Women's Rights in the Workplace

Women's Rights in the Workplace - 09/08/14

What is personal injury law and how does it compensate people who've been seriously hurt?

Join women's rights advocates Jack Tuckner and Deborah O'Rell as they're joined by Edward Steinberg, Esq., a top-flight NY personal injury attorney (read Eddy's comments in the Daily News on the potential for Joan Rivers's estate to recover millions for her untimely death), as he colorfully explains the ins and outs of personal injury litigation on behalf of people who have been seriously hurt, both on and off the job.  

Women’s Rights in the Workplace - Male Privilege - 08/25/14

Male privilege refers to men having unearned social, economic, and political advantages or rights that are granted to them solely on the basis of their sex, and which are usually denied to women.   Join Women's Rights advocates Jack Tuckner & Deborah O’Rell as they discuss the very real and discriminatory phenomenon known as male privilege--a close relation to white privilege (and corporate privilege)--what it is and why it’s so firmly entrenched in our patriarchal culture. 

Women's Rights in the Workplace - We Are Woman - 08/18/14

Corporations are now people (with religious freedom, no less), women, not so much.  Join Jack & Deborah as the interview Alaina LaTourette, Vice President and Co-Chair of We Are Woman, a national advocacy group of individual community members and volunteer agencies whose collective vision is to drive positive change to protect the rights of women and families, to contribute to reversing anti-woman legislation throughout the United States, and ratify the ERA.  Their exciting discussion ranges from the recent abomination known as corporate personhood, a fiction created by the corrupt majority Supreme Court, to the fact that after 91 years of effort, women are still not officially protected as equal to men (and corporations) under the US Constitution, and hear Alaina define what true reproductive justice would look like if all women’s reproductive health and rights were honored and supported.  And don’t miss the Constitution Day Rally and Day of Action in Washington, DC on September 12 & 13, 2014.  Please join us.

 

Women's Rights in the Workplace - Got Special Ed? - 07/28/14

Do you know about the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, one of our most awesome federal civil rights laws?  The IDEA ensures services to children with disabilities throughout the nation, as it governs how states and public agencies provide early intervention, special education and related services to more than 6.5 million eligible infants, toddlers, children and youth with disabilities.  Which means that if a child has a disability, no matter how minor or profound, the school district must provide whatever additional services are necessary to provide an optimal education for that child.  Can you imagine trying to pass a law like this in today's Congress?  

Join Jack Tuckner & Deborah O'Rell as they interview one of the most prominent IDEA attorneys in the country, George Zelma, Esq., whose practice focuses on special education law, representing families of children with special needs at impartial hearings, suspension hearings, manifestation reviews and in United States district court. 

George breaks it down and explains the complex law in lay terms so anyone can understand the rights of all children to a quality education, and why that saves money for all of us and is good for America to boot (not to mention the right thing to do morally, ethically and practically. 

Women's Rights in the Workplace - 07/14/14

6 million undocumented workers in the US are among the most vulnerable and exploited, and they’re the frequent victims of discrimination, unpaid wages, outright wage theft, dangerous working conditions and uncompensated workplace injuries, and when these workers attempt to remedy the abuse, they routinely face physical and immigration-related threats and retaliation.  Now we have a serious and heart-breaking refugee crisis at our border with 60,000 children arriving who’ve fled extreme violence in Central America, with the slim hope in their hearts of gaining asylum and safety in the United States.

Join Women’s Rights in the Workplace activists Jack Tuckner and Deborah O’Rell as they interview the brilliant and progressive immigration law expert Professor Vanessa Merton of the Justice Clinic at Pace University Law School, who discusses this humanitarian crisis, who or what's responsible, and what can and should be done about it. 

Women's Rights in the Workplace - 07/07/14

In our challenging times of diminishing work, jobs and opportunity, let Jack Tuckner and Deborah O'rell provide insight into what comprises a legitimate claim of workplace age and/or disability discrimination.  Are you over 40 and were you fired and replaced by someone substantially younger?  What can you do about it?  Were you terminated due to a disability from an injury sustained on the job or due to an illness, or just because your employer believes you're disabled?  Get empowered with knowledge of the law and the practical application of it to your particular workplace situation, and remember, whatever else you do, don't quit! 

Women's Rights in the Workplace - The Next Generation of Title IX - 06/30/14

Sexual Harassment, Sexual Abuse and Bullying Based on Sex

How You Can Use Title IX To Empower Yourself and Change Your School Environment

Jack Tuckner goes on a decidedly non-mansplaining tear, unpacking the history and impact of the powerful 42-year-old civil rights legislation known as Title IX, its history, and its success in opening up athletic and academic opportunities for women, while he debunks its nonsensical detractors.  Most importantly, Jack raises awareness regarding the use of Title IX to address and prevent sexual violence, as an unsafe and sexually hostile, abusive or discriminating school environment violates Title IX.  Know your rights, know your IX, get involved, make a difference.

Women's Rights in the Workplace - 06/24/14

Meet the founder of Feminist.com!  Jack Tuckner and Deborah O’Rell interview Marianne Schnall, a highly regarded journalist who has been at the forefront of issues related to women’s leadership for decades.  She has interviewed everyone from Maya Angelou to Melinda Gates and most recently, President Jimmy Carter and Arianna Huffington as part of her ongoing coverage that has been featured in publications ranging from Huffington Post to Time and O, the Oprah Magazine.

 

Marianne’s first book was Daring to Be Ourselves: Influential Women Share Insights on Courage, Happiness and Finding Your Own Voice, which included a collection of interviews of reputable women leaders and which inspired the format of What Will it Take to Make a Woman President? Conversations About Women, Leadership & Power, which was built around the question posed by her 8 year old daughter following the election of President Obama.

 

Marianne is also founder of Feminist.com, which was started in 1995 working with a team of influential women and organizations, and is currently working to grow her book into a larger movement and organization to harness the ideas of the women and men she has interviewed and to advance the cause of women’s leadership in partnership with Political Parity and other national organizations across the country. 

 

Women's Rights in the Workplace - Stress and Work-Life Balance Part II (or, Why You Still Hate Work) - 06/17/14

As actor Jim Carrey said in a recent inspired commencement address played in part on this show, many people make decisions based in fear disguised as practicality, when they could instead ask the universe for what they really want--and are passionate about manifesting in their lives--just like Jim did, and his father did not.

Similarly, 70% of American employees feel that work is a dispiriting and depleting experience.  Demands from the workplace, home, and life in general are pushing more and more people to burnout.  Join Women's Rights in the Workplace Advocates Jack Tuckner and Deborah O'Rell as they continue chatting with Joy Murphy, ACC, an executive and life coach specializing in leadership development and personal growth, regarding what steps stressed out and unhappy employees can take to regain control over their burned out lives.

A Slap at Sex Stereotypes - 06/09/14

Join Jack Tuckner and Deborah O’Rell as they rant and bemoan the underused legal theory of “sex plus” discrimination, the practice of making employment decisions based on differentiations between employees within the same gender because of an additional “plus” characteristic.  Examples include discriminatory practices affecting members of one gender (always female, as a practical matter), combined with an additional factor, such as women with young children, or single women, or women of a certain age, etc.