Cross posted from Madamab http://madamab.wordpress.com
Remember how shocking it was when the allegedly non-partisan National Organization for Women endorsed the all-male ticket of Obama and Biden in the general election? They could have endorsed the all-female ticket of McKinney-Clemente. They could have endorsed the half-female ticket of McCain-Palin. In fact, never in their history had NOW endorsed a Presidential ticket without a woman on it.
Then, of course, there was the bizarre defense of Larry “Wimmins Can’t Do Teh Maths” Summers by Ms. Gandy in the International Herald Tribune.
Yet Kim Gandy, president of the National Organization for Women, said her group’s research actually produced material that recommended him. “One good thing about Larry Summers,” she said, “is that he has written and spoken fairly extensively on the issue of women’s wage inequality and the impact that has on the country.”
Gosh, wouldn’t you think that having more women in math and science would have a positive impact on the country?
Well, now we see what Ms. Gandy expects in return. Word is out on the street, fellow feminists, that Ms. Gandy has her eye on the Directorship of the Women’s Bureau in the U.S. Department of Labor. The mission of the Director of the Womens’ Bureau is described as follows:
Mission Statement
To improve the status of wage-earning women, improve their working conditions, increase their efficiency, and advance their opportunities for profitable employment.
That is, unless they want to be President or Vice-President and they aren’t registered with the “approved” political party! No Greens, Republicans or Independents need apply!
Does it seem right to you that a woman who threw her support behind misogynists like Barack Obama and Larry Summers should have this position? Do you trust the woman who refused to endorse any of the women running for President or Vice President this year with the fate of the female workers of America?
I don’t think this is right, or fair. This is Chicago Pay-to-Play, backroom dealing at its finest. And it’s not what we deserve.
So today at 12 noon, I and my feminist colleagues are protesting Ms. Gandy’s bid throughout the blogosphere.
In the immortal words of Hillary Clinton, whom the President of NOW supported in the primaries: No way, no how, no Kim Gandy.
Women do not all have to agree on every isssue but we do have to agree on one!
All women deserve Equal Rights under The Constitution of the United States
Note from BJ* Isn’t there is a special place in hell reserved for women who do not support each other? Weren’t those the words of our last madam Sect?
Filed under: Corruption, ERA, Feminism, Misogyny/Sexism Tagged: | Chicago Pay-to-Play, Directorship of the Women's Bureau in the U.S. Departme, Kim Gandy, McKinney-Clemente, National Organization for Women, NOW
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We must stand Up against this steady stream of women selling out to the man. We can never gain our rightful place nor our equal rights if we continue to sit at their table and play their game by their rules and sell out our own.
If Kim Gandy wants to play their game -then she needs to pay the price. She should be voted out of both her positions in NOW because she does not represent us the way we want her to and we certainly do not want her in high places in our Govt.
NOW is member driven organization – if not it should be. We the women of the nation should join in droves in the first week of March, National Women’s History Month and as members, we need to be at the June convention and be heard.
Let’s make this OUR organization not in name only- let’s take it over in all 50 states and make it work for us. We do not need a seat at a corrupt table. Let us set our own agenda and at our own table! NOW should be ours now!
Remember March 1st 2009 join your state NOW organization we have nothing to loose but one year membership dues.
No, it doesn’t seem right.
The actions of NOW, especially during the general election, remind me of the old saying: “There’s a special place in hell for women who don’t support other women.”
Being raised by a single mother, and championing a woman for president, I’m sensitive to these issues too.
Keep up the good fight. Let there be no doubt, you’re on the right side of these battles.