Good news for the majority of voting residents in Nashville, Tennessee. Democratic candidate, Megan Barry won the September 2015 runoff election for Mayor in the state’s capitol, making her the first female mayor in the city’s history. Tennessee is known for being a very Republican state in the Deep South. Barry’s victory is a win for […]
Following a screening of her new film, Suffragette, Meryl Streep told Telluride Film Festival attendees that Congress ignored her letter urging them to vote on the Equal Rights Amendment. Her letter was delivered to each and every congressional representative and sadly, received almost no replies. Streep then called on Pope Francis to address gender inequality. “I […]
We Created This and We Have to Fix It *sigh* This is what we have done. My faith, Christianity, says that women are second class. My “programming” says that they are there to keep the home…and by extension, be mothers first and women second. Western Culture is finally breaking out of the Puritan view that […]
Students and staff of Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, are “outraged” after several vulgar signs directed at incoming female students and their mothers were draped from nearby off-campus houses. Fox 32 reported that “The bawdy banners were handwritten on what looked like large, white bed sheets and hung from porch ledges of private housing […]
New York State Senator Diane Savino posted a rant on Facebook blasting the media for focusing on Donald Trump’s thinly-veiled insult about Fox News host Megyn Kelly’s period, and she pointed out the other GOP candidates pose a much bigger threat to women’s rights. In her Facebook post, Savino referred to Trump’s behavior on the […]