WOMEN: Empowerment of females lifts societies
Kathleen Parker’s “Women aren’t a side issue, they are the main issue” (column, 4-5) asserts that protecting women should be at the core of our foreign policy. How true. It is in our strategic interest...
View ArticleROMNEY: Is poverty a lifestyle choice?
It is commendable that, instead of getting a job picking tomatoes for Campbell Soup, Anne Romney made a “lifestyle choice” to stay home with five children. But poor women who make that choice are...
View ArticleWOMEN: What this mom wants for Mother’s Day
You know what mothers like me want for our day? Try: dignity, respect and a place in the U.S. Constitution. A legislative War on Me has stalled the ERA around the U.S. for decades while other countries...
View ArticleGOP: Remember who gave women the vote
I really enjoy the “Today in History” feature of The News Tribune. On Saturday, we learned that on Jan. 12, 1915, the U.S. House of Representatives rejected a constitutional amendment allowing women to...
View ArticleGOP: Party today doesn’t respect women
Re: “Remember who gave women the vote” (letter, 1-15). Republicans today apparently neither respect nor like women. Republicans want to end subsidies to Planned Parenthood, which provides health care...
View ArticleGOP: What has party done for women lately?
Re: “Remember who gave women the vote” (letter, 1-15). The letter writer congratulates Republicans’ efforts to get women the right to vote in 1920. However, that was 93 years ago and it might have been...
View ArticleWOMEN: Men aren’t the greatest role models
Re: “The new womanhood: Hook-ups and jobs” (TNT-10-12). Author Hanna Rosin contends, and the data backs her up, that women are fast becoming their family’s primary breadwinner. She also points out,...
View ArticleWOMEN: Reader columnist strikes chord
Re: “Focus on what we say, not how we sound,” (opinion, 3-9). I am grateful for this piece on women’s voices by Karrie Zylstra Myton. I don’t imagine that it was an easy piece to write, but it touched...
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