via Historiann: several Correntians have already written about the disproportionate impact the current economic apocalypse is having on women's jobs as compared to men's and how the economic stimulus proposals do little to address that. At the Center for Research for Women and Social Justice, a group of feminist historians who study the New Deal has issued an open letter to Obama asking that a New "New Deal" address those inequities:

FEMINIST HISTORIANS FOR A NEW NEW DEAL

Open Letter to President-elect Obama

December 18, 2008

Dear President-elect Obama,

(Following up on this post and this one in the series)

The second of my chosen areas of emphasis is getting Single Payer Health Care more into the public awareness and mainstream thinking, and, of course, ultimately to get HR 676 or something very like it passed into law in this country.

DCBlogger and hipparchia have done an excellent job keeping us up-to-date on the issue, so I won't even attempt to duplicate their efforts here: just follow the relevant tags.

I will report on the Healthcare-Now! Rally for HR 676 which took place last Thursday in Times Square. and some of my thoughts coming out of that rally. And, of course, photos! (Not very many this time because my batteries ran out.)

Rev. Jesse Jackson:

"Dr. King fervently supported Kennedy over Nixon. We still had to march for a public accommodations bill. He supported President Johnson over Goldwater. We still had to march for the right to vote. Now when Mr. Barack Obama gets to Washington, there'll be competition for his attention. And so the Civil Rights Movement must make its presence felt. And the labor movement. And the women's movement."

Amen.

As I wrote in response to Sarah's question "Where do we go from here?", (and have mentioned before), I am concentrating my political energy in three areas: single-payer health care, economic justice, and fighting misogyny and sexism.

I'll start the discussion with the latter.

Splashy9 said it well: one of the lessons we learned in this electoral season is that

Misogyny is alive and works to kill the dreams of females

So the males that understand that it is a problem that needs to be fixed really need to work harder to educate other males about it.