"Noises about rights for women" – On Denial River
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May 26, 2005
Billmon: On Denial River
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I wish Billmon would have have added this:
“Under Saddam’s dictatorship, Iraqi women were among the most free in the Middle East. They enjoyed many rights equal to those of men: rights to education, employment, divorce in civil courts and custody over children were endorsed by the ruling Ba’ath regime”
Posted by: Friendly Fire | May 26 2005 21:45 utc | 3
U.S. first lady Laura Bush and Egypt’s first lady Suzanne Mubarak …. chat with a puppet
I had no idea Hosni was that tall or that green
Posted by: bcf | May 26 2005 22:52 utc | 4
Is that puppet named after Alan Simpson the former senior senator from the Great State of Wyoming? Just wondering.
Posted by: Stillonmt | May 27 2005 0:34 utc | 5
FF……the same could have been said about afghanistan 30-40 years ago.
Posted by: lenin’s ghost | May 27 2005 22:30 utc | 7
When it comes to women’s rights, we’ve got our own denial right here in river city.
So many of the target issues of the women’s rights organizations [equal pay; glass ceiling; feminization of poverty] can be traced to a tax law passed in 1948 by a congress alarmed by the number of middle class married women entering and moving up in the paid workforce. They decided to use tax law to socially engineer wives back into the domestic sphere. It works by imposing a higher marginal income tax on married women than on men. The anti-Rosie law is still on the books and is still performing as intended: it has induced generations of married women to leave the paid workforce permanently.
Not one women’s organization has challenged this law. Not one labor rights organization has challenged this law. Not one ‘Civil Liberties’ organization has challenged this law. It is the “secondary earner” income tax category.
Posted by: gylangirl | May 28 2005 0:45 utc | 8