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Showing posts with label gender equality. Show all posts
Showing posts with label gender equality. Show all posts
Wednesday, April 3, 2024

Women 'knew their place' turns out to be losing union argument to justify discrimination in port jobs

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Herman Melville boarded the Acushnet at New Bedford Harbor in 1841. RJ Peltz-Steele, 2022, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 From the Massachusetts Appeals C...
Sunday, March 10, 2024

U.S. District Judge Ann Aiken holds her own

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U.S. District Judge Ann Aiken Public domain via Wikimedia Commons Today, March 10, is the International Day of Women Judges , and I want to ...
Thursday, January 25, 2024

Lawyers spotlight persecution of profession in Iran

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Taymaz Valley via Flickr CC BY 2.0 Yesterday the International Law Section (ILS) of the American Bar Association (ABA) recognized the In...
Friday, February 3, 2023

Go Red for Women

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Today, February 3, is National Wear Red Day , a project of the American Heart Association (AHA) to commemorate American Heart Month and ra...
Friday, January 27, 2023

We're losing the war on heart disease

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Last week, my wife's life was at risk because we did not understand that women in heart distress do not necessarily experience the sympt...
Tuesday, September 20, 2022

UK orders commission to study women's football; rising TV prices warn of commercial monopolization

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Karen Carney in 2019 (James Smed CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons ) The UK has announced "an in-depth review into the future of domest...
Monday, September 19, 2022

In 'Operation L,' Polish Special Forces rescued women judges, lawyers from Afghanistan amid chaotic U.S. exit

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In an operation little known until recently, Polish Special Forces evacuated female judges and lawyers from Afghanistan in the wake of the c...
Monday, July 4, 2022

U.S. footballers celebrate equal pay settlement

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Alex Morgan (Jamie Smed CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons) I was elated in April to hear of a proposed $24m settlement in the equal pay dispu...
Tuesday, August 17, 2021

Observers grasp at hopes for Afghan women

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If you're like me, you're watching events in Afghanistan unfold with heartbroken anxiety.  (And there's Haiti, but let's tak...
Monday, April 12, 2021

From soccer pitch to memoir, and now to White House, Rapinoe shines in USWNT equal pay crusade

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Rapinoe speaks at the White House (from White House video). Today a federal district court in California is expected to approve a partial se...
Wednesday, March 24, 2021

EU sustainability reg reaches companies in U.S., world

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A sustainability regulation from the EU promises to be the next big compliance hurdle deployed on the continent to affect transnational busi...
Saturday, May 2, 2020

U.S. female footballers suffer slide tackle in equal pay match: Understanding the summary judgment decision

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U.S. co-captain Alex Morgan is the first named plaintiff. ( Photo by Jamie Smed CC BY 2.0 .) The women of U.S. Soccer suffered a maj...
Wednesday, February 26, 2020

No bulls*** on the pitch. Vote Rapinoe!

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The local football pitch in Reino de Tor, Guinea-Bissau. RJ Peltz-Steele CC BY-SA 4.0 . Vote Megan Rapinoe for BBC Women's Footbal...
Tuesday, August 13, 2019

Student prevails in part in UMass Amherst due process disciplinary case in First Circuit

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Last week the First Circuit held in favor of a student accused of a violent assault; however, the court largely upheld as constitutional th...
Thursday, November 29, 2018

New Kramer book tells tales of civil rights

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My friend and colleague, and scholar extraordinaire, Professor Zachary Kramer has just published a new book on civil rights, Outsiders: W...
Friday, January 19, 2018

#MeToo much?

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On Boston Public Radio yesterday , the usually staunchly civil rights-sensitive Jim Braude, a former union attorney, and media personality ...
Tuesday, January 31, 2017

Please Stand Behind the White Line: Harassment and free speech on the byway

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A decision yesterday from the Massachusetts Appeals Court, V.J. v. N.J. , 2017 Mass. App. LEXIS 6 (Mass. App. Ct. Jan. 30, 2017) ( Mas...