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Developing and advancing policies that enhance people’s freedom.
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As America enters a new decade, progressives are stepping boldly into … the bra-burning feminism of the 1970s. Specifically, they’re trying to resurrect the Equal Rights Amendment, the radical feminist constitutional amendment the rest of us had long thought a dead issue.
If they manage to ratify—a dubious constitutional proposition—they could enshrine left-wing gender dogmas into the highest law of the land. The amendment’s language sounds unobjectionable enough: “Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex.” But precisely because of its broad language, the amendment could open the gateway to all manner of constitutional claims most Americans reject.
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Policy Priorities for Women in 2020
  
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A: AB 5 will simply protect workers’ rights.
B: Hundreds of freelance workers have already lost their jobs.
C: People are being stripped of the work flexibility that they seek.
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In 2018, Americans gave $428 billion to various charities and causes, from religious institutions to animal rights organizations. Two out of three American households donate to charity in a given year. Unfortunately, private giving has become a target for greater government control. Anonymity is critical in philanthropy. Forcing the disclosure of private information exposes donors to retaliation, harassment, and harm. Limiting the charitable deduction or limiting the deduction only to certain causes could erode the diversity of the charitable sector and discourage some charitable giving. Wealth taxes would also reduce giving. We should be wary of increasing government’s role in the charitable sector.
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- Good intentions, bad outcomes: the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) will hurt women.
- Most Americans want men and women to be equal. That’s as it should be. But “equal” does not mean “the same.”
- Despite its promise of "equality," the ERA will backfire. If enacted, it will make it legally questionable for public policy to reflect actual differences between males and females and will, thus, put in jeopardy a wide range of policies and programs designed to support women and girls.
- Passage of the ERA will call into question the status of hundreds, if not thousands, of laws regarding private spaces and safety, draft and combat, and benefits to women. It also: eliminates women as a legal category, takes power away from voters, and offers a false promise of equal pay.
- The ERA has no upside. Women already have legal equality. Men and women share the same basic constitutional rights to free speech, religious liberty, and trial by jury, among others.
- The ERA ratification process is illegitimate. By the 1982 deadline, only 35 of the necessary 38 states (the constitutionally required three-fourths) had ratified the amendment. ERA supporters seek to ignore the five state recissions that occurred in the intervening years.
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Hats off to J. K. Rowling. In a now-famous tweet, the creator of Harry Potter, has “changed the transgender debate.” Rowling’s tweet doesn't take a stand on transgenderism. But rather, she takes a position on the destruction of Maya Forstater for having an opinion that dissents from the beliefs of transgender activists. Maya Forstater, an internationally recognized tax expert, formerly worked at a London think tank called the Centre for Global Development. No more. She was fired because she said that a transgender woman is still a man. She said that this view is “rooted in biological fact.” The outrage!
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In an article titled, “Dear Millennials, Our Avocado Toast Is Prosperity,” Evie Magazine pushes back against millennials such as Charlotte Alter and AOC who say that “people our age have never experienced American prosperity in our adult lives.” Evie continues on to explain that “the statements of the two young women are indicative of a subset of millennials entirely out of touch with and ungrateful for the privileges of modern American society.” Many millennials enjoy their juice bars and spin classes but continue to bemoan the lack of American prosperity. What do they think prosperity looks like?
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Remember when the ACLU was taken seriously, even if you often disagreed with its legal positions? Well, that was then. Now, the once-venerable civil liberties organization is demanding tampons in men’s bathrooms. The ACLU seeks to eliminate “menstrual-related discrimination” in favor of "menstrual equality."
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