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Jun 16, 2010	On Lying About Your Salary in Job Interviews QUOTE: In her post, Ms. O’Hara implied that her little white lie was justified and quoted a colleague as saying that everyone bumps up their old salaries somewhat when applying for new jobs.	New York Times
Jun 04, 2010	Dressed to Distract QUOTE: Aesthetic allure is evolutionary...So it was unusual when a knockout in New York, Debrahlee Lorenzana, a 33-year-old single mother, filed suit against Citigroup, claiming that she was fired in August from the Citibank branch at the Chrysler Center for looking too sexy.	New York Times
May 25, 2010	Justices say employers may not use discriminatory testing practices QUOTE: Employers who use tests that have the effect of ruling out disproportionate numbers of women and minorities may be sued each time they use the results to hire, the Supreme Court ruled...	Washington Post
May 14, 2010	A Toolkit for Women Seeking a Raise (Your Money) QUOTE: Even now, when women represent half the work force, they’re still paid considerably less than men — and part of that pay gap may be a result of what happens at the salary negotiation table. That’s assuming that women make it to the table, since research shows that they are less likely to ask for raises. Even when they do, their requests may be perceived as overly demanding or less agreeable.	New York Times
Apr 16, 2010	Out of the Loop in Silicon Valley QUOTE: Though many people say that outright sexism is rare in the tech world these days, the barriers that Ms. Fleming encountered aren’t unusual....Women own 40 percent of the private businesses in the United States, according to the Center for Women’s Business Research. But they create only 8 percent of the venture-backed tech start-ups...	New York Times
Oct 27, 2009	Can We Talk About Religion, Please? (Moral of the Story) QUOTE: despite the risk of provoking the ire of believers, we should discuss the actions of religious institutions as we would those of all others — courteously and vigorously....it is disheartening that the editorial pages of our most important newspapers did not castigate the Vatican’s invitation to misogyny and homophobia.	New York Times
Oct 14, 2009	Case of runaway convert leads to Muslim-Christian clash QUOTE: the plight of Fathima Rifqa Bary, the Ohio teenager who says her Muslim father threatened her life after she converted to Christianity and ran away to Florida, is also part of a new and growing challenge to Western jurisprudence: How to reconcile restrictive Eastern cultural and religious codes with Western freedoms of religious expression and guarantees against gender discrimination.	Christian Science Monitor
Oct 13, 2009	Latin America's worst wage gap for women and minorities? Powerhouse Brazil QUOTE: ...Brazil sits at the bottom of a list of 18 regional countries when it comes to how much women and minorities are paid for the same job a white man does.	Christian Science Monitor
Oct 09, 2009	More women than men dismissed from military for being gay QUOTE: Women were dismissed from the military for being gay at a greater rate than men last year...	CNN (Cable News Network)
Oct 07, 2009	Group Resists Korean Stigma for Unwed Mothers QUOTE: Yet each year, [South Korean] social pressure drives thousands of unmarried women to choose between abortion, which is illegal but rampant, and adoption, which is considered socially shameful but is encouraged by the government. The few women who decide to raise a child alone risk a life of poverty and disgrace.	New York Times
Sep 01, 2009	Italy's end to employment discrimination has women crying foul QUOTE: a public outcry arose when the Italian parliament recently ratified a new law ending discrimination in the retirement age between men and women – much of it from women's rights groups and labor unions.	Christian Science Monitor
Aug 25, 2009	Hawaii to Remove Inmates Over Abuse Charges QUOTE: Hawaii prison officials said Tuesday that all of the state’s 168 female inmates at a privately run Kentucky prison will be removed by the end of September because of charges of sexual abuse by guards.	New York Times
Aug 18, 2009	Family Code Gets Nudge, but Women Seek a Push (Tangier Journal) QUOTE: Despite an important reform of Morocco’s family code in 2004, pressed upon a reluctant Parliament by the young king, Muhammad VI, sex outside marriage is not recognized in Morocco, any more than homosexuality is.	New York Times
Jul 14, 2009	Veterans' facilities fall short in women's treatment standards QUOTE: Department of Veterans Affairs medical facilities do not consistently offer the level of services and infrastructure necessary to properly treat the growing number of female veterans, a government investigation concludes.	CNN (Cable News Network)
Jul 08, 2009	New UN report takes firm stand on women's rights in Afghanistan QUOTE: The 'Silence is Violence' report documents the failure of [Afghanistan] state institutions to protect women from increasing violence in public spaces.	Christian Science Monitor
Jun 01, 2009	She Plays With Boys, and Rivals Don’t Like It QUOTE: ...Hannah Berner... a run made all the more remarkable by the fact that she was competing against boys...	New York Times
Apr 16, 2009	Afghanistan's controversial law emboldens women's rights activists: Hundreds in Kabul staged a rare rally Wednesday, defying counterprotesters' stones and insults. QUOTE: The law that sparked the outrage [among women in Afghanistan}... regulates the actions of women of the Shiite minority... Among the bill's many articles, activists point to a few particularly oppressive statutes: that women should get their husband's permission before leaving the house, and husbands have the right to have sex with their wives whenever they wish.	Christian Science Monitor
Feb 10, 2009	The price of saying 'no' at work QUOTE: Indeed, a decade or two out, halfway up the career ladder or higher, a yes-yes-yes woman will discover that she wants to start saying no sometimes. But can she? Can any woman in a fast-paced, high-powered career ever stop saying yes -- without self-destructing?	CNN (Cable News Network)
Dec 07, 2008	Iraqi Women, Figting for a Voice; Activists Confront Dual Powers of Religion, Tribalism QUOTE: In their quest for stability in Iraq, U.S. officials have empowered tribal and religious leaders, Sunni and Shiite, who reject the secularism that Saddam Hussein once largely maintained. These leaders have imposed strict interpretations of Islam and enforced tribal codes that female activists say limit their freedom and encourage violence against them.	Washington Post
Oct 29, 2008	Women Buying Health Policies Pay a Penalty QUOTE: "Striking new evidence has emerged of a widespread gap in the cost of health insurance, as women pay much more than men of the same age for individual insurance policies providing identical coverage, according to new data from insurance companies and online brokers."	New York Times
Oct 23, 2008	Commentary: For women in public eye, looks matter QUOTE: here is an incredible double-standard here....There has been plenty of talk and plenty written about Sarah Palin's jackets, her hair and her looks...Compare that with the attention given to Sen. Barack Obama's $1,500 suits or Sen. John McCain's $520 Ferragamo shoes.	CNN (Cable News Network)
Sep 02, 2008	A New Twist in the Debate on Mothers QUOTE: as mothers across the country supervise the season’s final water fights and pack book bags, some have voiced the kind of doubts that few male pundits have dared raise on television. With five children, including an infant with Down syndrome and, as the country learned Monday, a pregnant 17-year-old, Ms. Palin has set off a fierce argument among women about whether there are enough hours in the day for her to take on the vice presidency, and whether she is right to try.	New York Times
Jul 30, 2008	Yale Students' Lawsuit Unmasks Anonymous Trolls, Opens Pandora's Box QUOTE: AK-47 was one of a handful of students heaping misogynist scorn on women attending the nations' top law schools in 2007, in posts so vile they spurred a national debate on the limits of online anonymity, and an unprecedented federal lawsuit aimed at unmasking and punishing the posters...Both women tried in vain to persuade the administrators of the AutoAdmit.com site to remove the threads	Wired
Jul 30, 2008	Why retirement is different for women QUOTE: Women make less money than men...Whether women are paid less than men due to poor salary negotiating, career choices or institutional biases, the end result is that they not only have less to save but their Social Security payout is less. They put in fewer years at work and lose out on years of paying into a pension or defined contribution plan.	Bankrate.com
Jun 18, 2008	Grant paints picture of 'ignorant' NASCAR culture (Inside Nascar) QUOTE: Now she's at the center of a $225 million lawsuit filed against the organization, in which she alleges sexual and racial discrimination, sexual harassment and wrongful termination. She claims she was called demeaning names, subjected to sexual advances -- including two male co-workers allegedly exposing themselves to her -- and made the brunt of graphic and lewd jokes.	CNN (Cable News Network)
Jun 16, 2008	Divide and Conquer (Equal Parenting) QUOTE: The power of lists depends on how you use them. And the discomfort so many of us feel about the approach of many couples in this article, I think, is a fear of my first kind of list. The kind that is built on resentment and that creates obligation....But what I realized during the months I spent with these couples is that they didn’t use their lists (mental or physical) this way. Instead of creating bickering, their lists ended it. They decided what stuff went in whose basket of responsibility, and they trusted their partners to do what was in his or her bucket.	New York Times
Jun 13, 2008	Media Charged With Sexism in Clinton Coverage QUOTE: Angered by what they consider sexist news coverage of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s bid for the Democratic presidential nomination, many women and erstwhile Clinton supporters are proposing boycotts of the cable networks, putting up videos on a “Media Hall of Shame,” starting a national conversation about sexism and pushing Mrs. Clinton’s rival, Senator Barack Obama, to address the matter.	New York Times
Jun 06, 2008	Turkey’s High Court Overturns Headscarf Rule QUOTE: Turkey’s highest court dealt a stinging slap to the governing party of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday, ruling that a legal change allowing women attending universities to wear head scarves was unconstitutional. The Constitutional Court said in a brief statement that the change, proposed by Mr. Erdogan’s party and passed by Parliament in February, violated principles of secularism set in Turkey’s Constitution.	New York Times
May 30, 2008	Black Group Turns Away From Bill on Smoking QUOTE: A bill to regulate tobacco products has lost the support of a black antismoking group, which said Thursday that the legislation failed to adequately protect the health of African-Americans because it would not ban menthol flavorings from cigarettes.	New York Times
May 15, 2008	Diversity Isn’t Rocket Science, Is It? (Life's Work) QUOTE: “It’s almost a time warp,” said Sylvia Ann Hewlett, the founder of the Center for Work-Life Policy, a nonprofit organization that studies women and work. “All the predatory and demeaning and discriminatory stuff that went on in workplaces 20, 30 years ago is alive and well in these professions.”	New York Times
May 01, 2008	Woman Gains Silver Star -- And Removal From Combat: Case Shows Contradictions of Army Rules QUOTE: Within a few days of her heroic acts, however, the Army pulled Brown out of the remote camp in Paktika province where she was serving with a cavalry unit -- because, her platoon commander said, Army restrictions on women in combat barred her from such missions.	Washington Post
Mar 26, 2008	Saudi Arabia: slowly opening dialog about human rights QUOTE: A Saudi commission cites progress on rights awareness. Still, a Human Rights Watch report Tuesday enumerated ongoing abuses, including arbitrary arrests and lack of legal counsel.	Christian Science Monitor
Mar 24, 2008	A Vote of Allegiance? In the Obama-Clinton Battle, Race & Gender Pose Two Great Divides for Black Women QUOTE: The admonitions of white feminists urging black women to vote gender over race have cracked open a scab, a festering sore, that had crusted over the history of this country's competing isms. A scab that covered the lingering tension between some white feminists and some black women, with their dual historic burden of race and gender. It is black women, after all, who have faced both sexism and racism in their lives.	Washington Post
Dec 20, 2007	India Overturns Law Banning Women Bartenders QUOTE: In overturning a 1914 law that prohibited women from tending bar here in the capital, the Supreme Court of India this month not only raised a glass to changing social mores in this country, but also gave Indian women access to one of the most lucrative jobs in the new economy.	New York Times
Nov 24, 2007	Saudi government: Rape victim had illegal affair QUOTE: The 19-year-old woman was initially sentenced to 90 lashes for meeting with the man...The seven attackers, who abducted the pair and raped her, received sentences ranging from 10 months to five years in jail....She was convicted of violating the kingdom's Islamic law by not having a male guardian with her.	CNN (Cable News Network)
Nov 23, 2007	Careers Give India’s Women New Independence QUOTE: The new opening has hardly rubbed away old restrictions. As they wrestle with new uncertainties and new choices, many young Indian women are embracing the changes tentatively, tinkering for the time being with the customs of the past.	New York Times
Nov 20, 2007	Saudi: Why we punished rape victim QUOTE: Under law in Saudi Arabia, women are subject to numerous restrictions, including a strict dress code, a prohibition against driving and a requirement that they get a man's permission to travel or have surgery. Women are also not allowed to testify in court unless it is about a private matter that was not observed by a man, and they are not allowed to vote.	CNN (Cable News Network)
Nov 17, 2007	Saudi court ups punishment for gang-rape victim QUOTE: A court in Saudi Arabia increased the punishment for a gang-rape victim after her lawyer won an appeal of the sentence for the rapists, the lawyer told CNN. The 19-year-old victim was sentenced last year to 90 lashes for meeting with an unrelated male, a former friend from whom she was retrieving photographs. The seven rapists, who abducted the pair and raped both, received sentences ranging from 10 months to five years in prison.	CNN (Cable News Network)
Nov 14, 2007	4th Woman Joins U.S. Bias Suit Against Bloomberg L.P. QUOTE: After she had her first child in 2005, she received the worst performance review of her career, her compensation fell, and a supervisor who could not have children of her own was openly hostile to her, the suit claims.	New York Times
Nov 12, 2007	The Myth of the Iron Lady (Department of Human Behavior) QUOTE: The driving factor in the way women leaders are perceived, experiments show, is not that they are any more ruthless than men who get to the top, but that people have strong and often unconscious conceptions about men, women and the nature of leadership.	Washington Post
Nov 05, 2007	Different Rules When a Rival Is a Woman? QUOTE: In a campaign in which a woman is leading the Democratic field, it was perhaps inevitable that the question would arise: would or should she be treated any differently from her rivals? The situation is that much more complicated given that second place in most polls goes to Mr. Obama, who is black. It means that both race and sex have been added to the mix of substance and imagery that makes up presidential politics.	New York Times
Nov 05, 2007	Drawing a Line Between Enduring Harm and Legitimate Fear (Sidebar) QUOTE: The board acknowledged, for instance, that women who have been subjected to forced sterilization are routinely granted asylum even though that procedure, like genital cutting, cannot be repeated. The board, which is part of the Justice Department, rejected the reasoning of a 2005 decision by the federal appeals court in California, which refused to deport a woman who had been subjected to genital cutting in Somalia.	New York Times
Sep 24, 2007	Saudi Women Petition for Right to Drive: Challenge Poses Risks in Sole Country Where Only Men May Take the Wheel QUOTE: For the first time since a demonstration in 1990, a group of Saudi women is campaigning for the right to drive in this conservative kingdom, the only country in the world that prohibits female drivers.	Washington Post
Sep 12, 2007	Polygamist's trial on rape charges set to start QUOTE: Walter Bugden, one of Jeffs' attorneys, says he views the case against Jeffs as religious persecution. The polygamous sect is not affiliated with the mainstream Mormon church, which outlawed polygamy in 1890.	USA TODAY
Sep 05, 2007	Exhibit A in Painting Court as Too Far Right QUOTE: The business community is scrambling to fight what would be the first legislative initiative of the Democratically controlled Congress to overturn a decision by the emerging conservative majority on the court, headed by Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr.	Washington Post
Aug 23, 2007	Fighting harassment on India's streets: Despite resistance, women's groups are challenging the country's catcalling culture. QUOTE: The efforts of academics, women's groups, and artists like Patheja are raising major questions about gender issues and the need for safe public space in a country that's often preferred to ignore them.	Christian Science Monitor
Jul 30, 2007	Salary, Gender and the Social Cost of Haggling QUOTE: Their study… found that men and women get very different responses when they initiate negotiations… [and that] men and women were more likely to subtly penalize women who asked for more -- the perception was that women who asked for more were "less nice".	Washington Post
Jun 14, 2007	Women lawyers force big rights gains in Uganda: This spring, a small group of lawyers helped overturn laws that gave men more rights than women. QUOTE: There are hundreds of groups in Africa advocating women's rights. But few, if any, have been as effective in alleviating the injustices suffered by women as this small group of lawyers in Uganda… “They're just people who need help at the end of the day," says Victoria Kirunda, who has been a lawyer with FIDA-U for over a year.	Christian Science Monitor
Jun 14, 2007	V.C. Nation: In the Venture Capital World, a Helping Hand for Women and Minorities QUOTE: While technology investors tend to see themselves as fair-minded and socially liberal, they have done a poor job of integrating African-Americans, Hispanics and particularly minority women into their ranks...Part of [the Center for Venture Education’s] mission is to help diversify the business by helping to bring along African-Americans, Hispanics and women.	New York Times
May 30, 2007	Over Ginsburg's Dissent, Court Limits Bias Suits QUOTE: A Supreme Court once again split by the thinnest of margins ruled yesterday that workers may not sue their employers over unequal pay caused by discrimination alleged to have occurred years earlier.	Washington Post

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