Clinton Busy Helping Women
September 17, 2008
by Sheryl Lee
|While Senators and Obama and McCain are busy duking it out on the campaign trail, Senator Clinton is busy fighting for the women’s rights.
Here are a few excerpts from a HillGram sent out Tuesday. The New Agenda is excited that one of our platform issues, The Fair Pay Act, is a focus of Senator Clinton.
FIGHTING FOR EQUAL PAY
Hillary is sponsoring two important bills to ensure that women finally get equal pay for their work. The Paycheck Fairness Act will strengthen existing laws and enforcement, while the Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act will overturn the recent Supreme Court decision that has made it even more difficult for women workers to get the pay they deserve.
TAKING ON THE PENTAGON’S HANDLING OF SEXUAL ASSAULT
Hillary introduced legislation to improve the Pentagon’s handling of sexual assaults on service members. She acted as a result of troubling reports that too many sexual assaults in the military go unreported and the finding by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) which criticized the response by the Department of Defense to sexual assaults.
REMEMBERING WOMEN’S HISTORY
The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee has approved the National Women’s Rights History Project Act, introduced by Hillary in the Senate and by Congresswoman Slaughter in the House. The Act preserves and promotes historic landmarks of the women’s suffrage movement so that more Americans will learn about this important chapter in our nation’s history.
Yeah Hillary!
Thank you for standing up for the women of our country – regardless of political party!
I like the focus on education, but it’s not enough. I want someone to promote Women’s History Month as part of the mandatory curriculum in grades K-12, just like black history month is. I want little girls across America to come home from school in March just brimming with excitement and enthusiasm for, say, Margaret Mead. I spent my daughter’s grade school experience watching this happen to her with Booker T. Washington and Martin Luther King, Jr, but she never once came home and said, “Mom, we covered Eliza Pickney today! She was so cool!” (Though she, of course, knows who Eliza Pickney is because I am her mom.
Anna Belle,
I ran Women’s History Month activities for the PTA at my children’s school this year. At least in my school district, in addition to the extra goodies that the PTA put on, the school curriculum also includes WHM during all of March for each grade K-5 (not sure if they do so 6-12). Check with your school board as to whether there is a state or federal mandate.
Sadly, our PTA decided to discontinue PTA WHM programs despite my protests. One battle at a time.
Amy
Thanks for the response, Amy. I already know it’s not supported in Indiana, where I live.
I am a substitute teacher, so I use that opportunity to slip info to kids when I can. I also teach adult education at night, where I also take the opportunity to teach women’s history. All of my Power Point presentations on things like thesis development and sentence structure use sentences from essays I’ve written about women’s history. It’s a passion of mine.
Next year I’d like to get off my butt and actually develop a dream idea I have of volunteering my services to local schools during March. My idea is to develop myself as a character based on Elizabeth Cady Stanton and go around to schools giving presentations and fielding questions in costume and in character. Kinda like what that guy from Virginia does with Thomas Jefferson (I forget his name, sorry). I always wanted to do it, but I never had extra cash or time to put that kind of thing together.
Slythwolf, I just accidentally deleted your comment about Women’s History month. I’m so sorry. My computer got hung up when I was in the comment queue.
Here’s what slythwolf originally said:
All the leftist Clinton haters/Obama Kool Aid drinkers are yelling choice choice choice….yet Seems to me Sen Hillary and President Clinton have no choice. They are dragged out there to show support for Obama. Obama needs a real woman to win. I say he and his thugs spent alot of time calling her “Annie Oakly” and supported Rev. Wrights calling her names…now they want her …no wait….DEMAND that she goes out and helps them do what THEY thought…that they did not need her and the President!!!
Yea…a woman’s choice….she has none. I am voting for McCain because I am too mad at the treatment of Sen Clinton…I am too mad to see the way they called my President Clinton a racist…and called him names…sorry but Howard Dean and Obama can go to …you know where!
I agree Racheal!!! Sen. Hillary deserves kudos for all she has done for women. Because of her…a Sarah Palin is possiable and more!!! My heart hurts that she was robbed. I keep going back to what President Clinton said about her and John McCain…that they are friends and have a good working relatonship. If there is to be a McCain Presidency…I pray Reid steps aside and let’s Hillary become speaker. With her relationship with McCain and his working with her…things would get done…LOL LOL LOL both far wings of the parties will not like it but the American people will be the better.
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