“A bill introduced by a group of Republican state lawmakers in Pennsylvania this week set off alarms at the Children’s Defense Fund, which told Raw Story on Thursday that the proposal boils down to “starving children” in order to punish women for giving birth while on taxpayer-funded welfare. “This is absolutely outrageous,” Patti Hassler, spokesperson …
Tag Archive: Women
Nov
08
Women in the Arts: Guerrilla Girls
Arts activists the Guerrilla Girls, a group of anonymous women or “feminist masked avengers” fighting for gender and racial equality, were honored at the fifth annual Women in the Arts luncheon held on Friday, November 9, 2007 at the Brooklyn Museum. Proceeds from the event, organized by the Museum’s Community Committee, a volunteer organization, benefit …
May
09
Law Codes or what Manu told the Hindus how to treat their Women
Law Codes or what Manu told the Hindus how to treat their Women LAW CODES Law codes can be defined as a collection of all laws. It follows from the definition that laws do not evolve all by themselves unless there are law-makers and law-enforcers. For such a development, the society following the …