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There is a live fight going on to bolster women’s wage protections in the state that has the country’s first equal pay law. Attorney General Maura Healey hopes new backing from a major member of the business community could be a game changer.
Women’s and rights advocates were quick to criticize a unanimous ruling that strikes down a state law banning anti-choice protesters within 35 feet of clinics.
After Massachusetts approved such unions in 2004, Catherine Reid wondered about where marriage would lead. “There is no model for how two women go through this process,” she says in this excerpt from “Falling Into Place,” “just steps such as proving that neither one of us has syphilis.”
Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick has been paying female administrative judges less than male counterparts for too long. It’s time to take a look at this invisible social problem in one of the country’s supposedly most equitable states.
Massachusetts’ Sen. Scott Brown plays up his pro-choice credentials but challenger Elizabeth Warren says he would let the High Court go back on abortion.
The first-term Massachusetts Republican’s new ads spotlighting his role as father and husband and are narrated by his wife. Challenger Elizabeth Warren’s ads are impersonal but family-focused in another way. She talks about economic hardships.
A former U.S. federal judge, Nancy Gertner took on many civil rights cases, starting in the 1970s, as a lawyer. In this excerpt from her memoir, “In Defense of Women,” she recounts helping to defeat an anti-choice law in Massachusetts.