The equal time rule would apply nationally if Sharpton were on the ballot in more than 10 states, according to Bobby Baker, an FCC attorney.

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She said that many college professors across the country don't realize that Title IX of the 1972 federal education law, the same rule that requires equal opportunities for women in college sports, also applies to women who may miss classes or tests because of a pregnancy.

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And, by the way, we want our sons in that, but we also want our daughters. (Applause.) I don't know if you were listening last night, but, see, we don't have to order up some binders -- (laughter) -- to find qualified, talented, driven young women to learn and teach and thrive and start businesses. (Applause.) And when these young women graduate, we should make a very simple concept the rule: Equal pay for equal work.

WHITEHOUSE: Remarks by the President at Ohio University, Athens, OH

All intellectual property violates the efficiency rule that price should equal marginal cost of reproduction, which for knowledge is nearly zero.

ECONOMIST: Non-central Europe

In the early years of Baath rule, women were declared equal under the law and were required to attend literacy classes (though some were prevented from doing so by conservative family members).

ECONOMIST: Women and the Arab awakening

This rule is designed to ensure that individual investors have equal access to information as large institutional investors, by prohibiting selective disclosure of material information.

FORBES: Connect

Men used to rule the roost and making the adjustment to a slightly more equal world has hit some of them hard.

ECONOMIST: American men