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...
by Dianne Post | Sep 11, 2017 | Equality for Women, Human Rights, Justice and Democracy, Sexism
The Arizona Capitol Times, June 15, 2017, Opinion: GOP and the ERA Excerpt: Equal Rights Amendment seems to be very frightening to the Arizona Republican Party. On April 27, the sponsor of the Arizona ERA (HCR2012), Rep. Pamela Powers Hannley, D-Tucson, moved for it...
by Dianne Post | Mar 24, 2017 | Homophobia, Racism, Sexism
Women in Collaboration: My Trip to Cuba Dianne Post, published in Rain and Thunder: A Radical Feminist Journal of Discussion and Activism, Fall 2017, Issue # 68, www.rainandthunder.org From March 1-10, I participated in the 2017 U.S. Women and Cuba Collaboration. The...
by Dianne Post | Jan 21, 2016 | Equality for Women, Sexism
The Arizona Capitol Times, January 21, 2016, reviews the history of the Equal Rights Amendment in Arizona. Excerpt: “Arizona did not pass the ERA in the 1980s. In fact, the state donated $10,000 of taxpayer money to the Mountain States Defense Fund to defeat the...
