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Showing posts with label sex discrimination. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sex discrimination. Show all posts
Wednesday, August 02, 2023

Female farm workers often victims of sexual violence; researchers want legal working age raised, other steps

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Graph from The Conversation from Department of Agriculture data Americans don't usually connect female farm workers with sexual assaul...
Thursday, June 15, 2023

Southern Baptist Convention upholds expulsions of two churches with female pastors; many more seem likely follow

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Delegates voted at the convention in New Orleans. (Photo by Christiana Botic, The New York Times) Southern Baptist Convention delegates vot...
Monday, June 12, 2023

Southern Baptist Convention faces issues of declining numbers, women pastors, use of 'abuse reform' database

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Saddleback Church has a broad reach.  (Photo via saddleback.com) The Southern Baptist Convention faces pivotal decisions on female pastors ...
Wednesday, May 10, 2023

Gay rodeos in Texas include gay and straight competitors and are a somewhat confidential comfort in polarized times

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The calf-roping competitors pose for a portrait. (Photo by Dawn Bottoms, The New Yorker) Gay rodeos in Texas offer marginalized groups a pla...
Monday, October 12, 2020

Weekly fact check: 'Russia hoax' claims revived; how racist, sexist attacks about Kamala Harris proliferate online

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Citing unverified "Russian intelligence," President Trump and many supporters are reviving claims that Hillary Clinton was respons...
Friday, July 19, 2019

Quick hits: Amtrak gets backlash for proposed cuts in rural routes; 'Stranger Things' gets 1980s newspaper wrong

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WSJ graphic shows Amtrak lines and the one a reporter took. Here's a roundup of stories with rural resonance; if you do or see simi...
Thursday, September 27, 2018

Seven-decade old vision for America by 'philosopher of the New Deal' remains relevant today, ag columnists write

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As negotiators wrangle over reconciling the Farm Bill, which Senate Agriculture Committee Chairman Pat Roberts, R-Kansas, says won't be...
Thursday, December 07, 2017

Time gives rural America its due in 'Person of the Year' story about 'The Silence Breakers'

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Isabel Pascual (Time photo) When Time magazine announced that its Persons of the Year were "The Silence Breakers," the v...
Thursday, January 26, 2017

State laws that block local laws are on the rise, exposing rural-urban divide in some states

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The phenomenon of state lawmakers, largely from rural areas, blocking laws by cities is on the rise, widening the rural/urban divide betwee...
Tuesday, August 09, 2016

National Park Service, accused of sexual harassment, now under fire for sexy photo shoot

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The National Park Service , already under fire for what Interior Secretary Sally Jewell has called a “culture” of sexual harassment, is b...
Friday, July 15, 2016

Democratic Miss. AG drops appeal of blocked religious objections bill; GOP governor still fights it

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Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood said he won't appeal a federal judge's ruling blocking the state's religious-objections ...
Wednesday, June 29, 2016

Federal judge: Miss. clerks can't cite their religious beliefs to deny same-sex marriage licenses

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A federal judge ruled Monday that Mississippi clerks cannot cite religious beliefs for denying same-sex marriage licenses, Jimmie Gates rep...
Friday, May 13, 2016

Obama threatens to deny federal aid to schools refusing transgender students bathroom choice

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The Obama administration sent a letter to public schools today telling them to allow transgender students to use the bathroom that matche...
Friday, April 08, 2016

In response to Mississippi religious-objections law, tourism group launches 'Everyone's Welcome Here'

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In response to a new Mississippi law that many say will discriminate against gay people and others, the Mississippi Hospitality & Re...
Tuesday, April 05, 2016

Mississippi religious-objections bill draws protests, including one from a rural weekly editor

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The Republican-led Mississippi House sent GOP Gov. Phil Bryant a bill "that proponents say protects religious freedom but opponents...
Monday, April 06, 2015

Fargo paper runs on A1 photos of legislators who voted against ban on anti-gay discrimination

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The Forum of Fargo-Moorhead , which serves a large rural audience, garnered national attention over the weekend for its Friday front page, ...
Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Being gay in Appalachia: one of many stories to be part of national oral-history project

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Later this month Shannon Ratliff ( top)  and Tyler Watts ( bottom) , will participate in an oral history project focusing on sexual orientat...
Tuesday, January 25, 2011

High court ruling is a boon for workers in towns where one employer dominates, activists say

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A U.S. Supreme Court ruling yesterday is good news for "small towns with one dominant employer where many relatives and spouses work,...