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6D Daily News – Wednesday, October 24, 2012 From left to right (standing): Megan Frost, Therapist; Gisela Sandoval, Bilingual Case Manager / Therapist; Regina Sherrill, Executive Assistant; Stephanie Petersen, DV Advocate; Kaitlyn Green, MSW Intern; Susana Reyes, Legal Advocate; Maggie Michael, Cal Works / Legal Advocate Supervisor; Michelle Banuelos, Board Member. Seated: Jeanne Spurr, Executive Director; Joy Wright, Board Member; Linda Dickerson, Associate Director. Not pictured: Lisa Jellison, Clinical Supervisor; Nicole Arsenault, MSW Intern; Denise Rochlitz, Shelter Manager; Cinde Earnest, DV Advocate; Xechitl Cepeda, Volunteer. Violence Program and Women's Shelter serving Tehama County since 1994. ATV offers confidential, no cost services for individuals and families suffering from domestic abuse. The drop-in center is open weekdays from 9 AM to 4 PM. Services include crisis counseling, assistance in filing restraining orders, educational and support groups and counseling to help heal from the trauma and long- term effects of domestic abuse. All services are available in Spanish. ATV's Crisis Hotline is available 24/7 to provide information, resources and referrals, crisis counseling and to assist with emergency shelter for those in danger or fleeing an abusive relationship. The Crisis Hotline is staffed by trained domestic violence counselors, many of whom are community volunteers. Contact us if you would like to volunteer on the hotline, at the drop in center or at shelter. We are currently seeking someone to facilitate women and children's art groups. ATV employs thirteen full time employees, including eleven Women In Business. Learn more at alternatives2violence.org, email us at info@atvrb.org or call 528-0226. Alternatives to Violence (ATV) is the Domestic Wage-gap answers fall through cracks women may have gotten a fabulous idea for a Halloween costume from Tuesday night's presidential debate — wrap themselves in binders! — but they didn't get an answer to the one question exclusively about them. When 24-year-old Katherine Fenton LOS ANGELES (MCT) — American noticeably went personal, as if the word "females" triggered some deeply embedded Skinnerian word association response — "Women like personal sto- ries," you could almost hear their han- dlers whisper. "Tell them a personal story." asked, "In what new ways do you intend to rectify the inequalities in the work- place, specifically regarding females making only 72 percent of what their male counterparts earn?" both men danced around the issue with the Republican and Democratic versions of the gender-gap two-step. Mitt Romney's (now disputed) claim that when he, as governor of Massa- chusetts, demanded to see more female applicants resulted in him being brought "binders full of women" may have become the official punch line of the second debate, but neither man really answered the question. Even worse, their responses were surprisingly condescending. They each immediately and very formidable Michelle as his wife, clearly thought this was an easy out. He loos- ened up, took his time. He was, as he reminded everyone for the 7 millionth time, the son of a single mother who put herself through school, raised by a grandmother who, though discriminated against in the workplace, never com- plained "because that generation didn't complain." As if this were a good thing, not com- Obama, with two daughters and the plaining.Which, and we must beckon for the fact-checker here, I'm fairly certain some of them did, including Betty Friedan, who was a contemporary of Obama's grandmother, as was the late great Bella Abzug, only they called it "protest." Obama then pointed out that he had Dr. Ndagano Pediatrics Dr. Annette Ndagano is a Board Certified Pediatrician who joined Lassen Medical Group in 2008. Dr. Ndagano attended Makerere University School of Medicine in Uganda. She holds advanced certificates in biology, chemistry and physics, completing her residency at Mercy Hospital in Pittsburgh, PA in 1997. She has a passion for touching the lives of the many children who come to see her. Dr. Ndagano's personal interests are Dance, Music, Cooking, Running and Photography. Dr. Ndagano was recently awarded the 2012 Excellent Customer Service Award by the 2012 Secret Shopping Team. This award honored Dr. Ndagano for her ability to provide Excellent Customer Service while providing health care to many children in Tehama county. Lassen Medical Group is proud to have Dr. Ndagano as one of the many talented physicians on their team. Red Bluff location: 2450 Sister Mary Columba Drive (530) 527-0414 Et voila, pay equity all around! Instead of discussing how, say, that act might work for real women, he decided to turn a question about equal pay into an opportunity for him to point out his sup- port for legal abortion and insurance coverage of contraceptives. Because clearly any mention of supported the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, after Ledbetter lost her pay equity case in front of the Supreme Court. "So we fixed that," the president said. women must prompt a discussion of abortion and contraception, and legal abortion and covered contraception should, somehow, make up for women not getting paid enough. (Memo to American management: Next time a man asks for a raise, hand him a box of condoms.) He summed up with his go- to argument of the night: He would ensure that everyone gets an educa- tion. Because we all know that women with college degrees are never discrim- inated against in the workplace. Then it was Romney's turn. Not only did he pat himself on the back for going the extra mile to seek out qualified women for jobs in his administration, women who were apparently hiding in the cranberry bogs or under witness protection, he also allowed his female chief of staff to go home at 5 o'clock every day so she could make dinner for her young children. Because if you want to hire women, you have to be flexible enough to let them bring home the bacon and then fry it up in a pan. www.lassenmedical.com governor of Massachusetts is a demanding job, but "allowing" someone to go home at 5 o'clock after she has, presumably, worked a full day is not exactly flex time. And does Romney have any sort of program in mind to encourage other businesses to be fam- ily flexible? Well, no. But as he said approximately 780 times on Tuesday night, he knows what a good economy looks like and a good economy "gives women opportunities that they would otherwise not be able to afford." Which sounds much more like child care than flex time, and child care that Mama will be paying for her own self. (Romney also did not directly answer a question about which tax loopholes he would close, even though it was posed as an opportunity for him to assure vot- ers that things like the child care and No doubt being chief of staff to the college tuition deductions would be safe.) Also, not all women have young din- ner-demanding children, and those who have them now will not have them for the rest of their lives. So, as with cov- ered contraception and legal abortion, flex time does not, in any way, make up for the kind of across-the-board unequal wages we are still, unbelievably, seeing in 2012. In fact, it is precisely these sorts of arguments — that women require spe- cial handling, that they will get married and quit; that they will get pregnant and take maternity leave or that their roles as mothers and wives make them less productive — are some of the reasons that the wage gap exists. More impor- tant, neither Obama nor Romney would think of answering a question about stagnating wages among men by telling a personal story about a guy they let go home at 5 because he has young chil- dren or the benefits of insurance cover- ing prostate exams. And that is pretty much the definition of sexism.