Republican Senate Nominee Todd Akin: Victims Of "Legitimate Rape" Don't Get Pregnant. Sexiste, c'est Schick ? - Politique. Le journaliste d’Europe1 pensait-il vraiment faire de l’humour en débutant son interview de la sorte avec la ministre Fleur Pellerin : « Savez-vous vraiment pourquoi vous avez été choisie?
Parce que vous êtes une belle femme issue de la diversité? […] Que vous êtes un signal fort donné aux marchés asiatiques? » « Ça commence très, très mal » s’est contentée de sourire la ministre. On se plait à imaginer le style de questions qu’on pourrait poser à ce journaliste sur le même ton, mais est-il nécessaire de continuer à déraper sur la planche abondamment savonnée par ce M. Schick et de nombreux autres (voir en fin d’article une sélection du machisme ordinaire dans l’univers politique) . « Vous voulez qu’on parle de votre cravate ? Le documentaire Madame la ministre diffusée sur France 3 relate un épisode aussi grotesque quand, en 1991, Edith Cresson vient d’être nommée chef du gouvernement de François Mitterrand. Jean-François Copé : « J’ai toujours récusé les propos machistes » Could women really be discriminated against for taking birth control? If a crazy Arizona bill passes, yes.
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The Obama administration recently issued a mandate requiring all employers to cover prescription birth control under company health plans. Arizona legislators recently introduced a bill that would allow some employers to opt out. That’s not terribly exciting. An employee can just pay for birth control out of her own pocket. But here’s the troubling part: If her employer is seriously opposed to birth control, and wants to discriminate against her for taking it—even though she’s paying for it herself—a provision in the Arizona bill would allow that. Commentators are understandably outraged. To understand why, let’s consider an analogy: pregnancy. And yet, not once, but twice in the mid-1970s, the Court held that policies that discriminate against pregnancy don’t discriminate against women because not all women are pregnant all the time.
International women's day 2012: women's representation in politics. Women are not represented everywhere in politics.
Photograph: Abir Abdullah/EPA Thursday will mark the 101st International Women's Day (IWD) with thousands of events planned across the world to mark the occasion. Last year, we looked at the pay gap between men and women but thanks to a great new piece of research by the Inter-Parliamentary Union and UN Women, we've decided to focus on how women are progressing in politics worldwide. Where are women MPs making their mark and which countries have the best gender representations in politics?
There are currently 17 countries with women as head of government, head of state or both, which according to IPU and UN Women has more than doubled since 2005. For the full screen version click here The report marks slow advances in the political landscape - the number of lower houses hosting more than 30% women rose slightly from 25 to 30 in 2011 - and although the results show progress IPU Secretary General, Anders B. What can you do with this data? Calm down, dears? Why it's a bad time to be a British woman.
Turn back the clocks and rewind history for International Women's Day today.
This marks the first era in living memory that British women's freedoms have gone into reverse, as women pay the heaviest price for government policies. Intentionally or not, a male breadwinner with a dependent woman carer at home is the model on which the cuts are crafted, removing the supports to independence and sending women home. "The most family-friendly government ever" – promised at election time – is in retreat. "Calm down dear," Cameron said to one protesting woman MP, but Ipsos Mori finds women's support for him waning, less contented with him, more dissatisfied with how his government is running the country. Duflot et sa robe sifflée, l'opposition va-t-elle trop loin dans ses attaques? "Il ya deux têtes de turc dans le gouvernement", commente sobrement un député UMP. "C'est Montebourg et Duflot", avoue-t-il. Car après avoir été raillée pour être venue en jeans le jour de son investiture au ministère du Logement, Cécile Duflot est devenue la cible fétiche de l'opposition.
La droite s'en prend à la jeune ministre car c'est une "arriviste", qui doit sa place à un accord, assure un député UMP. Ainsi, les incidents se multiplient. En témoigne la séance parlementaire du 17 juillet où la ministre socialiste a essuyé quelques remarques machistes de l'opposition pour avoir porté une simple robe à fleurs. Si la droite ne souhaite pas commenter l'évènement, elle tente néanmoins de minimiser le geste en déclarant qu'il s'agissait probablement de "simples sifflets" en hommage "à la beauté de cette femme", comme le souligne le député UMP Jacques Myard. "Charrier pour son écharpe en plein été" Cartoonists on the world we live in: Kate Beaton.