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Utah Lt. Gov. Deidre Henderson recently issued a challenge for more women to get involved in their communities and in politics. Utah Governor Spencer Cox and Lt. Gov. Henderson have issued a 500 Day Roadmap, which includes a section on Equality and Opportunity. Today, we’ll talk about the Roadmap and issues such as the gender wage gap, women in public office, and opportunities for women in leadership in the private and public sectors.
Our guests will include Lt. Gov. Henderson and Susan Madsen, Inaugural Karen Haight Huntsman Endowed Professor of Leadership in the Huntsman School of Business at Utah State University and Founder and Director of the Utah Women & Leadership Project.
LOGAN Who walks around with quarters in their pockets anymore? In the world of online banking, pretty much no one, least of all college students. But for a menstruating individual caught in public without supplies, you d better hope you have quarters.
That s what students in Utah State University s Women in Business Association quickly realized after a conversation about the inconvenience of obtaining menstruation products in public spaces turned into political action. Now, the university is working on removing the pay barrier for tampons and pads in bathrooms and instead will provide them free of charge. As a female student, the last thing you want to have to worry about is an unexpected emergency and just small acts like this show that we care about our students, said Lianne Wappett, faculty co-advisor for the group. We want them to focus on their academics, not on emergencies, and it s exciting to see small steps towards what I would call equitable access to products in the
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by WILL RINEHART
December 08, 2020 | 11:33 AM ET
Occam’s Razor needs to be applied more broadly in the debate over free speech online.
If you think your political position is being suppressed by Facebook or Google or Twitter, it probably isn’t. More likely, your post was taken down because you violated a rule and then interpreted the takedown as a nefarious attempt at censorship.
While there are some notable exceptions, large platforms have a much stronger incentive to keep the content flowing uninterrupted. More content leads to more interaction, which, in turn, means more advertiser revenue.
The heightened risk of regulation is also cajoling platforms to limit their content moderation. On three separate occasions this year, Congress hauled tech leaders into hearings to account for content removal on their platforms. A range of legislative reform packages were proposed by both sides of the aisle that would fundamentally alter Section 230. Meanwhile, Federal Trade Commissi