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JUSTINE SIEGAL How We’re Doing Cuts Put Women and Children Last As Ms.’ Martha Burk reports (p.12), House Republicans, in their proposed fiscal-year 2011 budget cuts, want to dramatically cut national and international family-planning funding. The Guttmacher Institute has calculated the potential impact: Nationally, one-quarter of poor women and couples would lose contraceptive care, resulting in … …973,000 unintended pregnancies, ending in… …406,000 more abortions and… …433,000 more unplanned births, resulting in… …$3.4 BILLION more tax dollars spent on medical care. Internationally, 12 million women and couples would lose contraceptive access, resulting in… …3.8 MILLION more unintended pregnancies, ending in …1.6 MILLION more abortions, of which… …1.2 MILLION would be unsafe, meaning that… …10,000 women would die and… …46,000 children would lose their mothers. Your Industry’s Wage Gap In this chart from the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ editors’ blog, you can see how the wage gap in your industry (horizontal axis) correlates with women’s average pay (vertical axis) and how many women are employed (size of bubble). One example: Construction employs few women, who make about $700 a week, but they make about as much as men do. WOMEN’S WAGES & EMPLOYMENT BY INDUSTRY, 2009 $900 $850 $800 $750 $700 $650 $600 $550 $500 $450 $400 70 Mining, quarrying, & oil & gas extraction Information Financial activities Professional & business services Public administration Education & health services Transportation & utilites Manufacturing Construction JUSTICE NAZMUN ARA SULTANA became the first woman to Size of bubble represents employment Wholesale & retail trade Other Services Leisure & hospitality 75 80 Agriculture & related industries 85 90 WOMEN’S EARNINGS AS PERCENT OF MEN’S (WAGE GAP) www.msmagazine.com sit on Bangladesh’s High Court. Bangladesh’s prime min- ister and its opposition party leader are women, too. Haitian feminist PAULET TE POUJOL ORIOL died at the age of 84. One of the country’s leading writers, she was also active in the Haitian women’s movement: director of the Women’s League of Social Action and a founder of the Alliance of Haitian Women. SPRING 2011 | 11 Milestones Glass-ceiling-shattering baseball player and coach JUSTINE SIEGAL for the Cleveland Indians; she’s the first woman to do so for a major league team. “She made me look bad,” said another Indians practice pitcher, manager Manny Acta. GERALDINE FERRARO, who broke a glass ceiling by running as the Democratic candidate for vice president in 1984, died at 75. A champion for women’s rights in her three terms in the U.S. House, she was a role model who showed that no political office was too high for a woman. MARTHA MESQUITA DA ROCHA has been appointed the first woman police chief of Rio de Janeiro, soon after Dilma Rousseff became Brazil’s first woman president. Says Rocha, “I think that maybe five years ago nobody would have ex- pected a female president [or] a female police chief. Soon this will stop being a shock; it will no longer be different.” THE UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA added sexual orientation to its nondiscrimination policy, becoming the last public uni- versity system to do so. Students, faculty and staff have been lobbying for the change for years. Saudi Arabian novelist RAJA ALEM became the first woman to win the International Prize for Arabic Fiction, sharing the prize with Moroccan author Mohammed Achaari. WIRED magazine featured its first cover with a woman engineer, L IMOR “ LADYADA” FRIED. Even though some famous women, such as Sarah Silverman and Sherry Turkle, have been featured, many cover women are generic models, as in the infamous November 2010 cover of a close-up photo of naked breasts. made headlines again by pitching batting practice SIEGAL:MARK DUNCAN/AP PHOTO MEDIAN WEEKLY EARNINGS