Illinois Gender Bias Task Force report has bias of its own

From: Chicago Sun-Times | Date: October 5, 1991| Author: | Copyright information

A report on the Illinois divorce law by the Illinois Gender Bias Task Force's report is itself a model of bias and misrepresentation. Lawmakers who would vote on legislation based on the report's recommendations would be serving neither the concerns of their constituents nor the interest of society at large.

From its very conception a few years ago, the task force was destined to discriminate. Designed as part of a nationwide feminist effort to publicize perceived biases against women, the nominally "gender neutral" task force failed to include any representation from men's rights ...

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