Tag: equal

  • Conservative activist Phyllis Schlafly dead at 92

    By Bill Trott WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Phyllis Schlafly, who became a “founding mother” of the modern U.S. conservative movement by battling feminists in the 1970s and working tirelessly to defeat the Equal Rights Amendment, died on Monday at the age of 92, her Eagle Forum group said. Schlafly, who lived in the St. Louis suburb…

  • World will miss education-for-all target by 50 years: U.N.

    By Emma Batha LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – The world is set to miss by more than half a century a deadline for ensuring all children receive secondary education, the United Nations said on Tuesday, adding that 40 percent of pupils are being taught in a language that is not their mother tongue. World leaders…