The average National Basketball Association salary this season is $5.4 million compared with $120, 600 for the Women’s National Basketball Association, meaning the average NBA player makes 45 times what a WNBA player makes. I found this information in the May 14, 2022, issue of The Dallas Morning News. –Joy
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Decisions about the male body?
by resolutewoman on May 14, 2022 in courage, health, sexism
During Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court confirmation hearing, then-Senator Kamala Harris asked: “Can you think of any laws that give government the power to make decisions about the male body?” Judge Kavanaugh answered, “I’m not aware—I’m not—thinking of any right now, senator.” I found this quote in the winter 2022 issue of Ms. magazine. –Joy
A decision she must make herself
by resolutewoman on May 12, 2022 in courage, health, sexism
In her 1993 Supreme Court hearing, Ruth Bader Ginsberg explained to the Senate Judiciary Committee: “The decision whether or not to bear a child is central to a woman’s life, to her well-being and dignity. It is a decision she must make for herself. When government controls that decision for her, she is being treated […]
The situation now
by resolutewoman on May 10, 2022 in health, sexism, Uncategorized
Nearly 60 percent of women in this country—about 40 million—live in states that are “hostile to abortion rights,” according to the Guttmacher Institute. That’s the situation now, reports Ms. Magazine in its winter 2022 issue. If the Supreme Court abandons Roe v. Wade, 26 states are certain or likely to ban abortion.
Should we outlaw sex?
by resolutewoman on May 7, 2022 in advice, change, sexism
Jonathan Mitchell, one of the architects of Texas law SB 8, which severely limits abortions, wrote this in a “friend of the court” brief to the Supreme Court. “Women can ‘control their reproductive lives’ without access to abortion; they can do so by refraining from sex.”
Women on the Supreme Court?
by resolutewoman on March 24, 2022 in balance, change, sexism
Why have women serving on the Supreme Court? Sandra Day O’Connor, the first woman to serve as a Supreme Court justice, once said, “I think the important thing about my appointment is not that I will decide cases as a woman, but that I am a woman who will get to decide cases.” Of course, […]
Who’s to blame?
by resolutewoman on September 28, 2021 in change, resolute-women, sexism, Uncategorized
Cecile Richards places blame for Texas’ new restrictive abortions law on the state’s Republican leadership and Governor Greg Abbott. “This is not what Texans want, and that’s what I think is so important because, of course, as a Texan I try to explain to people what you are seeing happen here is not because of […]
Texas
by resolutewoman on September 4, 2021 in health, sexism
Where a virus has reproductive rights, but a woman doesn’t
They were clueless
by resolutewoman on August 10, 2021 in change, courage, resolute-women, sexism, Uncategorized
In Susan Page’s biography, Nancy Pelosi tells about women’s struggles to be heard in Washington—especially in the early years after she was elected to the House in 1987. In the early 1990s, there were a few women in the House. These women met with a group of Democrats once a week for dinner and conversation. […]
Longings seized her
by resolutewoman on March 4, 2021 in change, resolute-women, sexism, Uncategorized
Sarah Grimke, born in 1792, was studying with a tutor when she reported: “Increasingly, during those classes, longings had seized me, foreign, torrential aches that overran my heart. I wanted to know things, to become someone. Oh, to be a son.” I am reading about Sarah Grimke, an early activist for abolition and women’s rights, […]
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