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Women in the workplace isn't just about feminism, it's economic necessity with the GOP-shredded safety net During a HuffPost Live segment last week titled “Masculinity Now,” Vice co-founder Gavin McInnes aired a series of expletive-laden perspectives on modern femininity, none of them positive. While McInnes’ host and co-panelists maintained their calm, the blogger and publisher ranted that “feminism has made women less happy,” citing cultural pressure to “feign” toughness and inappropriate presence in the workforce as culprits. In short, McInnes’ claim is that the majority of women are naturally predisposed to derive satisfaction from “being domestic and shaping lives” rather...

Mexican employees get sex dolls09/03/2006 07:59  - (SA)     Mexico City - Mexico is deploying an army of inflatable sex dolls dressed as office executives in a head-turning publicity campaign against workplace harassment of women in the famously macho country. Timed to coincide with International Women's Day on Wednesday, the advertisements show sex dolls with staring eyes and gaping red mouths dressed in suits and sitting at computers. "No woman should be treated like an object. Sexual harassment is degrading and it's a crime," says a voice-over at the end of a television ad, which shows a man walking past one of...

NOW Attacks Sacks, Belittles Campaign Against 'Boys are Stupid' Clothing April 1, 2004 By Pat Cangelosi Helen Grieco, Executive Director of the National Organization for Women, California chapter, attacked men's and fathers' rights columnist and talk show host Glenn Sacks, labeling him a "women-bashing, backlash shock-jock radio host" in a Christian Science Monitor feature story published today. Grieco also belittled the importance of Sacks' highly publicized campaign against 'Boys are Stupid' clothing, saying "[At NOW we] don't have time for T-shirt campaigns." Sacks began the campaign in December when he urged his radio show listeners and supporters to pressure retailers...

Women Sue to March Topless During Protest in Daytona Beach ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - Two women who plan to lead a topless protest in Daytona Beach on Sunday sued the city and its mayor Friday in a pre-emptive move to stop police officers from arresting them. Elizabeth Book and Shirley Mason asked a judge in U.S. District Court in Orlando to issue a restraining order prohibiting city police officers from arresting marchers during a topless protest on the last day of Bike Week, the annual gathering of motorcycle aficionados. No one answered the phone at U.S. District Judge Gregory...

GREENVILLE, S.C. (AP) — New York Democratic Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton will speak next month at the Riley Institute's "Women & Politics: Transforming Public Leadership" conference at Furman University. Clinton and CBS News correspondent Lesley Stahl will kick off the two-day conference Oct. 6. Marian Wright Edelman, founder and president of the Children's Defense Fund, will speak at the final lecture Oct. 7. The event is sponsored by the Richard W. Riley Institute of Government, Politics and Public Leadership. Riley served as South Carolina governor and U.S. Secretary of Education. "It'd be certainly significant that Hillary Clinton is coming here...

I well recall that night as a seventh grader, I decided to forgo the usual Halloween festivities. Instead, I went door-to-door toting a small cardboard box, collecting spare change for UNICEF. I knew the money was going for a good cause -- to help disadvantaged children around the world. As early as 1980, UNICEF director Jim Grant championed simple yet effective programs to promote child welfare. These strategies included immunizations, promotion of breastfeeding, and training birth attendants. Grant's initiative has been credited with saving the lives of over 25 million children. But in 1995, Grant tragically died, and radical feminist...

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg recently joined Hillary Clinton, Janet Reno, anti-Pledge-of-Allegiance Judge Stephen Reinhardt, and other like-mined liberals and feminists to launch a new organization called the American Constitution Society. Its mission is to challenge the Federalist Society, which promotes the nomination of judges who believe in the U.S. Constitution and in America's unique system of federalism. The left doesn't believe that the Constitution should be the benchmark of court decisions or that we should abide by its requirement that "all legislative powers" belong to the Congress. Liberals believe that new rights should be invented and public policies...

Politicians will tell you there are certain things in America that you just can't oppose. You can't be against mom or apple pie or jobs. You can't be against good schools or clean air or low crime rates. You might expect to find marriage on the list. But as President Bush has learned ever since he floated a modest initiative to promote marriage among poor Americans, some people – ones who don't think the words "wedded" and "bliss" belong within 100 miles of each other – are willing to trash society's most venerable institution. The president wants to spend $300...