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If $85 billion in across-the-board automatic federal budget cuts hit on Friday–and stay in place–women across the country will lose jobs, rental assistance, nutritional support, domestic-violence services.
Women in Haiti report they have yet to recover economically in the two years after the earthquake. Memories of the disaster are still fresh, and the losses have left their incomes significantly smaller.
Midnight passes and it is intensely cold on Roosevelt Avenue. On the corner of 82 Street, Maria Gomez, a-39-year-old Mexican, carefully cleans the space occupied by her food cart.
With water and "jabón Roma," she brushes the fat off the stove that comes from the meat she cooks to prepare tacos.
“The Help” has stirred controversy in its portrayal of domestic workers during the civil rights-era in the South. But it’s also stoked interest in the California Domestic Workers Bill of Rights, which New York State passed last year.
An auto mechanics training program for 30 Kenyan women isn’t large, but it reflects the way women around the country–from parliamentarians to bus touts–are edging into traditionally male occupations.
A persistent myth about men suffering worse job-loss woes in this recession cries out for a few additional facts, along with Carrie Lukas’ whopper in the Wall Street Journal about the end of the gender wage gap.
While the media did a good job focusing national concern on race and class in Katrina coverage, Margaret Morganroth Gullette decries a failure to focus on the main casualties of the disaster: elderly women.
