Obama's Initiative To Stop Sexual Assault Offenses In College Helps, But It Isn't The Complete Solution.

President Obama is trying to involve college campuses into combating the predominant issue of rapes or sexual assaults against women on college campuses. An agenda he backed since the beginning of his administration.

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Although Obama's effort is a welcomed one by us ladies and decent men, in our view, it's not the total solution for this abusive stance our country and other nations have. You see, sexual assault is not a law issue, it's a society issue. No law by Obama will fly, unless society breaks the habit of how men perceive women in general, throughout their lives.

Women will be treated with decency and not raped, when children see their father respect and love their mother. When they see that, unlike some football players shown on TV lately, they love and help their wife throughout their marriage. When there is no domestic violence! Children exposed to couples who truly love and respect each other, usually pattern their own relationships to what their parents were like. Hate to say this, but the saying "monkey see, monkey do", comes to mind! Only when a couple of future generations, practice this mutual respect for each other, will our society really change.

So you ladies that aren't married yet, keep in mind that before you accept to marry someone, make sure they love and RESPECT you. Never become a model of domestic violence or rape for your children, whether they are male or female!

Revised Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), Passed

Finally this important act was passed and signed yesterday by President Obama. It went through rough waters, late last year, when Congress would not agree with certain issues.

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Domestic and Sexual Violence

This Act was supposed to have been passed last year by Congress. The new, expanded VAWA law, will cover women involved in domestic violence, as it has in the past. But it will also cover domestic violence to gay, lesbian and transgender victims, as well. Native Americans and undocumented immigrants will also be added.

The initial VAWA was the work of Joe Biden, back in 1994 and it also helps fund rape crisis centers around the country. The much needed expansion of the Act, will also cover related crimes, such as dating violence and stalking crimes.

The signing ceremony of the new act yesterday, included President Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, Congress members, organizations for women, Native American leaders, law enforcement groups and of course, some survivors of domestic violence.

Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act - SIGNED!

President Obama just signed this morning the bill that protects everyone from pay discrimination. A BIG step for WOMEN and minorities! History has been made today.

The following information is from the White House Blog:

The Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act will restore the law to where it was before the Supreme Court's decision in Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. Justice Ginsberg's dissent summarizes the facts of Ledbetter's complaint:

Lilly Ledbetter was a supervisor at Goodyear Tire and Rubber’s plant in Gadsden, Alabama, from 1979 until her retirement in 1998. For most of those years, she worked as an area manager, a position largely occupied by men. Initially, Ledbetter’s salary was in line with the salaries of men performing substantially similar work. Over time, however, her pay slipped in comparison to the pay of male area managers with equal or less seniority. By the end of 1997, Ledbetter was the only woman working as an area manager and the pay discrepancy between Ledbetter and her 15 male counterparts was stark: Ledbetter was paid $3,727 per month; the lowest paid male area manager received $4,286 per month, the highest paid, $5,236.

The Court ruled that employees subject to pay discrimination like Lilly Ledbetter must file a claim within 180 days of the employer's original decision to pay them less -- even if the employee continued to receive reduced paychecks and even if the employee did not discover the discriminatory reduction in pay until much later (check out Justice Alito's arguments in the Court's opinion). Restoring these rules means that complaints can be filed 180 days after any discriminatory paycheck.