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IWF Podcast: Women in the Workplace

info@iwf.org (Allison Kasic) info@iwf.org (Carrie L. Lukas) — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 09:00:00 EDT

Allison Kasic and Carrie Lukas discuss several issues pertaining to women in the workplace, including the wage gap and mandated paid leave.

Thomas Sowell on Higher Education

info@iwf.org (Allison Kasic) — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 14:50:00 EST

National Review's website has featured a series of interviews with Thomas Sowell this week. In the third installment, Peter Robinson and Sowell discuss several issues pertaining to higher education including grade inflation, the problems associated with faculty tenure, and the lack of market forces within the academy. It's well worth a watch.

The video is available here.

Update: The rest of the series is great, too. Part onedeals with women in the workplace (note that Sowell's research shows, as IWF has said for years, that the key variable in women obtaining high level positions is child rearing, not discrimination as the wage gap theorists claim), part two deals with income levels and social mobility, part four tackles more issues pertaining to higher education including the price of tuition, and the final installment deals with fallacies associated with race.

PBS' To the Contrary: Iowa caucus, women business owners, and sex-segregated sports

info@iwf.org (Michelle D. Bernard) — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 13:04:00 EST

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Is Globalization Really the Evil Monster People Think it is?

info@iwf.org (Anne Trenolone) — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 13:00:00 EST

I heard an interesting commentary piece on NPR, to be exact it ran on Marketplace, last evening that links in well with IWF's upcoming event: Success in the Global Economy: An Agenda for the 110th Congress which is focusing on the US economy in the context of globalization.

The piece notes an article that ran in The Wall Street Journal, "A Globalization Winner Joins in Trade Backlash" that contains this eyebrow raising statistic:

The latest Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll conducted earlier this month found that 60% of voters nationwide agreed with the statement that "foreign trade has been bad for the U.S. economy.

Of note is that the Marketplace commentary offered up by Paul Krugman was not exactly what I expected. Krugman is a columnist for The New York Times whose latest book is called The Conscience of a Liberal and his warning to Democratic presidential candidates is "Cool the Globalization Rhetoric". The intro to the piece sums it up this way:

A funny thing's happening on the way to the Democratic presidential nomination. The Wall Street Journal pointed it out the other day. Iowa voters are worried about the after-effects of globalization. So worried that the major Democratic candidates are working overtime talking down free trade. Globalization is turning into a hot-button campaign issue. Republicans are having their problems, too.
But commentator Paul Krugman says, its effects on the U.S. economy are overblown.

Krugman himself offers this:

Let's start with the idea that globalization makes it impossible for American workers to earn good wages. The facts say otherwise.

Both pieces offer a good picture of the globalization debate at the grassroots level.

IWF's Agenda for Women 2006

Mon, 30 Jan 2006 00:00:00 EST

Agenda for Women 2006

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

We provide a voice for American women who believe in free markets and who seek equality of opportunity rather than equality of outcomes. We have made that voice heard in the courts, among decision-makers in Washington, and across America's airwaves.

Economic Independence

-Creating Social Security and pension systems that provide women with the maximum opportunity to save and invest
-Reducing government's burden on women by instituting tax cuts and tax reform
-Eliminating burdensome regulations that reduce job opportunities

Quality of Life in the United States

-Improving our education systems by putting power back in the hands of parents and education consumers
-Making healthcare work for women by ending tax policies that favor employer-provided health insurance and encouraging savings for healthcare expenses

International Freedom

-Promoting the full political, economic, and social participation of women in Iraq and Afghanistan, and helping these women build stable and democratic countries
-Encouraging a greater understanding of the importance of democracy, private property, rule of law, and human rights among women worldwide
-Advancing a greater understanding of the benefits of globalization and free trade

Justice and Justices

-Supporting nominations of qualified individuals to the federal judiciary
-Promoting civil justice reform to stop the over-regulation of American life through frivolous litigation

The Next Generation: On Campus

-Promoting personal responsibility and a balanced expression of philosophies on college campuses

In addition to the aforementioned topics in our annual agenda, we will continue to address the "issues of the day" on a moment's notice. The year 2006 promises to be an exciting year!

Agenda for Women 2005

Mon, 28 Feb 2005 00:00:00 EST

Economic Independence

Creating a Social Security system that provides women with the opportunity to save and invest
Reducing government's burden on women by instituting tax cuts and tax reform
Eliminating burdensome regulations that reduce job opportunities Quality of Life in the United States
Improving our education systems by putting power back in the hands of parents and education consumers
Making healthcare work for women by ending tax policies that favor employer-provided health insurance and encouraging savings for healthcare expenses

International Freedom

Promoting the full political, economic, and social participation of women in Iraq, and helping these women build a stable, democratic, free Iraq
Encouraging a greater understanding of the importance of democracy, private property, rule of law, and human rights among women worldwide
Advancing a greater understanding of the benefits of globalization and free trade

Justice and Justices

Supporting nominations of qualified individuals to the federal judiciary
Promoting civil justice reform to stop the over-regulation of American life through frivolous litigation

The Next Generation: On Campus

Promoting personal responsibility and a balanced expression of philosophies on college campuses

In addition to the aforementioned topics in our annual agenda, we will continue to address the "issues of the day" on a moment's notice. The year 2005 promises to be an exciting year!

Agenda for Women 2004

Mon, 26 Jan 2004 00:00:00 EST

The mission of the Independent Women's Forum, a nonprofit, nonpartisan educational organization, is to advance the American spirit of enterprise and self-reliance and to support the principles of political freedom, economic liberty, and personal responsibility.

We provide a voice for American women who believe in free markets and who seek equality of opportunity rather than equality of outcomes. We have made that voice heard in the courts, among decision-makers in Washington, and across America's airwaves.

Agenda for Women 2004

Economic Independence

Reducing government's burden on women by instituting tax cuts and tax reform.
Creating a Social Security system that provides women with the opportunity to save and invest.
Eliminating burdensome regulations that reduce job opportunities.

Quality of Life in the United States

Improving our education systems by putting power back in the hands of parents and education consumers.
Making healthcare work for women by ending tax policies that favor employer-provided health insurance and encouraging savings for healthcare expenses.
Encouraging the use of sound science in environmental policy.

Justice and Justices:

Supporting nominations of qualified individuals to the federal judiciary.
Promoting civil justice reform to stop the over-regulation of American life through frivolous litigation.

The Next Generation: On Campus

Promoting personal responsibility and a balanced expression of philosophies on college campuses.

In addition to the topics in our annual agenda, we will address the "issues of the day" on a moment's notice. The year 2004 promises to be an exciting year!