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<title><![CDATA[CNS investigative report: more women work for Sen. John McCain's campaign than for Sen. Obama's; they make more money too ]]></title>
<link>http://hermeticfront.wordpress.com/?p=126</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 21:14:06 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>dotan</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[[...] &#8220;According to a CNS investigative report, there are fewer women employed by Sen. Barack ]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] <em>"According to a CNS investigative report, there are fewer women employed by Sen. Barack Obama than are by Sen. John McCain, and the women who are employed by the Illinois Senator make less money than their male counterparts" </em>[...] writes Kavon W. Nikrad for race42008.com in a blog burst titled <a href="http://race42008.com/2008/06/30/not-going-to-help-any/" target="_blank">Not Going to Help Any</a> ...</p>
<p>No doubt the <a href="http://www.puma08.com/2008/06/17/puma-voters-number-45-million-minimum-nationwide-according-to-abc-poll/" target="_blank">PUMA voters</a> are not surprised.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Equity in the News]]></title>
<link>http://aauwnational.wordpress.com/?p=127</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 20:25:15 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>lizbolton</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Equity in the News from April 23 – May 3, 2008

Fox news segment on Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act v]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Equity in the News from April 23 – May 3, 2008</p>
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<li>Fox news segment on <a href="http://www.myfoxdc.com/myfox/MyFox/pages/sidebar_video.jsp?contentId=6377643&#38;version=1&#38;locale=EN-US" target="_blank">Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act</a> vote and pay equity. Segment features Lilly Ledbetter, Lisa Maatz of AAUW, and others.</li>
<li>When clerics, ministers and businessmen gathered at a forum in Riyadh last month to discuss women in the workplace, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/world/lifestyle-saudi-women.html?_r=2&#38;scp=34&#38;sq=women&#38;st=nyt&#38;oref=slogin&#38;oref=slogin" target="_blank">there were no women in sight</a>.</li>
<li>Since it was founded, the L.A. SWAT team has been all-male, mostly white and resistant to change. <a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=90015810&#38;ft=1&#38;f=1003" target="_blank">But that may soon change</a>.</li>
<li>Pfc. Monica Brown cracked open the door of her Humvee outside a remote village in eastern Afghanistan to the pop of bullets shot by Taliban fighters. But instead of taking cover, <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/30/AR2008043003415.html?hpid=topnews" target="_blank">the 18-year-old medic</a> grabbed her bag and ran through gunfire toward fellow soldiers in a crippled and burning vehicle.</li>
<li>The Indian prime minister described the widespread practice of aborting female fetuses as a “<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/29/world/asia/29india.html?scp=72&#38;sq=women&#38;st=nyt" target="_blank">national shame</a>.”</li>
<li>Did a recent <a href="http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/theatre/2008/05/johnny_vegas.html" target="_blank">comedy set</a> in London cross the line to assault?</li>
<li>Students affiliated with the Zeta Psi fraternity who were involved in January’s “<a href="http://www.yaledailynews.com/articles/view/24723" target="_blank">Yale Sluts</a>” incident stood before the Executive Committee of Yale College three weeks ago and were found “not guilty” on a charge of intimidation and harassment, sources close to the proceedings confirmed this weekend.</li>
<li>Sixty-nine percent of young mothers ages 18 to 34 have <a href="http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Health/2008/04/28/69_pct_of_young_moms_incur_medical_debt/8333/" target="_blank">incurred medical debt</a>, a survey indicates.</li>
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