EQUALITY 4 WOMEN

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This reference website provides a basis for thinking about why Feminism is necessary: Feminism is the logical response to Sexism: social and legal systems that advantage men at women's expense. [NOTE: 3 files updated June 28, 2012 so "refresh browser" (F5 key) if pages or files are reported "missing"]

I. Basics* Three Categories of Discrimination Against Women and Girls (#764, 1 page) 18th Century views: "Our Masculine Systems" & "abuse of brute strength" (#5, 2 pages) Notes for National Forensics League Debaters (#565 & NOW.org website, 12 pages) NNT article: Denial of equal protection promotes violence against women (#541, 1 page) Violence protected by the 1st Amendment: the need for ERA, chapter from “The Price We Pay: The Case Against Racist Speech, Hate Propaganda, and Pornography",1995. (#525, 11 pages) "Green" fact sheet on the ERA Progress Toward Constitutional Equality for all U.S. Citizens. Notes sex discrimination in 2009 health care reform proposals as a consequence of Harris v. McRae (1980) decision that government may withhold abortion services (#10, 2 pages) IIIIII. Remedy Who's Defining Equality? (Liberal as well as conservative gatekeepers?) How to pass an Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) worth passing (#760, 6 pages) National Organization for Women (NOW)**. See "Issues" and use "Search", both on left side of page.	II. Gotchas Single Sex Schools and the ERA (#763, 2 pages) Sex discrimination and Pregnancy: Essay: Stop Abortion? Fix Men! (#622, 1 page) Sex Discrimination and Sex: Yale J. of Law and Feminism reprint "Abortion Law: 'Unique Problem for Women' or Sex Discrimination?" (#417, 15 pages) Sex Discrimination and Sexual Orientation (unavailable, in preparation) "Benign" Sex Discrimination: Single Sex Schools (#554, 8 pages) Single Sex Schools: Pro and Con (#476, 1 page) NOW letters to Wall St. Journal "Benign" Sex Discrimination: Insurance "Insurance versus the Equal Rights Amendment--The Illinois legislative story 1978" (#15) "Automobile Insurance: Implications for Women" 1996 Women's Travel Conference, Federal Highway Administration. (#570) Information source on cents-per-mile auto insurance "Benign" Sex Discrimination: Combat Exemption and The Draft (#761)
* "Resolved, That the women of this country ought to be enlightened in regard to the laws under which they live, that they may no longer publish their degradation by declaring themselves satisfied with their present position, nor their ignorance, by asserting that they have all the rights they want." Adopted by delegates at the Seneca Falls Meeting July 19, 1848. ** "Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex." Approved by Congress, March 22, 1972.
Equality 4 Women is a project of Twiss Butler, Washington, DC Contact: info@equality4women.org