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A woman in America runs a greater risk of being killed by her husband or boyfriend than a woman in Pakistan. How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Feminists. (via popmuslim) A woman in America runs a greater risk of being killed by her husband or boyfriend than a woman in Pakistan. A woman in America runs a greater risk of being killed by her husband or boyfriend than a woman in Pakistan. A woman in America runs a greater risk of being killed by her husband or boyfriend than a woman in Pakistan. (via silverqueen) Let me reiterate that for you all … A woman in America runs a greater risk of being killed by her husband or boyfriend than a woman in Pakistan. A woman in America runs a greater risk of being killed by her husband or boyfriend than a woman in Pakistan. A woman in America runs a greater risk of being killed by her husband or boyfriend than a woman in Pakistan. (via dank-potion) I think you’ve missed a crutial point though, let me point it out: A woman in America runs a greater risk of being killed by her husband or boyfriend than a woman in Pakistan. A woman in America runs a greater risk of being killed by her husband or boyfriend than a woman in Pakistan. A woman in America runs a greater risk of being killed by her husband or boyfriend than a woman in Pakistan. (via themindislimitless) I’m going to go ahead and guess that more men are killed by their wives or girlfriends in the United States than in Pakistan, considering women commit quite a few domestic murders in the united states each year. (via espionagis)
The point is that we think of the Middle East as a terrible place for women with oppressive laws and honor killings, when the truth is that technically it’s more dangerous to be a woman here. (via stfuconservatives) |
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I’ll say it again and again and again: Despite all of the partisan rhetoric to the contrary, 100 years from now historians will call this the “Bush Obama Era,” and school kids will have a hard time separating the two.
The number of teen births in the U.S. dropped again in 2010, according to a government report, with nearly every state seeing a decrease. Nationally, the rate fell 9 percent to about 34 per 1,000 girls ages 15 through 19, and the drop was seen among all racial and ethnic groups. Mississippi continues to have the highest teen birth rate, with 55 births per 1,000 girls. New Hampshire has the lowest rate at just under 16 births per 1,000 girls.
This is the lowest national rate for teen births since the Centers for Disease Control began tracking it in 1940, and CDC officials attributed the decline to pregnancy prevention efforts. Other reports show that teenagers are having less sex and using contraception more often. Studies have backed this up. Researchers at the University of Washington in Seattle found that teenagers who received some type of comprehensive sex education were 60 percent less likely to get pregnant or get someone else pregnant. And in 2007, a federal report showed that abstinence-only programs had “no impacts on rates of sexual abstinence.”
But 37 states require sex education that includes abstinence, 26 of which require that abstinence be stressed as the best method. Additionally, research shows that abstinence-only strategies could deter contraceptive use among teenagers, thus increasing their risk of unintended pregnancy.
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) quietly repealed his state’s equal pay law last week, a decision that will make it harder for victims of wage discrimination to sue for lost earnings and back wages. The law was enacted primarily to address the massive pay gap that exists between male and female workers, which is even bigger in Wisconsin than in other states.
