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157.2 million
The number of females in the United States as of Oct. 1, 2010. The number of males is 153.2 million.
Source: US Census Bureau
Earnings, women to men
$36,278
The median annual earnings of women 15 or older who worked year-round, full time, in 2009, up 1.9 percent from $35,609 in 2008 (after adjusting for inflation). Women earned 77 cents for every $1 earned by men, unchanged for several years running.
Source: US Census Bureau
Education, women to men
35%
Percentage of women 25 to 29 who had obtained a bachelor's degree or more as of 2009, which exceeded that of men in this age range—27%.
55%
Percentage of college students in fall 2008 who were women.
58%
Percentage of women 25 to 29 who held advanced degrees in 2009, which exceed that of men in this age range—42%.
Source: Educational Attainment in the United States: 2009
Political representation, women to men 112th Congress
16.8%
Percentage of women in Congress.
17
Number of women out of 100 U.S. Senators
74
Number of women out of 435 U.S. Representatives. (3 are Delegates) (Of the 74 women in the House, 50 are Democrats, including the 3 Delegates, and 24 are Republicans. Of the 17 women serving in the Senate, 12 are Democrats and 5 are Republicans.)
Source: Congressional Research Service
Rapes or sexual assault against women, 2007
248,300
The majority of US citizens are women; Women are more highly educated in the U.S; Women are continually paid less--by almost 25 percent--than men. Despite a vast pipeline of women in the professional workforce, they are relegated to non-alpha positions. Women are given miniscule representation in government even as they are the majority of the population. Women are largely relegated (most often by so-called progressives) to represent only Democrats in Congress. A staggering national assault occurs daily against women’s bodies with scant attention paid by male-dominated media.
Source: U.S. Dept. of Justice
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Burqa BanMonday, June 22, 2009 at 11:22 pm — admin
 After Obama can out as the Burqa Buddy, here is some refreshing talk from French President Nicolas Sarkozy:
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PC FAIL: American
PC FAIL: American Prospect
Nationalism can be racist and she says feminism can be a tool of nationalism but Michelle Goldberg would probably not like wearing a burka everywhere she goes. I wouldn't want a daughter to see women wearing burkas every day because it sets a poor example. If I saw women wearing burkas every day, I'd want them to get out.
Hi Donna-- Yes Goldberg is a
Hi Donna-- Yes Goldberg is a fool. House negreos often did not see themselves as oppressed either. woppe to do!
This is just more of liberal media giving voice to the select women who will work against women's rights in this society and others.
These women who are willing to hurt women for the sake of their careers is sad!
Of course Missy Goldberg is in love with Obama and like his other female minions in the media will do what they must to put positive spin on Obama's stupid anti-female words.
sigh!
Kinda like women who watch
Kinda like women who watch sexist movies or porn with the boyfriends don't FEEL oppressed. It's a slippery slope.
I'm absolutely appalled by
I'm absolutely appalled by what I read at Feministe and Feministing. I mean just look at that picture -- that is absolutely disgusting and dehumanizing! It makes me sick to look at it. I know the ban raises many questions about enforcement and such, but how can any woman not rejoice at the thought of banning a burqa. And fuck cultural sensitivity! It's time to call a spade a spade and stop compromising women for fear of being politically incorrect.
You might be interested in
You might be interested in Clarissa's Box on moral relativism
http://donnadarko.wordpress.com/2009/06/24/when-pc-is-dishonest/
Third Wavers WANT Muslim
Third Wavers WANT Muslim women to wear burkas whether Muslim women WANT to or not because it makes THEM feel PC.
I'll be impressed when Courtney et al marries her boyfriend. She'll learn what I know which is that comms of color DO NOT CARE AT ALL about sexism/feminism and scream "patriarchy" soon enough.
I just posted FemiSex's
I just posted FemiSex's comments on the anaology to smoking bans in public and burqa bans in public on Feministe and here is what that clearly uninformed writer has to say in response:
Taggle: Smoking is banned from (some) public places because it poses a health risk to non-smokers. The same can hardly be argued about the burqa.~Jill of Feministe
Jill, is not a very bright gal, a gal who can see down the line. After New York put its smoking bans in effect guess what: not only did non-smokers benefit, but smokers quit smoking in record numbers and heart attack rates drop significantly--27% in one city. This has been replicated in other cities. Femisex is fully on track here. Smokers and non-smokers benefitted.
So banning the Burqa will have very good down the line effect for women. Period. Cultural acceptance of smoking lead to bad public health effects. Public acceptance of female shrouding and debasement will have bad public health effects, mental and physical. Jill has little understanding of the ill effect of cultural acceptance of sub-human status.
Jill is a lot like Courtney Martin of Feministing,--too busy rebeling against her mommy to be a feminist.
Keep kicking butt and taking names Femisex, you are fully on target.
Yeah, I read the Feministing
Yeah, I read the Feministing response and thought thought to myself, these 3rd wave twits are so self-congratulatory of their impeccable understanding of other cultures that I am willing to sponsor them to attend a one year Feministing internship in Afghanistan.
I would have had some intellectual understanding of the "everything must be legal even if it sucks" reasoning a la the Americans but the Feministing ladies seemed incapable of even discussing the oppressiveness of the burqua in this most recent article and instead (as you stated) talk about "agents"!
Sorry the ladies at Feministing are apparently missing the boat that will take them on the fabulous ride of the 4th wave.
Your comment about sponsoring
Your comment about sponsoring a a one year Feministing internship in Afghanistan is cracking me the F*** up! Feministing and Feministe are all about peddling the "choice feminism," meaning that anything a woman chooses to do is "feminist approved", as long as she chooses it. The overlooked complication in "choice feminism" is that choices are always made in a context. So, while stay-at-home moms make that "choice" for themselves, their context is a society that encourages women to assume that gender role and discourages it for men. There are rewards for conforming to society's approved gender roles. Burqa-wearing muslim women make the "choice" to wear the burqa in the context of a society that hates women and will ostracize or kill them if they don't comply with the rules of Islam.
Sometimes you need sane women, like the ones on this blog, who are outside of a particular context, to see how totally screwed up it is. I say outlaw the burqa. There is not a damn thing good about it.
nodding to you spot-on
nodding to you spot-on comments! and i love your site as well! the 4th wavers are here! now let's get rid of the 90s 3rd wavers.
Feministing's Jessica has just defended her site under the Femisex Hero Worship story. She mentioned she is being recognized for the New Leaders Council's 40 under 40.
I just sent off an email urging The Council to re-consider Jessica. She is not helping women, and is dangerous to our progress. I pointed out that her Lipstick Feminism has been a spectacular Fail--the sexism women not suffer is worse than 5 years ago, when Feministing was founded.
Contact NLC
For questions or concerns about the 40 Under 40 Awards please contact:
Adam Borelli
NLC Executive Director
aborelli@newleaderscouncil.org
www.newleaderscouncil.org
The girls at Feministing and
The girls at Feministing and Feministe hated on Hillary and loved on Obama. Currently they continue to be like trained seals for Obama--he lies and says "coverings' are a choice and the Obotomations at Feminisitng and Feministe write that the burqa is a "choice" Muslim women make.
It would be funny if not so upsetting!
here is interesting comment
here is interesting comment from Uppity Woman talking about Obama's France hijab jab:
From unnamed press report: "a visit to Normandy earlier this month, President Barack Obama addressed France’s headscarf ban, saying countries handle such issues with their national sensitivities and histories in mind, before adding: “I will tell you that in the United States our basic attitude is, is that we’re not going to tell people what to wear.”
From Uppity:
Funny, our President can mind France’s business when it comes to hijab, but he has a hard time addressing Iran’s penchant for killing women for any perceived offense and blowing up protestors demanding freedom from religious slavery."
http://uppitywoman08.wordpress.com/
nice point! Obama used women to play on male sympathy. And to make the Pro-bama anti-feminists in the U.S. take up his "choice" lie on mandatory headgear and burqas.
Note to Uppity: Fair use doctrine does require sourcing. Let's all stay in play and look pristine professional!
Swear to gosh it is like
Swear to gosh it is like these Carrie Bradshaw feminists at Feminisitng and Feministe are Babes for Burqas. We outlawed boys and men waking around our schools with their underwear showing and pants down to knees and it did not take agency from those boys. Reverse, if freed them from peer pressure to look like fools. They grumbled out loud and then they got over it in about a minute.
Jill at Feministe is about as cutting edge as cardboard. The change we'vebeen waiting for is the 4th wave!!!!!!!!!!!!
UPDATE: predictable:
UPDATE:
predictable: Feminsting is not in favor of a burqa ban, saying;
"Banning the burqa doesn't further women's rights - it limits them." and "...legally banning any of them erases all agency from Muslim women."
Poor Jessie, the writer, likes to use the word agency, b/c it makes her sound biggirllike, but the reality of lack of agency for women who must wear burqas is more than Jessie has ever witnessed. A few weeks in Afghanistan would fix her "agency" problem. The Burqa is a massive form of debasement for women, period. In that repressive culture it is a refuge from abuse, but that is NOT agency, it is fear and terror.
Feministe equally short-sighted, says:
"You don’t have to like the burqa to realize that outlawing it will have a hugely negative impact on women."
The writer, Jilly, calls the burqa a
"modest piece of clothing" as if it were a knee-length wool skirt. UHHGGH!
Banning people from walking around downtown Manhattan with a paper bag over one's head may seem like a bad idea to these silly girls, but the reality is, it takes the pressure OFF women to wear such garments.
Yes, temporarily there may be a lull in their outings, but that will last about a fortnight, until the men get tired of going for milk every day or taking little Amhed to the playground.
It was the same story with bans on smoking in bars--all the arguements that smokers would just stay home, the bar industry would suffer, it would be the end of commerce as we know it.
Well, this writer was involved in that early effort in California and guess what: exactly as we predicted: Bar business tanked for a week, started to climb, continued to climb and by 6 months: no disernable differences. This has been the story around the country, except now the no discernable difference comes much more quickly.
People go out, they adapt to rules put in place for the good of community. Women are part of the community. Banning the Burqa is not going to have lasting damage to women. On the contrary! It will free them.
Burqa requirements take ALL agency from women. Having a government lift the shroud will force change and forced change is not a bad thing: see civil rights laws circa 1900s. Swear to God, if a white male banned black women from "choosing" to sit at the back of the bus in 1930s Alabama, these silly girls would cry about taking the agency away from black women. Forcing them to sit up front--of all things! A trip to the nether regions of Afghanistan would cure so much of their spewy talk.
Burqas are a lot like smoking, very bad for those who partake. Obama has just taken on smoking in new tough ways; this removes agency from no one. Banning a burqu is like banning smoking from public places: a very good idea for public and private health.
You are smart.
You are smart.
Ditto that. The writers on
Ditto that. The writers on this website cut through the bull. No false hoopla. Realism.
it is like visiting a bizzaro
it is like visiting a bizzaro world at Feministe and Feministing. so-called feminists purporting the the burqa is a garmet of choice!
freaky odd!
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