UN Report shows Women's Rights in the US are an embarrassment.

http://www.vox.com/2015/12/18/10587126/un-womens-rights-embarrassment

There's a lot of political debate in the US right now over so-called "women's issues" like paid family leave, equal pay, and access to health care. Some politicians and stakeholders resist changing the status quo in these areas because they say it might cost too much, be bad for business, or have unintended consequences. Essentially, they view addressing these issues as optional — nice to have, sure, but only if we can figure out a way to implement them without causing any kind of disruption.

But a new United Nations working group report says that improving women's equality in the United States is not optional. In fact, the status quo in the US falls short of international human rights standards for women.

Three human rights experts from a UN working group on discrimination against women toured the United States for 10 days and visited Alabama, Oregon, and Texas. What they found appalled them, and the resulting report is one of the best brief summaries you could read on all the different ways US policy is harmful to women — particularly women of color and low-income women.