The Gender Equality Checkpoint

[xoxoxoBruce]

They were helping the war effort but also angling for the vote... it worked.

[BigV]

Look at that hoe!

[xoxoxoBruce]

An interesting read, the year of the woman.

According to our data, women have won 65 percent (90 of 138) of decided open Democratic primary races featuring at least one man and one woman. About 46 percent of all women who ran for office won the nomination — a stat we’ll call “win rate.” Men’s win rate has been just 23 percent (although part of their lower win rate is simply that more male candidates are competing against each other and, obviously, only one person can win each race). Women make up 48 percent (114 out of 2384) of the Democratic nominees in primaries that have been decided so far even though only 32 percent (263 of 811) of the candidates we analyzed were women. So, women are clearly having greater success than men.

In fact, all else being equal, being a woman has been worth an additional 10 percentage points over being a man in the open Democratic primaries we looked at.5 That’s one of the two biggest effects we found among all the variables we looked at. (The other variable with a similarly sized effect was having previously held elected office — more on this in a moment.)

[sexobon]

Well, the POTUS has followed in the footsteps of his predecessors and issued the annual proclamation:

… NOW, THEREFORE, I, DONALD J. TRUMP, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim August 26, 2018, as Women’s Equality Day. I call upon the people of the United States to celebrate the achievements of women and observe this day with appropriate programs and activities. …

Congratulations American women, the double-edged sword awaits you for another year.

[tw]

The Don lied again. It is habitual.

[sexobon]

Takes one to know one.

[tw]

Originally Posted by sexobon

Takes one to know one.

When you talk to the mirror, does it also talk back?

[BigV]

How do you know?

[sexobon]

The same way I know you are but what am I.

[sexobon]

The mirrors talk only to you. What appears to be reflections are redundancies in your posts.

[xoxoxoBruce]

You've come a long way baby... er Ms.

[sexobon]

It's about time that the experts in gossip were suitably employed for information gathering in the interest of national security. Probably not so good for the Bond types though.

Sisterhood of spies: Women now hold the top positions at the CIA

CIA Director Gina Haspel has appointed another woman to the top level of the agency, naming Cynthia "Didi" Rapp as deputy director for analysis, essentially the top analyst in the CIA. The appointment means that the top three directorates of the agency, for operations, analysis and science and technology are now all headed by women. ...

Now there's probably an assassin waiting for me if I go outside the country. I can only hope that she does me before doing me in.

[xoxoxoBruce]

That makes sense, they were always better at gathering gossip.

However despite progress in management, since Roe vs Wade individual states have prosecuted women for...

FETAL ASSAULT
DEPRAVED HEART MURDER
DELIVERY OF A CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE
CHEMICAL ENDANGERMENT OF A FETUS
MANSLAUGHTER
SECOND-DEGREE MURDER
FETICIDE
CHILD ABUSE
RECKLESS INJURY TO A CHILD
CONCEALING A BIRTH
CONCEALING A DEATH
ABUSE OF A CORPSE
NEGLECT OF A MINOR
ATTEMPTED PROCUREMENT OF A MISCARRIAGE
RECKLESS HOMICIDE

so you've got a long way to go, baby.

[xoxoxoBruce]

This lovely lady was ahead of her time.
Her husband bought her a car and she put 6,000 miles on it the first year.
That was a lot of work in 1907/8 when the roads in NJ and vicinity were crude at best.
That was not the car she drove cross country.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Not just another pretty face...