Times leader competition
1. Should women planning to have children expect to be assessed by prospective employers on exactly the same basis as candidates not planning to have children? Should women returning to their jobs after maternity leave expect the same pay and status as they had before? Should employers be penalised for discriminating against women in either case.2. “Opening doors” was once the slogan of the US Federal National Mortgage Association, colloquially known as Fannie Mae. American taxpayers now face the displeasing irony of playing an involuntary role in keeping the doors open at Fannie Mae and its sibling, Freddie Mac (the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation).
3. They should, perhaps, have seen it coming. Christians have been speaking out in public ever since the Pentecostal gift of tongues demolished the language barrier and spread the good word around the world. And was it not from the aisles and pews of St Mary the Virgin in Putney beside the Thames that Cromwell and the Levellers went back and forth in 1647, ranting and praying, on universal suffrage, God's place in civil society and what should be done about the King?
Mmmm...tricky one. No.2 is the obvious choice because of the subject, but it doesn't quite seem right.
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posted by Matthew @ 7/15/2008 08:51:00 AM
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