Kicking Out Pregnant Girls
Louisiana school says they'll stop kicking out pregnant girls. Read More »
- A 29-year-old woman is suing the Christian college in San Diego, California, which fired her for getting pregnant out of wedlock. The woman had signed a “covenant” agreeing to “moral behavior,” including no premarital sex, but the agreement did not stipulate she would be fired. The school seemed to have no problem with her now-husband’s sex out of wedlock, though, because even after they had fired her, they offered him a job. [Feministing]
- VIDA Women in Literary Arts’ annual byline count of men vs. women is depressing as usual. [Poynter]
- On how working mothers are seen as less competent and more irrational than other women. [The Atlantic]
- Mortgage lenders are also in trubs for disqualifying pregnant women and women on maternity leave from receiving mortgages, which runs afoul of the Fair Housing Act. [MSN]
- A survey about rape/nonconsensual penetration from five years ago has been leaked to the school newspaper, The Daily Princetonian. [Jezebel] Keep reading »
