Category Archives: Equality

March 31st is International Transgender Day of Visibility, a day dedicated to celebrating transgender people and raising awareness of the discrimination that they face. I have a Facebook friend who is transitioning and I have been following her posts as she describes the physical changes as well as practical matters such as legally changing herContinue reading “A Profile in Courage”

The Equal Rights Amendment is a proposed amendment to the United States Constitution designed to guarantee equal legal rights for all American citizens regardless of sex. It seeks to end the legal distinctions between men and women in terms of divorce, property, employment, and other matters. “Equality of rights under the law shall not beContinue reading “Get the ERA Passed”

One of my springtime rituals is to watch Ken Burn’s “Baseball” documentary in anticipation of the baseball season. The documentary is structured into innings that cover individual decades. Last night, I watched the 1940s disc, much of which is devoted to Jackie Robinson and his historic breaking of Major League Baseball’s color barrier. The BrooklynContinue reading “An American Hero”

One of the principles of democracy is one person, one vote. However, the United States has a structural problem that the Founders did not anticipate. The vote of a Wyomingite carries more weight than a Californian because of the small-state bias of the Senate and the Electoral College. And the residents of the District ofContinue reading “Voting Rights in an Equality Issue”

An author that has influenced my worldview is linguist/cognitive scientist George Lakoff. Two of his books are Moral Politics and Don’t Think of an Elephant. Both books explore the differences in how liberals and conservative think and provide recommendations on how to frame political arguments. One of the metaphors that Lakoff uses is the “strictContinue reading “A Pecking Order that Needs to Be Shaken Up”

You may have seen the meme that illustrates the difference between equality and equity in one of its many variations. You know the one with the three children of different heights standing on boxes to look over a fence and watch a ball game. In the first panel labelled Equality, each child has a box.Continue reading “One Step Further”