Tag: Gender Issues

It's the garment - not the person's gender - that results in higher dry-cleaning bills. (Thinkstock)

Beltway Confidential

Dry cleaners press Obama over ‘gender-gap’ rhetoric

Ashe Schow · April 16, 2014 4:00 am

India’s Transgenders Celebrate Historic Ruling

India’s Transgenders Celebrate Historic Ruling

Washington Examiner · April 15, 2014 9:11 pm

Indian eunuchs dance after Supreme Courtâs verdict recognizing third gender category, in Nagpur, India, Tuesday, April 15, 2014. India's top court on Tuesday issued a landmark verdict recognizing transgender rights as human rights, saying people can identify themselves as a third gender on official documents. (AP Photo)

India’s top court recognizes third gender category

Nirmala George · April 15, 2014 1:36 pm

New rules issued by Obama's Treasury Department force many department employees with kids to burn a vacation day or take unpaid leave whenever snow shuts down the district. (Thinkstock)

Obama talks about pay gap, but then punishes working mothers

Timothy P. Carney · April 15, 2014 4:00 am

There are several race and sex issues that need addressing. (Thinkstock)

An alternative approach to the gender pay gap

Joseph Lawler · April 15, 2014 4:00 am

Tuesday was dubbed "National Equal Pay Day." (Thinkstock)

The ’77 percent’ statistical fraud on gender pay gap issue

Thomas Sowell · April 15, 2014 4:00 am

Rep. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., shown here in November 2012, is one of two female veterans who serve in Congress. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Female veterans highlight military experience in quest for Congress

Tim Mak · April 14, 2014 4:00 am

Congressional staffers watch a House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing on Thursday, Oct. 24, 2013, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

Report: Men paid more than women on Capitol Hill staffs

Sean Lengell · April 14, 2014 4:00 am

Council of Economic Advisers member Betsey Stevenson, shown here at the White House on March 12,ÃÂ admitted that the 77 cents figure is misleading. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Dems play politics with bogus 77-cent differential in male-female pay

Michael Barone · April 13, 2014 4:00 am

President Obama speaks in the East Room of the White House in Washington on Tuesday during an event marking Equal Pay Day. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Obama reiterates call for equal pay for women

Associated Press · April 12, 2014 12:49 pm

In this April 7, 2014 photo, Indian women travel in the ladies compartment of a local train in Mumbai, India. Women form more than 49 percent of India's 814 million voters, but many of them, especially in rural India, feel their concerns are not taken seriously by political parties, and that they take a back seat to men in everything from health care to education to legal protection. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

In rural India, women want politicians to deliver

Nirmala George · April 11, 2014 7:04 am

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington on Tuesday. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Beltway Confidential

Harry Reid blocks Republican request to pass bill cracking down on rapists

Joel Gehrke · April 11, 2014 4:00 am