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The state [SC] and women’s status
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| Contributor | Joshua L. |
| Last Edited | Joshua L. Jan 01, 2005 05:43pm |
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| Category | News |
| Media | Newspaper - The State |
| News Date | Saturday, January 1, 2005 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | In an op-ed piece (“Working for S.C. women, and for the good of the state,” Dec. 18), Columbia College President Caroline Whitson wrote a most eloquent brief on the status of women in South Carolina, her facts crying out for state involvement and support.
She cited our deplorable ranking (second to last) among the states in women’s political representation, economic autonomy, domestic violence and health standards, and concluded that such conditions affecting 52 percent of our population are a huge impediment to our state’s growth. Another op-ed by another Columbia College official (Sept. 13) was titled, “For the state to prosper, women’s status must improve.”
So the deplorable ranking is not just a women’s problem; it’s the state’s problem. But instead of calling for state action, this piece informed us that Columbia College had taken over the responsibility of raising funds for the S.C. Commission on Women. Why? Because the commission had been rejected by Gov. Mark Sanford.
Dr. Whitson put it another way. She praised the governor for his new approach: a memorandum of agreement between Columbia College and the S.C. Commission on Women to develop a private/public partnership to address the issues facing women. She wrote of her exciting plans to collect data and implement programs to improve the status of women, including holding conferences and workshops, setting up a Web site, reviewing existing laws and more. |
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