(from Tara Romano, President, NCWU)
North Carolina women started 2013 with a detailed research report on our status, reflecting the results of years of advocacy for policies recognizing our rights as full, valued citizens of this state. The report showed how far our advocacy had taken us, but also gaps where we could do better. Instead of using this data as a road map toward full equality for all women of North Carolina, however, many in our government and communities instead presented us with their narrow vision of womanhood – one in which we never need assistance raising our families, always have a husband to support us economically, never experience sexual/domestic violence or unplanned pregnancies, and have nothing but time on Election Day when we want to cast our ballot. [more…]
Moral March on Raleigh, Saturday, Feb. 8th
