National Women S Law Center

Today we celebrate the anniversary of female suffrage, a victory that took more than 70 years of political struggle to achieve. After women won the right to vote in 1920, socialist feminist Crystal Eastman observed that suffrage was an important first step but that what women really wanted was freedom. In an essay titled "Now We Can Begin," she laid out a plan toward this goal that is still relevant today. Eastman outlined a four-point program: economic independence for women (including freedom to choose an occupation and equal pay)

Republican candidate Mitt Romney is fond of telling crowds that women have lost more jobs than men have under President Obama's economic watch. Is he correct? Kind of. But it's not like the Obama administration deliberately targeted women. Rather, women took an especially rough economic pounding because they play a disproportionately large role in our public schools. And public schools have suffered mightily in recent years. According to the National Women's Law Center, women lost 396,000 public sector jobs during the recovery, or more than two-thirds of all such jobs cut. The economy may now be on the mend, but it's not like the public sector is rushing to fill all those vacancies.

Kudos to reporter Dana Calvo, who had the honesty and good sense to question the "nonpartisan" designation of groups like Women's Voices. Women's Vote. and 1000 Flowers ["Stars Shine Light on a Potent Voting Bloc: Single Women," Oct. 8]. The WVWV website's links include one to the National Women's Law Center, a brief perusal of which will leave no doubt that it is a garden-variety anti-Bush group. There is no corresponding WVWV link to a pro-Bush site, so it is not a great stretch to assume that WVWV prefers to direct its new voters to Democrat candidates.

Today we celebrate the anniversary of female suffrage, a victory that took more than 70 years of political struggle to achieve. After women won the right to vote in 1920, socialist feminist Crystal Eastman observed that suffrage was an important first step but that what women really wanted was freedom. In an essay titled "Now We Can Begin," she laid out a plan toward this goal that is still relevant today. Eastman outlined a four-point program: economic independence for women (including freedom to choose an occupation and equal pay)

The National Women's Law Center said it opposes Judge Clarence Thomas for the Supreme Court because his record "shows no commitment to core constitutional or statutory protections for women." Marcia Greenberger, co-president of the group, told reporters: "As far as we're concerned, Judge Thomas is not the best person or even the best man for the job."

Taking a stance for the first time on a Supreme Court appointment, the National Women's Law Center Tuesday denounced Judge Robert H. Bork as a judicial activist who finds no specific protections for women in the Constitution except their right to vote. "At stake in Judge Bork's nomination . . .

Noting that the government initiated only one of the 416 complaints filed about Title IX compliance in athletics from 2002 to 2006, the co-president of the National Women's Law Center testified Tuesday before a congressional subcommittee that stronger oversight is required.

Republican candidate Mitt Romney is fond of telling crowds that women have lost more jobs than men have under President Obama's economic watch. Is he correct? Kind of. But it's not like the Obama administration deliberately targeted women. Rather, women took an especially rough economic pounding because they play a disproportionately large role in our public schools. And public schools have suffered mightily in recent years. According to the National Women's Law Center, women lost 396,000 public sector jobs during the recovery, or more than two-thirds of all such jobs cut. The economy may now be on the mend, but it's not like the public sector is rushing to fill all those vacancies.

The Supreme Court and the Obama administration, already headed for a face-off in March over the constitutionality of the healthcare law, appear to be on another collision course over whether church-run schools, universities, hospitals and charities must provide free contraceptives to their students and employees. The dispute stems from one of the more popular parts of the new healthcare law: its requirement that all health plans provide “preventive services” for free. That category includes vaccines and such routine screenings as cholesterol checkups and mammograms.

Noting that the government initiated only one of the 416 complaints filed about Title IX compliance in athletics from 2002 to 2006, the co-president of the National Women's Law Center testified Tuesday before a congressional subcommittee that stronger oversight is required.

Kudos to reporter Dana Calvo, who had the honesty and good sense to question the "nonpartisan" designation of groups like Women's Voices. Women's Vote. and 1000 Flowers ["Stars Shine Light on a Potent Voting Bloc: Single Women," Oct. 8]. The WVWV website's links include one to the National Women's Law Center, a brief perusal of which will leave no doubt that it is a garden-variety anti-Bush group. There is no corresponding WVWV link to a pro-Bush site, so it is not a great stretch to assume that WVWV prefers to direct its new voters to Democrat candidates.

The National Women's Law Center said it opposes Judge Clarence Thomas for the Supreme Court because his record "shows no commitment to core constitutional or statutory protections for women." Marcia Greenberger, co-president of the group, told reporters: "As far as we're concerned, Judge Thomas is not the best person or even the best man for the job."

Taking a stance for the first time on a Supreme Court appointment, the National Women's Law Center Tuesday denounced Judge Robert H. Bork as a judicial activist who finds no specific protections for women in the Constitution except their right to vote. "At stake in Judge Bork's nomination . . .