Blogging for America: The slow pace towards equality

Thursday, March 03, 2011

The slow pace towards equality

The first White House report on the status of women since the one Eleanor Roosevelt helped sheppard in 1963. While there are some slight improvements in almost 48 years, we still have a long way to go to reach equality. And at this rate. . .

Read it for yourselves:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/rss_viewer/Women_in_America.pdf

And, then ask yyourselves: What does this mean today in 2011?

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Dr.JAM is a professor of Political Science and Women's Studies at Marist College, Poughkeepsie NY. Her main focus is teaching students to be critical thinkers and active citizens. She worked in both the Koch and Cuomo administrations before returning to academia. She teaches Modern Political Thought, Contemporary Ideologies, Feminist Political Thought, American National Government, Political Ideas and Issues, Political and Social Movements, among other courses. She writes a regular column (Walk the Talk) in InsideOut (tm). She has written many articles and books including The Historical Dictionary of the Lesbian Liberation Movement: Still the Rage (Rowman Littlefield, 2003). An active citizen, she served on the boards of Hudson River Sloop Clearwater (where she once was cook); The Grace Smith House,currently she serves on the (executive) boards of the Eleanor Roosevelt Center at ValKill and the Ulster County Democratic Women. $>

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Thursday, March 03, 2011

The slow pace towards equality

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