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Six Ways to Honor Women’s Equality Day
Today is Women’s Equality Day marking the ninetieth anniversary of the Nineteenth Amendment, which gave women the right to vote. It’s not an easy day to honor. Do we celebrate the tremendous work of the suffragettes who fought long and hard for women? Or do we note the irony of an equality day when... »
Kagan Approved; Brings Critical Mass to Supreme Court
The Senate voted today to send Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court. Kagan is only the fourth female justice, out of 111 total, in the history of the Supreme Court and is now one of three women currently on the bench joining Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotamayor. With Kagan’s appointment, women have... »
Six Things We Need to Do to Send a Woman to the White House
Last week I posted a question at SkinnyScoop: Do you think a woman will be elected president in your lifetime? Most of the respondents (81 percent) said yes. No one answered definitely not. I sure hope the respondents are right, but getting there won’t be easy. One respondent at SkinnyScoop wrote, “We are ready... »
Missing: Women in Politics
Check out the latest data from the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) on the number of women in government worldwide. Just 18.9 percent of all elected leaders in both upper and lower parliamentary branches combined (House and Senate for example) are women. That’s correct, less than twenty percent of the world leaders (where data is available)... »
Fear of Public Speaking
Public Speaking. Hate it! Even though I took Voice and Articulation, Debate, Oral Interpretation and Public Speaking 101 in college; even though I won, not one but, four awards in my Dale Carnegie class; even though I’ve presented at sales meetings and new business pitches and industry conferences; I still start to shake when... »
Who is Elena Kagan?
Elena Kagan is the current Solicitor General. President Obama is expected to announce this morning that she is his pick to replace Justice John Paul Stevens who is retiring from the Supreme Court. Here’s what we know about Elena Kagan: - As Solicitor General she conducts all litigation on behalf of the United States... »
Women Well Represented Among Pulitzer Winners
The Pulitzer Prizes were announced earlier this week and women won quite a few awards. In the Journalism Prizes, Barbara Laker and Wendy Ruderman of the Philadelphia Daily News won in the Investigative Reporting category for their coverage of a police narcotics squad, and Sheri Fink of ProPublica won for a story on doctors... »
Newsweek takes on sexism
Brava to the three Newsweek writers who take on gender discrimination at their own magazine. In the March 29 issue Jessica Bennett, Jesse Ellison and Sarah Ball ask just how far women at Newsweek have come since 46 women filed a sexual discrimination suit against the magazine in 1970. They go on to describe... »
Gender Parity at the Olympics? Not Yet
My five year old had the stomach bug this weekend which meant she spent most of the last two days lying on the couch, snuggling her Daddy and watching the Winter Olympics on TV. How sweet. Not really. Why? Because the Olympics are just one more piece of evidence for my little girl that women... »
The Women Are Coming, The Women Are Coming
I read in the Boston Globe yesterday 18 New Hampshire legislators are trying to change the language in the state’s constitution so it is gender neutral. Specifically, the group wants to strike the word men and references to the word and replace them with gender-neutral words. Currently, the constitution reads, “All men are born... »
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