Women of the world have united for…?
I guess I’m not really sure why they are protesting. I’ve heard mixed messages in all of the videos produced, all of the messages sent and in personal conversations so I’ll just pick a few to address. Keep in mind, there’s always a flip side to an issue and compromise is not impossible.
Planned Parenthood (PP) was organized by Margaret Sanger in 1921 as the American Birth Control League (ABCL) and changed the name in 1942. The organization promoted the founding of birth control clinics, primarily for Black and Latino populations and encouraged women to control their own fertility. They actually tried to sterilize people in lower income communities who they thought were too ignorant to control their own urges. It had some very questionable beginnings.
Essentially women who support PP are supporting a racist organization. I know, “It’s evolved over the years.” So be it, and perhaps that is a valid justification. Many organizations/people with not so admirable qualities have evolved over the years.
Where is the equality, love, peace and tolerance the women are all fighting for? Does it only apply to organizations and people you decide are okay and only to women, not to everyone?
I don’t believe in abortion. I don’t believe that I should have to foot the healthcare bill for someone I don’t even know; I already pay for my own. By federally funding this organization, I, and many others who feel as I do, have lost our right to choose. Is it fair that one side has rights and beliefs that “trump” the other side’s beliefs? No, and there’s a simple solution.
Defund PP. Then I am not forced to pay for something I don’t believe in by way of “my tax dollars at work.” You can still donate privately if you feel that this is that worthy a cause. Win, win, and PP continues to offer its services and you even get a tax break for donating to a non-profit.
If the millions of women around the world, who marched during the inauguration weekend in support of this ‘movement’ donate just $200 a year, PP would have more than enough to continue to offer their services. It might help the cause even more if the healthcare professionals who supported the march donated their time rather than charge for it as well.
You stand behind your own leaders of the movement and praise women like Madonna and Miley Cyrus who have made a lifetime career of portraying women and men as sex objects, have fondled men openly on stage and in front of a camera. Cyrus is known for her twerking during a Super Bowl game that had millions of young boys and girls watching, but Trump is a pervert who’s not fit to be President?
So why are you not offering that same consideration and tolerance to President Trump and the first lady? Many think Mrs. Trump is not fit to be a first lady because she posed naked 17 years ago. Many think that President Trump isn’t fit to be President because he “fondled” some women 15-25 years ago and in 1997 he made a statement about walking into beauty pageant dressing room. That’s 20 years ago; apparently, PP is the only entity with a questionable past that can evolve.
Don’t forget, back in the time that Trump actually said all of this, your husbands were all patting him on the back and wishing they were him along with every other red blooded American male. It was okay back then, just not 20 years later when the man is running for President and he doesn’t care about being politically correct and didn’t deny it.
Equality is what you want; so if you want it like a man, take it like a man. I don’t recollect a gang of men protesting anything about these two women and their sexual treatment of men. Furthermore, you let your daughters listen to them and praise them thus condoning their actions.
One of the most contradictory statements I heard was “we are afraid of losing our basic freedoms.” Really, which ones?
I haven’t heard a thing about any constitutional rights being taken away from any legal citizen or even a hint of a threat that way, at least not from our newly elected and/or appointed government.
But, protestors are trying to take away the first amendment right of every citizen who supports President Trump and even President Trump’s first amendment right.
Freedom of speech is just that and it can’t be any more simplified. It applies to all Americans not just some.
The first amendment doesn’t state that we have the freedom to say what we want as long as we say it a certain way. It simply says “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”
Ladies, you are all enforcing your right in petitioning the government for a redress, but your grievance is that President Trump said some things you didn’t like, in a rude or disrespectful way. That teeter-totter leans both ways too.
You can’t fight for your own freedom of speech and limit someone else’s; no matter who they are.
Bravo Teri! I totally agree with you. I was a young woman (21 years old) working in a “men’s” industry in the late 70’s and 80’s. I was given a great paying job at a company because Pres. Carter opened the job market to women in a equal opportunity act.
The things I was exposed to by the men I worked with would make your head spin. These were men from all walks of life. Some married, some part of their church, and some highly thought of in their communities. I learned very early on to keep my nose clean and my mouth shut! Inappropriate comments, jokes, pornography and uncomfortable situations were an every day occurrence. It was really quite normal.
To judge people on the times 30-40 years ago in unfair. I say give President Trump a chance. He is working hard to do what he said he would do. That is what he was elected on. His style is one of a New Yorker and find very little tolerance of those from other parts of the country.
Additionally, I am tired of Hollywood giving their opinions. They are entertainers. I do not want to watch an award show and listen to all the rhetoric. Please stick to what they know best.
It does seem that those protesting are protesting for different things. It does not seem very organized.
Thank you for speaking up for those of us that are not protesting! We want to give our new President a chance.
Thank you for your support. I also have a huge problem with the women protesting for the right to abortion and supporting it with the Wade vs. Roe decision in 1973. This was decided at a time when the women WERE still the primary caregivers…we’ve EVOLVED to the point of giving the fathers’ paternity leave, we’ve got a major amount of Mr. Mom households and women are no longer the primary caregivers…daycares are. Anyway, if that same case had gone to court today, instead of 50 years ago, there would have been a different outcome and the Supreme Court would have given far more consideration to the dads in this day and age. This may be a Supreme Court ruling that needs to be re-examined, it needs to evolve just as Planned Parenthood has evolved. If a man is consentually involved in the making of a child and the new life contains 23 of his chromosomes, he should have more say in the outcome of that child’s life or death. Equal rights go both ways.
If PP was such a great entity then the CDC wouldn’t be able to report that over 926,240 abortions took place in the U.S., down from 1.06 million in 2011, 1.21 million abortions in 2008, 1.2 million in 2005, 1.29 million in 2002, 1.31 million in 2000 and 1.36 million in 1996. From 1973 through 2011, nearly 53 million legal abortions occurred in the U.S (AGI).
Not surprisingly When the Supreme Court ruled in women’s favor:
The annual number of legal induced abortions in the United States doubled between 1973 and 1979, and peaked in 1990. There was a slow but steady decline through the 1990’s. Thank Goodness…..Overall, the number of annual abortions decreased by 6% between 2000 and 2009, with temporary spikes in 2002 and 2006 (CDC).
In 2013, women who had not aborted in the past accounted for 55% of all abortions; women with one or two prior abortions accounted for 36.2%, and women with three or more prior abortions accounted for 8.8% (CDC).
Among women who obtained abortions in 2013, 40.2% had no prior live births; 45.6% had one or two prior live births, and 14.1% had three or more prior live births (CDC).
I would like to know why, if Planned Parenthood is spending my tax dollars on education and birth control, there are still so many abortions taking place with only 22.2% of them being medically necessary? The decline is great but it’s not due to PP and their funding otherwise it never would have spiked as high as it did after the Court’s decision…Planned Parenthood was around then too.
There’s mixed information and of course both sides, pro-life and pro-choice, specifically Cecil Richards, President of PP, will argue with equal aplomb that they are responsible for the decline and still others feel that it’s simply the increased awareness. Of the 60,390,000 women in the US who have received or used any type of birth control only 7.7% of those women sought it through Planned Parenthood. That’s a total of 4,665,000 out of 60 million, how do you suppose those other women obtained birth control….Over the counter, through their family doctor? With primary care physicians and the Mandatory health insurance, there should really be no need to seek any services outside of your primary care physician. Planned Parenthood isn’t free and Medicaid is accepted almost everywhere. With over the counter birth control available it’s not like they have a need to protect younger girls, issuing birth control without parental consent,like they used to and defunding Planned Parenthood is leaving these women without other options. Insurance pays other places too and the numbers above prove that.
Some President hating women are looking for excuses to be angry.
Well Said. I am a woman that knows I am equal to any other American. I don’t need any group, media, or man to say so. If there are leftover old school red-necks wanting to keep a woman barefoot and pregnant or Muslims that believe in Sharia Law around, that is thinking an America woman does not have rights and is equal to a man that is their problem. Not mine, I do not need to protest for rights I already have as an American. I don’t understand why American women are not enjoying their lives instead of marching for??? What has happened “Live and let Live”
Have any of the women commenting or the original poster actually spoken with someone about why they marched or what the march was about? Or did you all just watch coverage on Fox News? Speaking as someone that attended the sister march in Las Vegas, I implore you to open a dialogue with us before judging us. Each person that attended the march was asked to think about what matter most to them. It was not an anti-trump or pro choice rally. It was a show of support and concern. If you are pro life then please attend a pro life rally and share your view about that. There is no reason to bad mouth a group of women for sharing their views.
“But, protestors are trying to take away the first amendment right of every citizen who supports President Trump and even President Trump’s first amendment right.” This is the most absurd comment in the post. How in the world did the march take away anyone’s first amendment rights? Just because the march got some press coverage, it didn’t stop you from from writing this article or stop trump from tweeting his opinions. How is this comment any different than you not liking the contradictory statements you heard about people being afraid of losing basic freedoms. Isn’t it weird to say that and then immediately follow with a false claim about your rights being taken away? Actually, it is contradictory and you misspelled protesters.
In case you were wondering, my daughter and I marched for equality. But I am not going to take equality like a man, as you suggested. I am going to demand it like a woman. I will follow the example set by women that fought for our right to vote and keep on marching, resisting and persisting.
Thank you for pointing out the typo in my post, which is just one more example of the pettiness I’ve seen throughout this protest.
And your reply is an example of your lack of attention to details or the real problems our county is facing. I hope your great-grandchildren appreciate the struggle we are facing for their rights. I am sure there were many people like you that told Susan B. Anthony to get a husband and be happy that he can take care of her and vote for her. I am glad she didn’t listen to them.
What I see as the problem is that even you don’t know exactly what the Women are fighting for any more than many of them know. What exactly is being threatened? Where exactly don’t you feel equal to men? I thought we fought this fight a long time ago and I don’t see any threat to the way things have been. I see you fighting for the rights of “Everybody” but in doing so you’re taking away the rights of half….the men. By fighting to uphold an antiquated Supreme Court ruling of women being 100% responsible for their bodies when it comes to abortion rights, you are essentially taking away the right of every single father of those children; it’s a double standard. You can’t be fighting for everybody’s rights and state that abortion is ONLY decided by the woman…that is what I mean by these woman don’t know what you’re fighting for because their fight is full of double standards.
The women don’t like the things Trump said about the reporter, the women, the Muslims…but he had EVERY right to say them. “As the President of the United States he should show more decorum. He’s much too harsh in his speech, he shouldn’t talk about women like that……” That’s the presumption of telling someone how to say something which is taking away the basic principal of FREEDOM of SPEECH. He can say it however he wants to, before he became President, he was a citizen with the same constitutional rights as every man and woman…he even maintains those rights as the President.
Further more, please let me share with you a few of the words spoken out of the mouth of Hillary, the woman many of these women were in high support of:
“We have a lot of kids who don’t know what works means. They think work is a four-letter word.”
“Who is going to find out? These women are trash. Nobody’s going to believe them.” –on Bill Clinton’s bimbo eruptions
“If I didn’t kick his ass every day, he wouldn’t be worth anything.” –on Bill Clinton
“I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas, but what I decided to do was to fulfill my profession which I entered before my husband was in public life.”
“We are going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good.”
“I’m not going to have some reporters pawing through our papers.
This again exemplifies the fact that most women in the march don’t really know who or what they are fighting for. They rallied for a woman to become president because they thought she would have their best interest at heart. They hate Trump because he belittled women in his speeches, little do they know, so did she.
I thought we had gained every aspect of equality when
Former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta ordered that “unnecessary gender-based barriers to service” be eliminated by 2016 He ordered that in January 2013. “Any branch of the service that fails to do so must provide a reason and seek an exemption.” That was about all the equality women were denied since as long as I can remember and I’m 54 years old. The subject of equal pay for women is a mute point….Where don’t women get paid the same as men? In high paying corporate jobs? Please, why would you fight for someone else’s pay raise and do you think that a woman needing the whole world fighting for her pay makes her worthy of it? If she’s got the education, knowledge and drive to go for the position, she should have the backbone to ask for her own salary equality. It is not the government trying to keep women underpaid and unequal, it’s the women who don’t negotiate their own value. Maybe you all missed this:
Equal Pay Act of 1963
The right of employees to be free from discrimination in their compensation is protected under several federal laws, including the following enforced by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC): the Equal Pay Act of 1963, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 and Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990.
The Equal Pay Act requires that men and women be given equal pay for equal work in the same establishment. The jobs need not be identical, but they must be substantially equal. It is job content, not job titles, that determines whether jobs are substantially equal. Specifically, the EPA provides:
Employers may not pay unequal wages to men and women who perform jobs that require substantially equal skill, effort and responsibility, and that are performed under similar working conditions within the same establishment. Each of these factors is summarized below:
Skill: Measured by factors such as the experience, ability, education and training required to perform the job. The key issue is what skills are required for the job, not what skills the individual employees may have. For example, two bookkeeping jobs could be considered equal under the EPA even if one of the job holders has a master’s degree in physics, since that degree would not be required for the job.
Effort: The amount of physical or mental exertion needed to perform the job. For example, suppose that men and women work side by side on a line assembling machine parts. The person at the end of the line must also lift the assembled product as he or she completes the work and place it on a board. That job requires more effort than the other assembly line jobs if the extra effort of lifting the assembled product off the line is substantial and is a regular part of the job. As a result, it would not be a violation to pay that person more, regardless of whether the job is held by a man or a woman.
Responsibility: The degree of accountability required in performing the job. For example, a salesperson who is delegated the duty of determining whether to accept customers’ personal checks has more responsibility than other salespeople. On the other hand, a minor difference in responsibility, such as turning out the lights at the end of the day, would not justify a pay differential.
Working Conditions: This encompasses two factors: (1) physical surroundings, such as temperature, fumes and ventilation; and (2) hazards.
Establishment: The prohibition against compensation discrimination under the EPA applies only to jobs within an establishment. An establishment is a distinct physical place of business rather than an entire business or enterprise consisting of several places of business. However, in some circumstances, physically separate places of business should be treated as one establishment. For example, if a central administrative unit hires employees, sets their compensation and assigns them to work locations, the separate work sites can be considered part of one establishment.
Pay differentials are permitted when they are based on seniority, merit, quantity or quality of production, or a factor other than sex. These are known as “affirmative defenses,” and it is the employer’s burden to prove that they apply.
In correcting a pay differential, no employee’s pay may be reduced. Instead, the pay of the lower-paid employee(s) must be increased.
Title VII, the ADEA and the ADA prohibit compensation discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age or disability. Unlike the EPA, there is no requirement under Title VII, the ADEA or the ADA that the claimant’s job be substantially equal to that of a higher-paid person outside the claimant’s protected class, nor do these statutes require the claimant to work in the same establishment as a comparator.
Compensation discrimination under Title VII, the ADEA or the ADA can occur in a variety of forms. For example:
An employer pays an employee with a disability less than similarly situated employees without disabilities, and the employer’s explanation (if any) does not satisfactorily account for the differential.
A discriminatory compensation system has been discontinued but still has lingering discriminatory effects on present salaries. For example, if an employer has a compensation policy or practice that pays Hispanics lower salaries than other employees, the employer must not only adopt a new nondiscriminatory compensation policy, it also must affirmatively eradicate salary disparities that began prior to the adoption of the new policy and make the victims whole.
An employer sets the compensation for jobs predominately held by, for example, women or African-Americans below the compensation level suggested by the employer’s job evaluation study, while the pay for jobs predominately held by men or whites is consistent with the level suggested by the job evaluation study.
An employer maintains a neutral compensation policy or practice that has an adverse impact on employees in a protected class and cannot be justified as job-related and consistent with business necessity. For example, if an employer provides extra compensation to employees who are the “head of household,” i.e., married with dependents and the primary financial contributor to the household, the practice may have an unlawful disparate impact on women.
It is also unlawful to retaliate against an individual for opposing employment practices that discriminate based on compensation or for filing a discrimination charge, testifying or participating in any way in an investigation, proceeding or litigation under Title VII, ADEA, ADA or the Equal Pay Act.
Click here to download the full text of the statutes.
Click here to download the full text of the regulations.
Source: Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Teri get a life. If you feel that barefoot and pregnant is the way women is suppose to live their lives than maybe you need to move to a country where women are not respected. We have earned respect here in this country and have to keep protesting to make sure we don’t lose that respect. You obviously don’t respect women and what they contribute to our country. You probably think Betsy Ross should’ve darned her husband’s socks rather than made the American Flag. I just realized maybe your religion has brainwashed into these feelings. You have a mind of your own use it for the right reason. Don’t give up your woman’s rights.
Beth, You obviously don’t know me. Barefoot and pregnant…HA Religion… Ha, even more. I’m a working woman, college educated three times, married with children and a grandchild, and an actress…I do everything because I can.If I fail, I don’t blame the establishment for the failure, I don’t blame society for the failure…I own my failure and try harder the next time because I’m a woman who knows who she is and was raised to know my worth which is very high…. Because my mother, my grandmother and my aunts fought this fight for women years ago…read your history books beth. This has already been done and decades ago! You’re fighting for something that MIGHT happen but has never even been threatened. Who’s the one who needs to get a life?
Watch The Mary Tyler Moore Show about the equal pay and you’ll see what me and millions of other women are trying to say. From all of the hogwash you have been writing I don’t really want to know you. It is obvious you think all of the millions of women from AROUND THE WORLD are wrong. You are really in the minority. You have been BRAINWASHED. You are obviously from the old school.
Beth, You’re joking right? Mary Tyler Moore went off the air in 1977. Are you at all familiar with the Equal Pay Act of 1963?https://www.eeoc.gov/laws/statutes/epa.cfm you might want to read this….it was in effect 7 years before The Mary Tyler Moore show even aired in 1970. Come on, really, you’re pulling my leg now right? By the way, there are 3,418,059,380 and only 4 million of you marched, I’m pretty sure I’m not the one in the minority here. No Beth, I’m from the new school, the school that raised me to believe that I was actually superior to the male gender…I mean we can do EVERYTHING they can do and if we can do it just as well or better then we get paid just as well or better. I’ve never felt any less…I keep telling you this but you keep insisting that I’m for women being barefoot and pregnant. I didn’t say that at all. I’ve merely stated that at this point the march is Academic.
If the MTM show aired in 1970 how come we are still fighting for equal rights and equal pay. You don’t get it. Apparently there ARE still women not getting their fair share or we wouldn’t even be talking about this. You may have succeeded in your life but how about the women who haven’t. You seem to be saying a lot of “ME, ME, ME” instead of we. How about you not be so set on focusing on yourself and focus on the women around the world who still need help succeeding in life. That is what they are marching for but of course republicans are selfish and always say “ME, ME, ME”.
These women marching are saying ME, ME, ME…..According to the official March Website “As we get closer to the historic women’s march this Saturday social media is being populated with reasons #WhyIMarch. Across the state and country, the PowHerNY Network of over 100 groups will rally around our Call to Action. Our rally cry will urge elected officials to prioritize women’s equality and addresses eight key issues, which especially affect women of color; immigrant women; lesbian, bisexual and transgender women; women with disabilities; and women with low or fixed incomes. This is #WhyWeMarch:
Better Jobs: The jobs in which women hold are crucial. Not only are women do women need have improved conditions in low and tipped waged jobs, but also break into new sectors that have higher pay. Careers in STEM and trade industries will not only not allow women and their families to escape the poverty that often results from low-wage jobs, it will strengthen the economy.
Equal Pay and Fair Wages: Despite factors like industry, occupation level, education, and work experience, at least 41% of the wage gap is due to bias, harassment, and discrimination. It only worsens as women’s careers progress. LGBTQ women, women with disabilities, women of color, mothers of color, single mothers of color, and most dramatically, single mothers of color in the low-wage workforce, suffer above all.
Improved Workplace Practices: Where women work matters. The reality is that the “traditional family” with a male breadwinner is now the exception with 7 in 10 mothers working. The workplace needs to reflect this change in society, especially for women who are the primary caretakers. This means that workplaces also need to reflect this change with paid family leave and predictable schedules.
Leadership Roles: Since the 1990s, women have outnumbered men in college completion rates and now make up nearly half the workforce, but we still struggle to shatter the glass ceiling on leadership at all levels. At the current rate, overall parity will not be reached in the United Stated until 2085. Institutional bias, obstacles like the influence of money in politics, and overt and subconscious discrimination against women – in particular women of color – must be addressed head on to close the leadership gap.
Caregiving Support and Quality Child Care: Unpaid caregivers, over 43 million adults in the United States, provide unpaid care to an adult or a child annually. Paid caregivers must cope with low wages, often insecure working conditions and schedules, and the demands of their own families. Child care that is affordable, accessible and high quality is an enormous challenge for most families. NYS can play a bigger role in helping families find and afford better caregiving options.
Affordable Housing: Because women tend to have higher levels of poverty, the need for safe and affordable housing is becoming ever more crucial. Lack of housing decreases a woman’s health, increases her chance of physical and sexual abuse and is an unstable environment in which to raise children.
Physical Security: Personal safety and economic security are inextricably linked for all men and women. However, interpersonal violence, sexual assault, and sexual harassment on campus and the workplace, disproportionately impact both women’s earning and learning. Missed days of work, lateness, poor performance, or dropping out of school all jeopardize one’s education or employment with devastating financial consequences.
Healthcare, including reproductive services: Reproductive health is part and parcel of women’s whole health and they need access to every component from vaccines to birth control to abortion. Women require 100% – caring for whole health means serving all our mental, physical and reproductive health care needs. Although New York is tied for tenth place nationally for reproductive rights, our state law is antiquated and services are limited.
So in providing low cost everything to women…Housing, Childcare and Healthcare….exactly where is it that women are looking for the equality? They say they want equality but they ask the goverment to provide. Successful women don’t ask for government handouts. Successful women don’t have children they can’t afford to take care of. I noticed they weren’t fighting for affordable education to improve their chances for success.
What they’re asking for is for the government to step in for them but the government already has. If they aren’t getting paid an equal wage, fight the company, not the government…the government put the law in place in 1963. http://www.tampabay.com/news/tampa-woman-wins-lawsuit-against-citicorp-for-pay-discrimination/1225359 take a read at this…this is how this particular “Women’s Want” can and should be addressed just as this woman did and she didn’t need 4 million people to push her to do it….that’s a successful woman.
And for the government subsidies that women are asking for are coming from where? Raising taxes? The Federal Reserve isn’t an endless supply of funds. Then everybody wants the ILLEGAL immigrants and refugees to come on in and share in the pie. That pie is pretty small now. Besides, the government can’t force someone to provide higher wages, low income housing and low income childcare, if they are provided then it will be by way of the government owned sources or by voucher which still draws from all the taxpayer dollars and when we have so many of these subsidies to support…the money has to come from somewhere…WHERE do suppose the government will get the money for these subsidies?
If women want equality…sorry,.. they need to begin acting equal and stop asking for the government to FIX or PROVIDE everything for them.
There are ways to handle the childcare…start a neighborhood share. Get several mothers together who need day care and work out sharing schedules, it’s that simple but no….instead of thinking about other solutions they just say…. “LET THE GOVERNMENT PROVIDE” That is not strength.
I thought you said you have a life Obviously you don’t considering all of the hogwash you are writing above. I am not even going to waste my time reading all of the above. You have tunnel vision and that is sad because there is a real world out there with real people and women who need help.
Tunnel vision: An extremely narrow point of view; narrow-mindedness.
Beth, Please remind me who is the one refusing to read another person’s point of view and calling it hogwash? I didn’t write the stuff above, it was copied and pasted from the “Official Site” of the Women’s march….but you call it hogwash. So what you are saying is that you are fighting for, hogwash?
What I am saying is have some compassion for the women and men who are not as fortunate as us. Obviously your point of view is copied so why should I read that. As I said you should show some compassion for others. Remember the words to the song “PUT A LITTLE LOVE IN YOUR HEART”
Beth, I never said that the copied material is my point of view, which further solidifies my opinion that some women don’t really know what they’re fighting for. How do you know unless you actually read something? It sounds as if you are going by what others say without actually doing the research yourself. What is copied and pasted is from the Woman’s March official Web site. These are the things YOU are fighting for.
I have considerable compassion for everyone but a hand up and a hand out are two entirely different things.