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		<title>Do You Have a Divorce House?</title>
		<link>http://helloladies.com/2012/02/do-you-have-a-divorce-house/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:22:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[divorce]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[At a recent party with some families from my childrens’ elementary school,  I asked a woman where she lived.  She described the house and I said, &#8220;Oh I love that house! It&#8217;s one of my divorce houses.&#8221; &#8220;Divorce houses?&#8221; &#8220;Yes, you know, the houses you imagine moving into and mentally decorate when you fantasize about leaving your husband and living alone?&#8221; Awkward silence. Oops. Am I the only one? I love my husband. I really do. And I actually like him too. But there are those times &#8211; like when he places his fantasy league championship trophy, a bobblehead, on the fireplace mantle and every time the skull mug from his frat house days reappears because, &#8220;It&#8217;s great for holding change,&#8221; or he starts another so-called home improvement project, that I imagine life as a single dweller. Source: mochatini.org via Hello_Ladies on Pinterest &#62; And so sometimes, while I’m walking, running or driving around town, I spot a house that meets my criteria: - close to my current home so my husband and I can share custody and I can drop by frequently to visit and maybe stay for dinner (because while I wouldn’t miss his bobblehead I would miss [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On My Honor, I Will Try: Girls Scouts Help Build Future Leaders</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 18:08:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hello Ladies</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Feminist Forte]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[family friendly work policies]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[girls scouts and STEM]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[girls scouts build leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[glass ceiling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[how to build leadership capacity in girls]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Girl Scouts of the USA recently released new research &#8220;ToGetHerThere: Girls’ Insights on Leadership,” revealing young girls see a glass ceiling in today’s society. The research, completed in partnership with GFK Roper, is part of a broader campaign and fundraising effort seeking to create equal representation of women in leadership positions in all sectors and levels of society. The Girl Scouts surveyed 1,000 girls aged 8-17 and found close to three in five girls think that while a woman can rise up in a company, she will rarely be placed in a senior leadership role.  And 8 in 10 girls think the workplace could do a better job of meeting the needs of their female workers. Of course we already know this to be the case. But hopefully, hearing young girls make these same observations will inspire all of us to do more to change the reality. We can tell our daughters all we want that they can grow up and become anything. But they are smarter than that. If they don’t see evidence to support that assertion, why should they believe us? As White House Project founder Marie Wilson often says, “You can’t be what you can’t see.” That [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Simple Recap of the Past Week</title>
		<link>http://helloladies.com/2012/02/the-week-in-review/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 12:36:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Susan G. Komen Issues Statement and Revises Funding Policy</title>
		<link>http://helloladies.com/2012/02/susan-g-komen-issues-statement-and-revises-funding-policy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:11:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hello Ladies</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Susan G. Komen Board of Directors and Founder/CEO Nancy Brinker issued a statement today revising the controversial funding policy that caused an uproar earlier this week: We want to apologize to the American public for recent decisions that cast doubt upon our commitment to our mission of saving women’s lives.  The events of this week have been deeply unsettling for our supporters, partners and friends and all of us at Susan G. Komen.  We have been distressed at the presumption that the changes made to our funding criteria were done for political reasons or to specifically penalize Planned Parenthood.  They were not. Our original desire was to fulfill our fiduciary duty to our donors by not funding grant applications made by organizations under investigation.  We will amend the criteria to make clear that disqualifying investigations must be criminal and conclusive in nature and not political. That is what is right and fair. Our only goal for our granting process is to support women and families in the fight against breast cancer.  Amending our criteria will ensure that politics has no place in our grant process.  We will continue to fund existing grants, including those of Planned Parenthood, and preserve their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Another Heroine of the Week: Congresswoman Jackie Speier</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 03:42:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Congresswoman Jackie Speier speaks about abortion]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Susan G. Komen pulls funds for Planned Parenthood]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Remember Congresswoman Jackie Speier? Last February, during the House debate over Title X funding to family planning service providers including Planned Parenthood, she bravely shared a very personal story about abortion. Today Speier again addressed Congress about Planned Parenthood &#8212; this time to speak out against Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure&#8217;s decision to pull funds from Planned Parenthood. The breast cancer organization, which claims to put the &#8220;highest priority on the women they serve,&#8221; pulled its funding for Planned Parenthood, an organization that provides women with breast health education, screenings, and referrals for mammograms. Here is Congresswoman Speier&#8217;s statement about Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure. And here is the speech she made last February. A female leader who speaks powerfully and from the heart &#8211; this is why we need more women in Washington. Click here to support Planned Parenthood.]]></description>
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		<title>Susan G. Komen Pulls Funding for Planned Parenthood</title>
		<link>http://helloladies.com/2012/02/susan-g-komen-pulls-funding-for-planned-parenthood-screenings/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:42:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Susan G. Komen for the Cure, the world&#8217;s largest breast cancer organization, is pulling the funding for breast cancer screenings at Planned Parenthood centers. In a statement on its website, Planned Parenthood attributed the decision to, “pressure from anti-women&#8217;s health political organizations,” and said, “At immediate risk are low-income women, many located in rural and under served communities, served by 19 Planned Parenthood programs funded by the Komen Foundation. This funding has enabled designated Planned Parenthood health centers to provide women with breast health education, screenings, and referrals for mammograms — lifesaving care for women where Planned Parenthood is their only source of health care.” According to the New York Times, a Komen spokeswoman told the Associated Press, &#8220; the main factor in the decision was a new rule adopted by Komen that prohibits grants to organizations being investigated by local, state or federal authorities&#8230;. Planned Parenthood was therefore disqualified from financing because of an inquiry being conducted by Representative Cliff Stearns, Republican of Florida, who is looking at how Planned Parenthood spends and reports its money.&#8221; Just last week, the Susan G. Komen organization issued a press release touting the benefits of screening women of all economic levels. The release [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Heroine of the Week: Janet Howell</title>
		<link>http://helloladies.com/2012/01/heroine-of-the-week-janet-howell/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 04:05:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Brava to Virginia State Senator Janet Howell who made a statement this week when she proposed an amendment to Senate Bill 484, which would require a pregnant woman to undergo an ultrasound and have the option to view her fetus before having an abortion.  Howell&#8217;s amendment would have required men to undergo a rectal exam and a cardiac stress test before getting a prescription for erectile dsyfunction drugs. Proponents of the mandatory ultrasound before abortion argue its part of informed consent – making sure a woman seeking an abortion knows her legal rights and alternatives, and to be sure the confused little lady really understands what she is undertaking. Perhaps Howell just wanted to make sure that men, distressed by their sexual dysfunction, were clear about the risks of Viagra and the choices they had – like abstaining. Or maybe, she just wanted to make the point that no one should control another person’s body or create legislation requiring unnecessary and invasive procedures on another human being. Not surprising, Howell&#8217;s amendment failed and the bill passed the Senate Education and Health committee. However according to the Richard Times-Dispatch, a new amendment, &#8220;being formulated by Democrats would require a physician to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>They Want Our Shoes Too?</title>
		<link>http://helloladies.com/2012/01/they-want-our-shoes-too/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 17:16:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Source: Uploaded by user via Hello_Ladies on Pinterest &#160; Some pay us less than our fair share. Some want to control our bodies and make us pay more for health insurance. Others want us to run only after dawn and before dusk and never with headphones and never alone. Being a woman requires nerves of steel. And so many of us reward ourselves for perservering, heck, powering through, by focusing on what&#8217;s fun about being a woman. Like being a mother. And having girlfriends. And shoes. We love our shoes. But now new data threatens to ruin that pleasure. A study from The Journal of Applied Physiology is garnering lots of alarmist headlines: High heels, high danger Study says high heels cause permanent leg damage High heels ruin the way you walk: study Before you toss your Manolos, know this: the researchers studied only nine &#8220;habitual high heel wearers.&#8221; That&#8217;s not a very extensive research field. If you&#8217;ve ever donned a heel higher than three inches, you don&#8217;t need a study to know high heels aren&#8217;t  natural. But sometimes the emotional benefits of wearing a Louboutin outweigh the risks. Just be careful of your calves.  And for more footwear choices, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Words for the Weekend</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 12:27:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Source: cassandragarvey.tumblr.com via Hello_Ladies on Pinterest]]></description>
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		<title>Top Smartphone Apps for Busy Women</title>
		<link>http://helloladies.com/2012/01/top-smartphone-apps-for-busy-women/</link>
		<comments>http://helloladies.com/2012/01/top-smartphone-apps-for-busy-women/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 20:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hello Ladies</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Making Work Work]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[best apps for working moms]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Time is precious, so we need our smartphones to work hard and smart. Here is a list of app for smart, busy women. What apps do you recommend? Best Apps for Working Mothers]]></description>
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