by Dianne Post | Mar 11, 2018 | Domestic Violence, Equality for Women, Sexism
Here is part two of three parts of my interview with Lisa Landra about women’s rights especially surrounding custody of...
by Dianne Post | Feb 12, 2018 | 14th Amendment, Equality for Women, Human Rights, Justice and Democracy, Sexism
Justice Scalia said in 2010 that the equal protection provisions of the Constitution do not protect women. Until 1971, courts ruled that in fact the Fourteenth Amendment did not give women any protection. Reed v. Reed, the first successful case, started a change. By...
by Dianne Post | Jan 11, 2018 | Domestic Violence, Equality for Women, Sexism
Why did 63% of white women in Alabama vote for Roy Moore? The accusations against him were many, long-standing, and serious. The exit polls said the women who voted for Moore did not believe the women who accused him of abuse. It’s not unusual that women don’t believe...
by Dianne Post | Dec 12, 2017 | Equality for Women, Human Rights, Justice and Democracy, Sexism
As allegations of sexual harassment continue to flood into society, let’s be clear that sexual harassment is not the problem but the symptom. The problem is patriarchy in which women are defined as less than men; in which the disease – power imbalance – is what causes...
