All Posts Tagged With: "National Organization for Women"
Unions and Abortion Protestors
The National Organization for Women (NOW) and labor unions have a long record of supporting each other in their respective public-policy wars, so one could reasonably expect the AFL-CIO to be on NOW’s side in Scheidler v. NOW, a long-running case that was finally decided by the U.S. Supreme Court in February. But NOW and [...]
1May2006 | Charles W. Baird | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Economics of Infantilism
While this year’s Winter Games were still going on, the website of the National Organization for Women was complaining that with all the Olympic coverage, the press had neglected to notice the 400-person rally, dubbed the “March for Our Lives,” held simultaneously in Salt Lake City. Led by organizations from the Poor People’s Economic Human [...]
1Jun2002 | Thomas E. Woods Jr. | 1 comment | ContinuedCeasefire! Why Women and Men Must Join Forces to Achieve True Equality by Cathy Young
Free Press • 1999 • 360 pages • $25.00 Cathy Young has not lost any of the spunk that drove her as a youngster to question the absurdities of daily life in the Soviet Union and impelled her family’s immigration to the United States. Ceasefire!, much like her first book (Growing Up in Moscow) displays [...]
1Apr2000 | Ellen Frankel Paul | 1 comment | ContinuedAre Women Being Victimized by the Market?
One of the many false but frequent criticisms of the marketplace is that it discriminates against women. It goes like this: if the market is fair, why do women own fewer businesses and earn less than men for doing the same work? Groups organized for the purpose of getting government to intervene insist that women [...]
1Apr1998 | Lawrence W. Reed | 0 comments | Continued-
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