Celebrating Women's Equality Day with Maurer School of Law's Deborah Widiss

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Date
2021-08-23
Main contributors
Smith, Kenny; Widiss, Deborah
Summary
Women's Equality Day, marks the anniversary of the Nineteenth Amendment, which guarantees all American women the right to vote is marked this month. As we celebrate the 101 anniversary of its certification, we talked with Deborah Widiss, a professor and associate dean for research in the Maurer School of Law, about the issues we face today.

Professor Widiss' bio: https://www.law.indiana.edu/about/people/bio.php?name=widiss-deborah   

Professor Widiss has written several essays and op-eds regarding parental paid leave for single parents, which we touched on in this podcast. You can find two of them here: 

"Parental leave laws don’t do enough for single moms – but there’s a way to fix that"  

https://theconversation.com/parental-leave-laws-dont-do-enough-for-single-moms-but-theres-a-way-to-fix-that-137360 

"Parental leave laws are failing single parents" 

https://theconversation.com/parental-leave-laws-are-failing-single-parents-129668
Publisher
The Media School at Indiana University
Genre
Interview
Subjects
Current events; Women's rights
Locations
Bloomington; Indiana
Collection
On Topic with IU Podcast
Unit
The Media School
Language
English
Rights Statement
In Copyright
Other Identifier
Other: MSA.OTIU.00054

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