE)
... who won the National Medal of Science in 2006.
OBAMA: It's the impact a Defense Department that works to recruit and promote women -- women so that women like Sergeant Major Michelle Jones (ph), who is the Army's highest ranking enlisted woman before she retired, can strengthen our military with their leadership.
(APPLAUSE)
It's the impact the Department of Education that enforce Title 9 so athletes like...
(APPLAUSE)
... so athletes like Olympic Gold medalist Dominique Dawes and Lisa Leslie...
(APPLAUSE)
... have a level playing field to compete and to win.
(APPLAUSE)
It's the impact of the White House and the Congress that fight for legislation like the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Restoration Act so that all women can get paid what they deserve.
(APPLAUSE)
I'm very proud, this was the very first bill that I signed into law. And that's why I'm establishing this council, not just to continue efforts like these, but to enhance them. The council will be composed of the heads of every Cabinet and Cabinet-level agency and will meet on a regular basis.
We have many of those Cabinet members here. Some of the men showed up. We put them in the second row.
(LAUGHTER)
But they're going to be fighting...
(APPLAUSE)
They're going to be part of this council. And it's going to meet on a regular basis. Its purpose is very simple: to ensure that each of the agencies in which they're charged takes into account the needs of women and girls in the policies they draft, the programs they create, the legislation they support.
It's not enough to only have individual women's office at individual agencies or only have one office in the White House. Rather, as former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright once said, in our government, responsibility for the advancement of women is not the job of any one agency, it's the job of all of them.
(APPLAUSE)
And she should know. She helped lead an inter agency women's initiative during the Clinton administration.
At the same time, given the critical importance of its work, this council must have strong leadership from the White House and direct accountability to me. And that's why I'm appointed Valerie Jarrett, one of my closest advisers and most senior members of my administration, to lead it. Tina Chen, another senior member of my White House staff will serve as the council's executive director.
In the end, while many of the challenges women and girls face are new, the work of this council is not. It's been with us for generation. Francis Perkins, who was President Franklin Roosevelt's secretary of labor and the first woman to serve in the cabinet, a great hero of the New Deal, described it well when she said, "I had a kind of duty to other women to walk in and sit down on the chair that was offered and so establish the rights of others long-hence and far distant in geography to sit in high seats."
To sit in the high seats. That is why I'm standing here. Because of what my mother and grandmother did for me. Because of their hard work and sacrifice and unflagging love. That's what Michelle's doing right now, thinking everyday about making sure that Malia and Sascha have the same opportunities as anybody's sons do.
That's why so many of us are here today; because of the women who came before us who were determined to see us sit in the high seats. Women who reached for the ballot and raised families and traveled long, lonely roads to be the first in the boardroom or in the courtroom or on the battle field or in the factory floor. Women who cracked and shattered those glass ceilings so that my daughters -- and all of our sons and daughters -- could dream and little bigger and reach a little higher.
So, now it's up to us to carry that work forward; to ensure that our daughters and granddaughters have no limits on their dreams, no obstacles to their achievements. And that they have opportunities their mothers and grandmothers and great-grandmothers never dreamed of.
That's the purpose of this council. Those are the priorities of my presidency, and I look forward to working with all of you to fulfill them in the months and years to come.
All right, so I'm going to go sign this thing. Thank you very much.
(APPLAUSE)
END
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Tuesday, March 2, 2010
From The Source, Article on The Military's Progress in Preventing, Stopping, Curing Sexual Assaults (most against serviceWOMEN) .
In the process of explaining what's being done and not being done yet in view of the entrenched mores and norms and beliefs about sexual assault, there is this phrase which could be taken to apply the same challenge to passing the ERA. Message from ERA Inc: Bear up, Florida is almost THERE! Pitch in now, while ERA still has Go-Power from Girl-Power, as we approach THE TIPPING POINT of ten years of work--
"Research suggests that changing attitudes, behaviors, and beliefs takes eight to ten years. " We, in the states, are just about THERE! So , hang on for The Big Ride!
Reminder to ALL, if you REALLY want an ERA:
It's time for you to put everything else down and urge Florida House Speaker Cretul to :
"Hold hearings on HCR 8003, the ERA bill. Stand up for your constituents--they WANT ERA."
Visit local District office, get appointment, p
hone and email saying the same thing. Do it if you want an ERA this year:Gainesville (352 955-6407) or Ocala (352 873-6564) or Tallahassee (850 488-0887)
Do it !!!!!!
Snail address:
Speaker Cretul
420 The Capitol
402 So. Monroe St
Tallahassee, FL 32399
Phone: 850 488-1450
Email: larry.cretul@myfloridahouse.gov
Do it NOW
Thanks IMMENSELY for this most important action for ERA! xx sandyo
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
SERVICEWOMEN TO BE ASSIGNED TO SUBS, COMBAT !
By ANNE GEARAN
The Associated Press
Tuesday, February 23, 2010; 4:46 PM
WASHINGTON -- The Pentagon has moved to lift a decades-old policy that prohibits women from serving aboard Navy submarines, part of a gradual reconsideration of women's roles in a military fighting two wars whose front lines can be anywhere.
At issue is the end of a policy that kept women from serving aboard the last type of ship off-limits to them. The thinking was that the close quarters aboard subs would make coed service difficult to manage.
Defense Secretary Robert Gates notified Congress in a letter signed Friday that the Navy intends to repeal the ban on women sailors on subs. Congress has 30 days to weigh in.
"He supports the Navy's efforts to change their policy," Pentagon press secretary Geoff Morrell said Tuesday.
A defense official told The Associated Press that numerous physical changes to submarines would have to be made, but that cadets who graduate from the Naval Academy this year could be among the first Navy women to take submarine posts.
The change was first reported by ABC News.
The official spoke on condition of anonymity because Congress has not yet had a chance to consider the Navy's recommendations.
The Navy's plan would phase in women's service, beginning with officers aboard the larger subs that are easier to retrofit for coed quarters. Women would never serve solo.
Because of the length of time required for training, it would be more than a year before the first women joined subs, assuming Congress raises no major objections that slow the schedule.
Women began serving aboard the Navy's surface ships in 1993.
Since then, many of the distinctions between who is in combat and who is not have been erased.
Women are formally banned from combat posts in the Army, for instance, but routinely serve in jobs such as medics, pilots and drivers that place them shoulder to shoulder with men serving in "combat" jobs.
Army Chief of Staff Gen. George Casey told Congress on Tuesday that he supports a reconsideration of women's combat roles.
"I believe it's time that we take a look at what women are actually doing in Iraq and Afghanistan. And then we take a look at our policies," Casey told the Senate Armed Services Committee. While no organized effort is under way, "I think it's time," he added.
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Why hasn't ERA passed in Florida, and thus, the Nation?
ERA has yet to be ratified/voted for by the Florida legislature though almost all the other required states have ratified. Florida and 2 states are holding them hostage! Florida Senate committees pass it now and then, but the House has refused for NINE SOLID YEARS even to give ERA a hearing! YOU can make it happen, see below. Pop back here to see the results.
FLORIDA'S SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE, Rep. Larry Cretul, stands as The Barrier to Florida's ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment. Each Speaker has done that for the past NINE years. YOU can change his mind in 2010!! Legislative Session starts in March. Let's make sure that the House of Representatives KNOWS why they must make sure this year to co-sponsor HCR 8003!
Why?
Because ERA benefits Everyone, man and woman alike, as well as the economy. Because there is no "down side", no strings attached. Floridians clearly want the ERA passed. Because ERA REQUIRES NO FUNDING. And most of ALL--because COSPONSORING THE ERA WILL GAIN VOTES FOR THEM!
Here's where YOU come in...for little or no-cost, and about 3 minutes of your time...YOU can make all the difference in 2010:
Representative Cretul calls the shots in Florida. Make sure that he SURELY knows that ERA is watching.
Call him today and through March via the following numbers. Urge him to" stop stalling on the ERA bill HCR 8003, get it agendaed and heard in committee early"!
The Leg. Session approaches. Come back here for rapid updates and to www.RatifyERAflorida.net for more info. Thanks, SandyO
ERA has yet to be ratified/voted for by the Florida legislature though almost all the other required states have ratified. Florida and 2 states are holding them hostage! Florida Senate committees pass it now and then, but the House has refused for NINE SOLID YEARS even to give ERA a hearing! YOU can make it happen, see below. Pop back here to see the results.
FLORIDA'S SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE, Rep. Larry Cretul, stands as The Barrier to Florida's ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment. Each Speaker has done that for the past NINE years. YOU can change his mind in 2010!! Legislative Session starts in March. Let's make sure that the House of Representatives KNOWS why they must make sure this year to co-sponsor HCR 8003!
Why?
Because ERA benefits Everyone, man and woman alike, as well as the economy. Because there is no "down side", no strings attached. Floridians clearly want the ERA passed. Because ERA REQUIRES NO FUNDING. And most of ALL--because COSPONSORING THE ERA WILL GAIN VOTES FOR THEM!
Here's where YOU come in...for little or no-cost, and about 3 minutes of your time...YOU can make all the difference in 2010:
Representative Cretul calls the shots in Florida. Make sure that he SURELY knows that ERA is watching.
Call him today and through March via the following numbers. Urge him to" stop stalling on the ERA bill HCR 8003, get it agendaed and heard in committee early"!
Ocala office--352 873-6564; Gainesville--352 955-6407; Tallahassee--850 955-6407.
Start calling ASAP thru March. I'm heading to Tallahassee with our volunteer lobbyists to do business with him face to face, so pave the way for us by calling, calling, calling. MANY THANKS for this MOST IMPORTANT WORK for ERA!
The Leg. Session approaches. Come back here for rapid updates and to www.RatifyERAflorida.net for more info. Thanks, SandyO
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