Celebrating Women's Equality Day with Maurer School of Law's Deborah Widiss
- Date
2021-08-23
- Main contributors
Smith, Kenny; Widiss, Deborah
- Summary
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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
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- Other Identifier
Other: MSA.OTIU.00054
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