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...unexpectedly Earth-like. Like Earth, it orbits a comfortable distance from its sun; like Earth, it maintains a surface temperature somewhere between 32 and 104 degrees Fahrenheit. Most importantly, like Earth, it could easily harbor surface water. In the biological arithmetic we know best, warmth and water often equal life...
...report, which found that women earn less than men as soon as one year after graduation from college, was released Monday, a day before Equal Pay Day—an annual commemoration of how far into the next year a woman needs to work in order to have earned as much as a man did the previous year...
...women a year die from abortion procedures around the world because of faulty and sub-standard medical conditions according to a 2006 International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics report. The political infrastructure in place in America currently does not adequately allow women from lower-income households to have equal access to abortions as their wealthier counterparts. The consequences of such measures include later-term abortions, and even death...
...amid the discussions of racism, we’ve forgotten that Imus’s words also fundamentally question the legitimacy of female athleticism. Thirty-five years after the enactment of Title IX, which ordained that federally-funded athletic programs must give equal billing to women’s sports as to men’s, Imus’s “joke” reflects ever persistent cultural attitudes about women’s athletics...
...confront the history of racism and sexism in this country and the multitude of ways in which women have had to fight to get equal opportunities to compete—for Yale’s first female rowers, this meant walking sweaty and chilled into the athletic director’s office and stripping off their shirts to reveal the words “Title IX” painted across their bare breasts, in order to demand equal funding for women’s rowing. I challenge the networks to help us face this history, one which thankfully is rarely...