from CNN Oct 6 The 2023 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to jailed Iranian activist Narges Mohammadi for “her fight against the oppression of women in Iran and her fight to promote human rights and freedom for all,”
...the Norwegian Nobel Committee announced in Oslo on Friday [saying] it “recognizes the hundreds of thousands of people who in the preceding year have demonstrated against the theocratic regimes’ policies of discrimination and oppression targeting women...”
Mohammadi, 51, has been sentenced to more than 30 years in prison, and has been banned from seeing her husband and children. Her name has become synonymous with the battle for human rights in Iran, where nationwide protests broke out last year following the death of Mahsa Amini. Amini was a 22-year-old [Kurdish] woman who had been taken into custody by the regime’s notorious morality police.
“Her brave struggle has come with tremendous personal costs. Altogether, the regime has arrested her 13 times, convicted her five times, and sentenced her to a total of 31 years in prison, and 154 lashes...”
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from HaitianTimes Haitian-American democracy, economics, and political participation scholar Dr. Claudine Gay inaugurated Sept 29 as the 30th president of Harvard,
first black and second woman in that jog in the 368 years since the founding of the university.
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This year, <big><big>Latinas in the US will earn 52 cents for every $1 earned by White men.</big></big> It may be the gap might be closed by entrepreneurship
...The idea that owning a business can help build generational wealth and close wage gaps helped drive about 2 million Latinas into entrepreneurship in the United States. Before the pandemic, Latinas were creating businesses at a rate six times faster than all other groups, including White men and Latinos, and some data suggests that trend has continued.
Currently, Latinas face the widest gender pay gap of any group, according to the most recent census data … Latina Equal Pay Day, marked October 5, draws attention to that disparity.
Much of that gap is due to the overrepresentation of Latinas in the lowest paid and most volatile jobs in the country...
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from AP and Medscape Three-Day strike of 75,000 KaiserPermanente healthcare workers, mostly women) out of 85,000 unionized total.
The arguably largest healthcare strike in US history, over wages and staffing shortages, entered its third and final day on Friday without a deal between industry giant Kaiser Permanente and the unions whose members have been working without a contract since September 30. As yet, no further bargaining sessions are scheduled. It’s expected that workers would return Saturday 6:00am to their jobs serving nearly 13 million Americans.
...The decision to walk off an important job was very difficult, said Josephine Rios, 55, a nurse attendant who takes in patients for surgery at a hospital in Irvine, California…. _________________________________________________
… Workers picketed at Kaiser's hospitals and clinics in California, Colorado, Washington, Oregon, Virginia [,Hawaii, Maryland] and Washington, DC, but most employees are located in California.
Physicians and most registered nurses did not strike, but many other union members did, including respiratory therapists, certified nursing assistants, laboratory technicians, receptionists, pharmacy clerks, and housekeepers.
The strike is expected to last 3 days, except for workers in Virginia and Washington, DC, who walked out for 1 day.
While Kaiser Permanente hospitals and emergency rooms remain operational, numerous elective procedures and screenings were postponed. In California and other states, some medical clinics, laboratories and outpatient pharmacies have closed until the strike ends, despite Kaiser hiring thousands of temporary workers. Some hospital cafeterias, flu/COVID immunization sites and optometry clinics also shut down in states hit by the strike….
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from The19thNews Deborah Laufer “v United States Supreme Court”
(so to speak) by caregiving reporter Sara Luterman
On Wednesday, the Supreme Court will hear arguments for Acheson Hotels LLC v. Laufer. The court will examine whether Deborah Laufer, a disabled advocate, can sue hotels for violating the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), despite having no intention to visit them.
Civil rights advocates fear that the court has the potential to gut one of the main enforcement mechanisms of the ADA.
They also fear that the court’s decision could have a more far-reaching impact on other civil rights law...
...It is impossible to know for certain how the court will rule. Disability advocates had dire predictions in another recent Supreme Court case, Health and Hospital Corporation of Marion County v. Talevski. But the court ruled 7-2 in favor of preserving the ability of people with disabilities and their families to sue over problems with federally funded programs…
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In choosing for this office the first Black president of EMILY’s List, Newsom fulfilled a promise to the public. Read more about Butler's career and what her appointment means for the Senate HERE. Tag for more diaries here.
But TheIntercept has less-than-positive reportage about Butler throwing major EMILY’s List support into backing the reelection of Vice President Kamala Harris, “a close ally of Butler’s,” at perhaps questionable cost. Can’t be sure, but this might fall in the category of “people who love sausage and respect law/government shouldn’t watch either being made”….
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from Chicago Sun-Times video On Sunday, Oct. 1, 2023 at 104 years and 289 days, Chicago's Dorothy Hoffner became the oldest person ever to tandem skydive out of an airplane.
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from elenacarlena: I get tired of people calling GOP women who temporarily repudiate $Rump "brave heroes". What about those of us who have been fighting $Rump all along?
Real political heroes, fighting the good fight despite threats to lives and safety, include:
<big>Nancy Pelosi, who was sought for hanging during the January Capitol riot </big> (link goes to article on one of her major threateners receiving 27 months in prison) and as you probably recall almost lost her husband to an assailant; [note: the attacker had come in search of the then-Speaker of the House, evidently on political motivation, and Trump later celebrated the attack and derided Paul Pelosi’s life-threatening injuries.]
<big>Gabby Giffords, who was shot and almost killed as a Democratic Arizona Congresswoman,</big> today a public spokesperson for gun control;
<big>Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC), who also was threatened during the Capitol riots and has had "astronomical" levels of threats for years,</big> with inadequate security much of that time. She still speaks truth to power.
We could go on and on, but I mentioned one impressively brave woman from each of 3 generations. Hopefully that will give everyone an idea of the courage of Democratic women.
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...if also the rare GOP woman
<big>Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning by Liz Cheney, </big> Dec 5, 2023, 384 pages, Little, Brown and Company, ISBN-13: 9780316572064
“...In the aftermath of the 2020 presidential election, Donald Trump and many around him, including certain other elected Republican officials, intentionally breached their oath to the Constitution: they ignored the rulings of dozens of courts, plotted to overturn a lawful election, and provoked a violent attack on our Capitol.
Liz Cheney, one of the few Republican officials to take a stand against these efforts, witnessed the attack first-hand, and then helped lead the Congressional Select Committee investigation into how it happened (voting to impeach TFG). In Oath and Honor, she tells the story of this perilous moment in our history, those who helped Trump spread the stolen election lie, those whose actions preserved our constitutional framework, and the risks we still face...”
Granted, Elizabeth Cheney has her own political agenda going, having been censured and removed from Wyoming’s Republican Party, and censured by the RNC, etc etc., yet reportedly not ruling out a presidential run, for which she’d need the support of centrist Republicans repelled by the *rumpists … if there are that many.
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In 1995, Katalin Kariko was demoted from a tenure-track position by the University of Pennsylvania, deeming her research "not of faculty quality."
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Scientific fieldwork can be an almost literal minefield for women and LGBTQ+ people, causing STEM to hemorrhage talent and strangle the careers of scientists who aren’t White cis-gender male. The pervasive culture of discrimination, harassment, and sexual assault at Antarctic research stations alone was exposed in The National Science Foundation’s August 2022 report — one respondent quoted in it said, “Every woman I knew down there had an assault or harassment experience ... <big><big>The19thnews spoke with geoscientist women building programs of new skill-sets and standards to make STEM work more inclusive, and to equip researchers with strategies to intervene in-the-moment on one another’s behalf.</big></big>
Alice Hill, a hydrologist, who completed her Ph.D. at the University of Colorado, Boulder, turned to her experience as an instructor with the National Outdoor Leadership School.
“NOLS pays a lot of attention to setting group culture up in a way that [very deliberately] creates safe environments ...in order for people to learn… [because] people don’t come to field[work] camps with the … expectation that ... needs will be different in remote field spaces. …the overarching goal ... is almost always to get the data, not to learn and grow.”
[The program, called FieldSafe, begun in person] before the pandemic, has since evolved [online]. It teaches everything from basic physical safety when out in the elements, to how to make decisions as a group and empower individual team members, as well as how to deal with conflict. It also guides participants in how to create a code of conduct before they ever set foot on a site.
Kristy Tiampo, director of the Earth Science and observation Center at the University of Colorado, Boulder, is a co-creator of the program. A construction engineer in the mid 1980s when women were unusual on job sites, she’d seen good leadership change toxic workplace dynamics by running an atmosphere of respect and expectation of good behavior.
“...Of course, the inverse is true.”
FieldSafe has linked up with AdvanceGeo Partnership, an initiative housed at Carleton College, that aims to make the geosciences more inclusive, to offer a <big>bystander intervention course as part of its training….</big>
Read about how THAT works, the similarity between academia and the military that puts the lives of subordinates deeply in the power of superiors, the research and statistics about workplace violence in STEM, and more … at the link.
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Canadian researchers address a pervasive, subtle challenge faced by women in many fields: incidents tinged with potential gender bias, yet ambiguous enough to defy clear categorization as discrimination.
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Theconversation How to challenge toxic behaviour and help someone being bullied or harassed at work
The average person will spend more than 3,500 days at work, so toxic behaviour in the workplace can have a big impact on your wellbeing. Whether it’s the sexual assault of a theatre nurse by a senior surgeon, harassment at Westminster, or [anywhere], workplace scandals of unacceptable behaviour are [finally going public] … yet victims can be met with silence from bystanders … reluctant to intervene …
More than one in five of the respondents to a 2021 survey by Culture Shift, a bullying reporting service for companies, said they would [keep their distance from a workplace bullying target] to avoid conflict themselves [and if] they witnessed someone being bullied by somebody senior to them, 28% said they would be afraid to get involved….
...In researching <big>intervention,</big> I was inspired by law expert Rachel Fenton’s work on how bystanders can help challenge problematic behaviour. I developed a <big>bystander intervention programme</big> at University College Cork. It’s a blended learning and training course that aims to educate and empower staff and students to recognise all forms of sexual hostility, harassment and violence while studying or at work. It also aims to teach people how to make safe and effective interventions if they witness bullying or harassment….
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from Variety Julia Ormond Sues Harvey Weinstein for Battery, CAA and Disney as Enablers of Sexual Assault
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from TheMarkUp.org What happens when nurses are hired like Ubers
From even before the pandemic, hospitals across the country downsized to the bone to maximize revenue, encouraged by the temp staff agency idea that they could get adequate patient outcomes by just plugging people into job slots with no team context, no knowledge of the job site, no one to get their back.
“You basically just hope that nothing goes wrong,” a nurse said about a shift with the app Clipboard.
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from Guttmacher New Iowa Study Adds to Body of Evidence that Trump “Domestic Gag Rule” Negatively Impacted Access to Contraception
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from TheConversation Worldwide consultations for The 16th Synod of Bishops, the global synod reflect Pope Francis’ efforts toward building a more inclusive Catholic Church.
Last week we wondered how inclusive of women it could or might be. This informative article’s author, a theologian who studies the Catholic Church, with an emphasis on the period during and after Vatican II, here argues that this upcoming synod — the first part of which will take place in Rome on Oct. 4-29, 2023, and the second in 2024 — reflects Pope Francis’ efforts to advance the reforms of Vatican II, that “He wants all Catholics to take an active role in thinking about the future of their church and wants the bishops to exercise their authority by first listening to the people….”
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When Sarah Anderson travels to Texas middle schools to teach sex education, she brings props: a toy baby to represent unplanned pregnancy, a snake for bacterial infections, a pregnancy test for infertility, a skeleton for AIDS and cancer….
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from AP — click to see the fantastic, joyful image!!! The streets of cities across Latin America were bathed in green September 28 as tens of thousands of women marched to commemorate International Safe Abortion Day.
Latin American feminists have spent decades fighting to roll back strict prohibitions, although there are still few countries with a total ban, like El Salvador and Dominican Republic.
In Mexico, marchers celebrated the recent decision by Mexico’s Supreme Court to decriminalize abortions at the federal level. In Argentina, marchers had a more somber tone, worrying that the strength of a populist far-right presidential candidate going into elections in October could signal peril after years of work by feminists….
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