Days after hundreds of thousands of women gathered in Washington, D.C., to stand up for women's rights, a new report from the National Women's Law Center details the Bush administration's relentless attack on women's interests over the last four years. According to the American Prospect, the report cites, among other things, "the abolishment of the Equal Pay Matters Initiative; the cut in funding for programs that advocate gender equity in education; the reduction in the number of children served by the Child Care and Development Block Grant, which helps low- and moderate-income families afford child care; and the proposal to fund support services for domestic violence victims at 26 percent below the authorized level." The report concludes: "In ways both well-publicized and carefully hidden, glaring and subtle, the Bush administration is taking steps to roll back women's progress in every aspect of their lives -- their opportunities to succeed at work and in school, their economic security, their health and reproductive rights."
Progress Report article
Women in Venezuela now have higher standards and better protections under the law.
....but hey, go ahead and vote for HeMan Bush. Do what you want....you will anyway.
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