Comments on: How Far Have You Come, Baby?

By: Tricia Spiegel

Tricia Spiegel — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 19:20:13 +0000

Interesting! Thanks, Don X. Women are still paid less, so you may be right.

By: Tricia Spiegel

Tricia Spiegel — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 19:19:28 +0000

Interesting! Thanks, Don X. Woen are still paid less, so you may be right.

By: Don X

Don X — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 06:16:09 +0000

The link referred to above was truncated. The actual link to the article is:

http://www.stlouisfed.org/publications/RecessionDemographics/

By: Don X

Don X — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 06:05:57 +0000

The article in the site below provides an interesting perspective on the differences in the impact of the current recession on job losses for men and women. The heading is Man-cession and suggests that men have take the brunt of the job losses. I am wondering if men are dropped from the work force more often because they tend to have higher pay. And this is a cost-saving move as companies trim their work force. When it comes to hiring new workers as the economy improves, will employers tend to give preference to women if they can hire them at lower salaries? Women may be willing to accept a lower salary than a man for the same job. Just speculation.

stlouisfed.org/publications/re/articles/?id=1712

By: solara 9

solara 9 — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 16:14:47 +0000

Yes, Gwen! Excellent comment!

By: rw

rw — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 15:42:40 +0000

It’s a ceteris paribus type of study, in the real world how can you have an educated, healthy, economically and politically empowered female population that fears for their physical safety. You can’t, and you don’t. It’s a flagrant pathetic contradiction.

By: Gwen

Gwen — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 13:47:17 +0000

Women in the U.S. now are enrolling in college in greater numbers than men. They are more determined and focused — 70% of school valedictorians are female. They also have surpassed men in the number employed since the start of the recession. It may take some time, but eventually women should have more buying power and with that, more political power.

But, women do need to learn how to use their status as a majority to get what they want politically. Look at the last election and you will see how many women attacked the women candidates on trivial matters — like they drank the Kool-aid and didn’t think women should be running for the most powerful office in the land. So stupid and short-sighted.

By: kenoshamarge

kenoshamarge — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 10:51:15 +0000

If the events of the elections of 2008, both primary and general didn’t tell us how far the women in this country have to go we weren’t paying attention.

If the cover of a so-called feminist magazine that feature Oblahblah and proclaimed, This Is What A Feminist Looks Like didn’t tell us that we still have a long way to go then we are too obtuse to know our butts from a barrel.

Women make up a majority but a majority where 1/2 say the other half doesn’t count as feminists because they aren’t liberals. Feminism has now been pretty much defined as liberal women. That means that feminists don’t have a majority. Once they excluded their sisters on the right, actually drove them away, they lost the majority.

And once they started kissing the patriachy’s ass they stopped being a viable group worthy of support. IMO

By: Lana

Lana — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 01:43:11 +0000

“My heart is broken again because of a serious act of violence against a woman,” he said. “We have not learned to rightly value the bodies and lives of women.”

from an article entitled Parents Of Richmond Rape Victim Call For Peace

http://cbs5.com/local/richmond.no.charges.2.1283888.html

By: Lana

Lana — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 22:33:30 +0000

It is hard to understand why many are not concerned that US women live in a country that ranks 31st on this list.

So true, Ani, so true. And as long as That One is in office, I don’t expect any gains. I won’t stop trying, but it’s hard to expect much from this president.

By: Lana

Lana — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 22:31:29 +0000

kind of like somebody’s grandmother dying, to think of it

ROTF!!! Sad but true

By: jiminycricket

jiminycricket — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 21:46:23 +0000

Thanks for jumping up and down and waving your arms on this issue, Tricia. It needs to be aired. Especially when Mr. O is managing to find the time to play all those rounds of basketball with the guys and throwing in a token woman at his all too many rounds of golf. (Even President Bush knew better than to do that.)

All that when he can’t even come to a conclusion about Afghanistan…or at least make a decision before he gets the polling straight.

By: Ferd Berfle

Ferd Berfle — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 21:33:41 +0000

Then you did the job you set out to do. Congratulations.

It’s still a bit disconcerting, but then that’s part of what art is supposed to be.

By: Pat Racimora

Pat Racimora — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 21:29:40 +0000

Thank you kindly, Ladydawnelle. It’s fun to play around with different drawing styles (although my one constant is “colorful”!)

By: Pat Racimora

Pat Racimora — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 20:53:54 +0000

Kind of on purpose, Ferd. Not fully human yet in terms of full access to what human beings can do in a society.