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The $54 million settlement reached this week in the sex discrimination case against Morgan Stanley carries the promise of more equitable pay and promotions for other women who work at the investment banking giant.
Bush has racked up an impressive streak of federal judicial appointments and the trend could scale back women’s reproductive freedom, according to women’s groups. Some of the most controversial appointments are detailed here.
With the charges against Martha Stewart hinging on very technical readings of federal criminal law, the Queen of Domestic Living seems to be attracting an unfair share of society’s anger at corporate malfeasance.
According to women lawyers, the repression of women by the Taliban regime in Afghanistan, fundamentalist clerics in Iran and other arch-conservative rulers is not based on true Quranic teaching, but on a distorted view of Islam by men in power.