President-elect Joe Biden is expected to support federal paid leave benefits for employees. Whether such an agenda can go through with a Republican Senate is questionable. That is unless, Democra...
As if 2020 could not get any worse, this week intellectuals unleashed another pandemic: a new proposed tax. Deutsche Bank suggested that the government lay a 5% “privilege” tax on employees w...
https://rlo.acton.org/archives/117621-deutsche-banks-work-from-home-tax-is-economic-insanity.html
Judge Amy Coney Barrett became Justice Amy Coney Barrett on Monday night. Barrett has called herself “a different kind of lawyer,” and now she’s breaking new barriers. ACB may serve as an i...
https://rlo.acton.org/archives/117434-justice-amy-coney-barrett-a-new-model-for-working-women.html
Members of the Senate Judiciary Committee spent days prodding Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett over the hypothetical possibility that the government may one day outlaw birth control. One e...
https://rlo.acton.org/archives/117365-the-facts-on-amy-coney-barrett-and-banning-contraception.html
Conventional wisdom believes three things: Women are underrepresented in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM); this is largely due to sexual discrimination; and the governme...
https://rlo.acton.org/archives/107754-the-reason-women-dont-enter-stem-professions-revealed.html
As Republicans unveil plans for compulsory paid family leave, they would be well instructed to see how such policies have hurt women’s employment prospects. In Europe, where paid leave is often...
https://rlo.acton.org/archives/107750-downside-paid-family-leave-denmark.html
The “ethnic pay gap” in the UK has been estimated at £3.2 billion ($4.2 billion U.S.), or nearly $200 a week. To rectify this, 15 major employers – including the Bank of England, Deloitte...
https://rlo.acton.org/archives/107020-the-moral-threat-of-measuring-the-pay-gap.html
She was the brightest girl in her class, and 13-year-old Maureen dreamed of an education that would get her out of the poverty that bogged down her hometown of Mudzi, Mashonaland, Zimbabwe. Conti...
https://rlo.acton.org/archives/105853-socialism-and-the-vicious-circle-of-child-marriage.html
The current debate surrounding overcriminalization and juvenile incarceration is often centered around the male prison population. The debate increasingly overlooks the problems that face young g...
https://rlo.acton.org/archives/87718-for-girls-sexual-abuse-is-the-prison-pipeline.html
Young girls kidnapped from their beds. Yazidi women and girls sold into sex trafficking. Rumors of female Muslim teens being used as suicide bombers. It is hard to imagine that Islamic extremists...
https://rlo.acton.org/archives/78569-islamic-states-atrocities-against-women-its-getting-worse.html