- CodeNow teaching inner-city teens how to code and program – “CodeNow is a Washington, D.C. based program that targets high school students between the ages of 15 and 18 to low-income students, as well as girls and other minority groups that are underrepresented in the areas of technology and computer science.”
- Addressing the shortage of women in Silicon Valley – From Rubbs.
- San Diego DA pushes for new law to protect spousal assault victims – Currently, a spousal assault victim can still be made to pay spousal support to their abuser after divorce. From Mark.
- Pamela Clare, romance, state law, and women’s rights – Pamela Clare is a romance novelist who, after hearing of the shackling of women inmates while giving birth, did her own investigating and then wrote a bill banning it that was passed in Colorado. From Catriona.
- Cute Animal Friday! In case you didn’t catch it on Mad Art Lab on Wednesday, here’s kitten covers (from bibliotequetress). And how about an okapi calf with its adorable striped leggings?
The fact that a women has to pay her rapist is just sickening. I hope that gets fixed really soon.
It sounds as if the judge didn’t have a choice. Is this possible? I thought there were always allowances for, you know, humanity. I’m not a lawyer, though.
A law that precluded alimony in the case of assault would have to be very carefully worded and handled.
I can see it being very easy to agitate someone in a pending divorce to take a swipe or wave a knife at a spouse. A little judicious video editing and – clunk – the philandering, drunken spouse who just played a trick pays no alimony.
I read it as the judge having a choice, but making the wrong one. He said it would be an “abuse of discretion” to choose no spousal support – which means that discretion would allow it, even if it might normally be a stretch. Apparently he was more worried about discretion being abused than he was about the wife’s abuse.
From the silicon valley article, one of the comments:
“While some women excel at STEM careers, the majority simply do not have the cognitive tools to do so at the same level men do. No amount of third wave gender feminist critique can change the laws of nature. In other words, Sticking feathers in you ear does not make you a chicken.”
Seriously.
I am without the words.
Wow, that inmate shackling thing is horrid. It teared me up that the author didn’t just rest easy with her book happy ending. She went out there & made it happen in real life too. That’s inspiring.
I love seeing one of my other favorite blogs (smart bitches) getting some traffic from you guys!
I loved the story about Pamela Clare. As BeardofPants said, That’s inspiring!
The San Diego spousal-rape case is vile. In order to be able to sleep at night, I’m just gonna assume it was an oversight by legislators who just never figured a judge would rule that way. That makes it a vile act by one individual, rather than a collective effort.