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Philly Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw Stepping Down Philly Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw Stepping Down
Philly Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw Stepping Down Philadelphia Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw is resigning her post, said Mayor Jim Kenney in a statement early Tuesday, Sept. 4.  Effective after Friday, Sept. 22, Outlaw will leave PPD to start in a leadership position with the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, officials said.  “Commissioner Outlaw has worked relentlessly for three and a half years during an unprecedented era in our city and a number of crisis situations, and she deserves praise for her commitment to bring long-overdue reform to the Department after years of racism and gender discrimination prior to …

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by Mac Bullock
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Bye, Bye, Birdie: State Authorities Accuse NJ Golf Club Of Male-Dominated Discrimination Bye, Bye, Birdie: State Authorities Accuse NJ Golf Club Of Male-Dominated Discrimination
Bye, Bye, Birdie: State Authorities Accuse NJ Golf Club Of Male-Dominated Discrimination A male-dominated South Jersey golf club kept women from becoming members, prevented them from owning homes on its property and handicapped those employed there, state authorities charged. As of last July, only three of the Pine Valley Golf Club’s 700 members were women, Acting Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin said in announcing a state Division of Civil Rights complaint against the historically male-dominated club in Camden County on Wednesday, April 27. It took a DCR investigation to get the club to relax restrictions on women to golf and access its facilities, Platkin said. Pine Valle…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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'Scolded For Being Female': PA Woman Accuses Church Of Gender Discrimination 'Scolded For Being Female': PA Woman Accuses Church Of Gender Discrimination
'Scolded For Being Female': PA Woman Accuses Church Of Gender Discrimination A Pennsylvania woman says she was disqualified from a church raffle and discriminated against due to her gender. Emily Smaniotto had entered a raffle winning a bow fishing trip during the annual Wild Game Dinner at the Bethel Baptiste Church in North Union (Fayette County) when the troubles began, she said. At first, the organizer announced the raffle was "for men only," but thinking he was joking, and with the the encouragement of seeing another woman enter, Smaniotto thought nothing of it. The other woman's name was drawn first, according to Smaniotto. "As soon as they called her name …

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by Jillian Pikora