Kim Gandy
Kim Gandy
Kim Gandyis an American feminist who from 2001 to 2009 was the president of the National Organization for Women. She has been president and CEO of the National Network to End Domestic Violence since 2012. In 2009, Gandy was a resident fellow at the Institute of Politics at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. From January 2010 to October 2012 she was vice president and general counsel at the Feminist Majority Foundation in...
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We know from Wood's experience that it's not a very welcome atmosphere for women's rights advocacy at the agency.
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We know what's at stake and we won't go back.
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I thought, you know, this doesn't look right, ... And I got involved in NOW. I saw them talking about this very law, which was called the Head and Master law, and the next seven years getting rid of it.
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A lot of strong women there. But sometimes it is a tough place to make progress on our issues.
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an outrage and an insult to the women of this country.
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This is not just about South Dakota. Women's rights, women's health and women's lives are on the line.
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It is an outrage and an insult to the women of this country that George W. Bush has nominated such a jurist to be chief justice of the United States,
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He's a very smart lawyer and he's giving legalistic answers that are probably accurate. He doesn't want to lie. But he's giving answers that under some legal analysis do tip his hand, and it's very bad news for women.
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He got the message loud and clear, didn't he?
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That book changed women's lives. It opened women's minds to the idea that there actually might be something more. And for the women who secretly harbored such unpopular thoughts, it told them that there were other women out there like them who thought there might be something more to life.
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At this time, with the country's leadership in turmoil and confidence in the government steadily declining, now more than ever we need stability.
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The message we delivered was that he needs to distinguish himself from Gov. Bush,
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not only upset the delicate balance on this Supreme Court, but also extend his right-wing ideology and disregard for individual rights to the third branch of government -- the judiciary.
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Abusers are engineers and architects and janitors and police officers and any other walk of life. There's not a job or profession that is exempt.