THE REVOLUTION NEVER SLEEPS:

One Less Eye on Gender Inequality (Marcia D. Greenberger, October 16, 2006, TomPaine.com

For the last five years, the Bush administration has repeatedly undermined laws and policies that support workplace equality for women. The latest blow in this continual assault came when the Department of Labor announced that it would eliminate a critical anti-discrimination tool, the Equal Opportunity Survey, which is needed to ensure that companies receiving federal dollars provide equal employment opportunities to their workers.

The elimination of the survey is a big win for federal contractors that receive millions of dollars in taxpayer-funded government contracts every year but want to evade scrutiny of their pay practices. The Department of Labor's ideological decision to gut the survey is the latest in a list of administration actions that undermine the civil rights protections and family-friendly policies that are particularly important to women in the workforce.