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Anita Hill Links ‘Dream Home’ to True Democracy

By Anita Hill ● Arts & Culture ● October 15, 2011

Anita Hill meditates on the mass-marketing of the American Dream and the effect of the foreclosure crisis on our national sense of home in this excerpt from her new book “Reimagining Equality.”

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Bride’s Death in China Spurs Anti-Violence Bill

By Jia You ● Crime & Law ● August 2, 2011

The death of a young Chinese bride in 2009 under the fists of her husband shocked the public about the lack of protection for victims of domestic violence. Now, lawmakers have a national anti-domestic violence bill to consider.

Wal-Mart Ruling Puts Big Chill on Female Workers

By Corinna Barnard ● Arts & Culture ● June 24, 2011

The High Court’s decision this week to disqualify about 1.5 million female Wal-Mart workers from bringing a class action gave mega corporations a big win over the workers. Three of the four dissenting justices were women.

GOP’s Block-Grant Plan Merits the Chopping Block

By Susan Feiner ● Employment ● May 25, 2011

Susan Feiner calls GOP lawmakers’ craze to turn federally funded programs over to states through “block grant” payments a block-headed approach to cost control that will do great harm to women.

Raped Libyan Safe; ‘Hot’ Female Abusers Ranked

By WeNews Staff ● Arts & Culture ● May 14, 2011

Iman al-Obaidi, the Libyan woman who grabbed the world’s attention after she told a room of international journalists she was raped by military forces, was finally able to leave Libya last week.

Microcredit Skeptics Deserve a Turn in the Limelight

By Corinna Barnard ● Employment ● May 13, 2011

Bad news came this week for shareholders of India’s largest microlender. That offers a chance to tout two writers who always said high interest rates–of 20 percent and higher–were never the best news for the world’s poorest female borrowers.

Money Storms Blow Warren, Sanders Onto Daily Show

By Corinna Barnard ● Employment ● April 29, 2011

Federal budget uproars spread into the states this week alongside the slew of actual tornadoes. Elizabeth Warren, champion of a consumer watchdog agency for Wall Street, and Sen. Bernie Sanders, took up stands on “The Daily Show.”

Cash-Hungry States Could Eat Up Food Stamps

By Susan Feiner ● Employment ● April 28, 2011

The GOP budget proposal for 2012 moves the federal food stamp program to state control. That recklessly puts 44 million Americans and a disproportionate number of women at risk. It’s wrong and costly to boot.

Pro-Choice Demonstrators Join Budget Battle Today

By WeNews Staff ● Employment ● April 7, 2011

Pro-choice demonstrators and a variety of allied interests will demonstrate on April 7 as part of the major budget battle taking place in Washington. With a federal shutdown looming, GOP lawmakers are pressing a radical reshaping of health care policy.

Scott Walker Undoes Decades of Women’s History

By Susan Feiner ● Commentary ● March 28, 2011

Right smack dab in the middle of Women’s History Month we’ve been treated to the spectacle of Wisconsin’s new GOP Gov. Scott Walker taking apart public-sector workers’ bargaining rights and women’s labor gains in the process.