Legal Momentum had planned this month as a celebratory one to toast the 20th Anniversary of the passage of the Violence Against Women Act and LM’s role.
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Legal Momentum is thrilled to congratulate our colleague Sarah Deer on being named a 2014 MacArthur Fellow. Sarah has long been a member of the National Judicial Education Program faculty, and has worked with Legal Momentum to educate judges across the country about the serious problem of sexual and domestic violence against Native American women, who suffer one of the highest per capita rates of violent crime in the world.
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Legal Momentum's President and CEO, Carol Robles Román, is speaking out in the media in the wake of the high-profile Ray Rice domestic violence case, calling for accountability for judges and prosecutors in prosecuting perpetrators, stronger laws to protect victims and innovative services like Family Justice Centers.
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Today, Legal Momentum teamed up with top law professors and women’s rights groups to file a “friend of the court” brief supporting a pregnant truck driver in an important case in the United States Supreme Court, explaining that women in traditionally male-dominated occupations are especially susceptible to pregnancy discrimination on the job.
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September 2014 marks the 20th anniversary of the passage of the Violence Against Women Act, so it’s time to put on our party hats and celebrate VAWA’s wonderful accomplishments!
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Educators across the nation continue to witness the problem of gender disparity in programs/coursework that focus on construction, engineering, computers, science, technology, and math. Many educators continue to justify the status quo by arguing that girls do not have a natural or instinctive desire to participate in technical careers. The idea that a particular career is “too masculine” or is considered for “boys only,” cannot and should not prevent schools from recruiting girls to these programs.
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The American Bar Association Commission on Domestic & Sexual Violence has honored Legal Momentum’s Vice President and Director of the National Judicial Education Program Lynn Hecht Schafran with the 2014 Sharon L. Corbitt Award.
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At 2 p.m. last Thursday, things came to a halt in Rosebud, South Dakota.
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Beginning July 22, 2014, the Tradeswomen Tuesdays series of inspiring profiles of tradeswomen will be hosted on the Equal Rights Advocates blog. Equal Rights Advocates is a member of the Task Force on Tradeswomen Issues.
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Skills. Sisterhood. Stamina. These are the words that come to mind when I think of the tradeswomen I have met and spoken to over the course of my two month summer internship with Legal Momentum. It has been an absolute honor to hear your stories and be entrusted with the job of sharing them through this blog. Before working on this project for Legal Momentum, I knew very little about the construction industry and tradeswomen. Now, I am fascinated not only by the construction industry, but by the amazing women I have met in the building and construction trades.