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Afghanistan's Run-off Election and Women in America's Workplace
Women are half the workforce. Why don't they get the same pay as men for the same job? On our rebroadcast of today's To the Point, incompetence, corruption and Afghanistan's presidential election. Will a run-off produce what the White House calls a "credible partner" deserving of more US troops to fight the Taliban and maintain stability?
By Warren Olney • • 1h 0m ListenWith women now half of the workforce, the battle of the sexes has been replaced by negotiations. That's according to a new report co-authored by California First Lady Maria Shriver. But, are government, business and men catching up to workplace reality? On our rebroadcast of today's To the Point, incompetence and corruption forced a run-off in Afghanistan's presidential election. Will it produce what the White House calls a "credible partner" deserving of more US troops to fight the Taliban and maintain stability?
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2 storiesAfghanistan's Run-off Election
When Afghanistan's presidential election was under way, Peter Galbraith complained that the UN mission refused to release evidence of fraud. That cost him his job as special representative of the Secretary General. But the evidence turned out to be so strong that President Hamid Karzai agreed to a runoff .
Read the story29 minThe Changing Lives of Women (and Everybody Else)
California's First Lady, Maria Shriver, has put her name on a year's worth of research titled A Woman's Nation Changes Everything . Half of American workers are now women, and that means change. We look at the good news and the bad news for men, women and their children.
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