Commentary
Unbearable: Trump’s Travel Ban Against Women of Child-bearing Age
|
Officers are empowered with broad discretion to deny women visas to travel to the US because of their bodies and their natural ability to have babies.
discrimation
Book excerpt: 100 TIMES: A MEMOIR OF SEXISM
|
“It’s not that my life has been exceptionally plagued with sexism. It’s that it hasn’t.”
Discrimination
Transgenders in Mexico Dream of Escape
|
Puebla is one of many Mexican states where discrimination based on gender orientation is not considered a crime. Many transgenders who live here describe their efforts to leave. And how they wound up giving up.
Discrimination
40 Years Later, Newsweek Sex Discrimination Persists
|
In 1970, women at Newsweek sued the magazine on the grounds of sex discrimination, as chronicled in the book “The Good Girls Revolt.” In this excerpt, young female employees discover in 2010 that the discrimination continued, despite the lawsuit.
Work
Immigrant Entrepreneurs Take the Lead
|
Immigrant women are starting all kinds of businesses in the United States and leading American-born counterparts, a new report finds. Authors also find they face barriers and encourage policies to ease the way for this energized group of job creators.
Arts & Culture
Trans People in Nepal Live Without Citizenship
|
Nepal’s Supreme Court ruling deemed homosexual and transgender people equal citizens in Nepal, yet many sexual minorities are still without citizenship certificates, limiting their opportunities. Here’s one woman’s story.
Work
Welfare Job Rules Hit Women With Disabilities
|
Petra Rodriguez lost her welfare benefits when she injured her back and couldn’t keep her welfare work assignment. A Legal Aid lawyer says situations like hers help explain why the rolls have dropped–people are just discouraged from applying.
Arts & Culture
Four Bills in Congress Aim to Limit Anti-Gay Bias
|
Four bills designed to curb discrimination based on sexual orientation are pending in Congress. Some advocates are hopeful, but others are more wary about hostile lawmakers and a lack of leadership by President Obama.
Politics
Philadelphia Shows the Way to Slow Foreclosures
|
Programs to curb foreclosures could have a disproportionate benefit for female homeowners. A Chicago Reporter gender analysis of mortgage data conducted for Women’s eNews finds female borrowers almost twice as likely to hold subprime loans.
Arts & Culture
Women’s Credit Profiling Called Costly, Ignored
|
Profiling women with good credit histories as subprime borrowers has so far attracted less notice than other forms of lending discrimination. But at least a few researchers and think tanks issued warnings during recent years.