NYC lawsuit: Women's studies program discriminates - Page 3

tristanrobin · #21 (**permalink**) 08-21-2008, 10:49 AM

from all these comments (admittedly, being clever), it's clear that most have no idea what a women's studies program is about.

it's NOT about good manners.

saltwn · #22 (**permalink**) 08-21-2008, 10:22 PM

This link Feminist.com:::News
On a womens studies /womens issues resource site offers this article

WMC Election Dispatch In November, Women Will Vote With Health Care In Mind by Judy Waxman -- August 21, 2008

Quote:

August 21, 2008

Women vote for health care, and with good reason.

Today, women across the country are being forced to make impossible choices in the name of health care; sacrificing life and limb so that they can get coverage for…a broken limb, or prenatal care. They resign themselves to unhappy marriages in order to keep their husbands’ health insurance, reports the New York Times. They step out of line at the pharmacy when they realize that they can’t afford to pay the cost or even the co-pay on their prescriptions and fill up the tank. Indeed, in 2004, according to the Kaiser Women’s Health Survey, one in five women did not fill a prescription because of the cost.
I submit this is a universal issue regardless of gender.
The nation’s health care system is in crisis, and women are bearing the brunt of its failures. Throughout their lives, women have greater health care needs and responsibilities than men. Reproductive health needs require them to get regular check-ups, whether or not they have children, and women are more likely than men to suffer from a chronic condition or disability. Meanwhile, eight in ten mothers are primarily responsible for taking their child to doctors’ appointments and organizing follow-up care.

No. women are just more likely to complain about it.
In other words, health care is a woman’s issue.

cnredd · #23 (**permalink**) 08-21-2008, 11:36 PM

I could care less if it's a womens' issue...

It's not in the Constitution, and the government (and anyone in the public) has no right to pretend there's a "right" to it..."no

dga · #24 (**permalink**) 08-22-2008, 10:46 AM

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Originally Posted by saltwn

The nation’s health care system is in crisis, and women are bearing the brunt of its failures. Throughout their lives, women have greater health care needs and responsibilities than men. Reproductive health needs require them to get regular check-ups, whether or not they have children, and women are more likely than men to suffer from a chronic condition or disability. Meanwhile, eight in ten mothers are primarily responsible for taking their child to doctors’ appointments and organizing follow-up care.

No. women are just more likely to complain about it.
In other words, health care is a woman’s issue. [/url]

Obviously, if it is a women's studies course, they will focus on issues from a woman's perspective, duh, if not it would be just a regular course,

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I beg to differ on the healthcare issue which while I understand is universal, certainly puts much more constraints on women who have to have yearly examinations that go beyond a physical, not to mention mammograms, pre-natal health, etc. etc. You should take time and focus on another part of the article...

Women who do not have access to employer sponsored health insurance or are ineligible for public coverage like Medicaid or Medicare are left with no option other than to try to buy health insurance directly from insurers, known as the individual market. But women face unique challenges in this arena. They may be denied coverage based on a (so-called) pre-existing condition—such as ever having had a Caesarean section, as reported recently in the New York Times. When women are offered insurance, they are often forced to pay higher premiums than men, as it is legal in 40 states and the District of Columbia to consider gender when setting insurance premiums. Furthermore, the benefit package a woman receives may be woefully inadequate; even something as fundamental as maternity care is often excluded from the basic plans available in the individual market.

There are issues that affect men and women differently from a societal standpoint, that goes beyond equal wages, or equal treatment. I still don't see any evidence that it is about whining depressed females watching Oprah.

saltwn · #25 (**permalink**) 08-22-2008, 01:20 PM

Why do you think insurance companies were the big opponents of ERA?
They play that "statistics" game with every aspect of the insured. Car insurance is one. Young men's are usually higher while the next age bracket adjustment comes when we are all in our middle working years and then women's becomes higher. Somehow a mom with kids is a more dangerous driver than her husband or male counterpart!
If a man has had any previous surgery or illness he is also denied coverage under the same rules.
If we all got together with gays and men to promote how insurance companies are duping us and passed ERA (to include sexual orientation) we would be better served than making health care for women a unique issue.

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