Men Behaving Badly Aren’t Funny Anymore
8/10/09
Salon: Male journalists are starting to realize they need to develop a sense of the distinction between legitimate criticism of a woman’s work, and sexually charged schoolyard tantrums. Many are beginning to realize they must forgo the fun of calling the secretary of state, arguably the most powerful woman in the world, a “Mad Bitch” if they want positions of influence in the world of ideas.

Recognizing Long Odds, Maloney Drops Her Senate Bid
8/8/09
NY Times: After several days in which she seemed prepared to formally announce the start of her campaign, Carolyn Maloney on Friday instead said she was abandoning the effort as she confronted a reality that often gives pause to even the most ambitious politician: the prospect of losing a secure job for a long-shot gamble.

Nepal’s Single Women Protest Government ‘Incentive’ To Marry
8/10/09
AP via Breitbart: Nepal’s single women, who were offered a cash incentive of 50,000 rupees ($650) each last month by the government to get married, staged a protest in Kathmandu on Monday terming the offer an insult.

What’s A Big City Without A Newspaper?
8/9/09
NY Times: Philadelphia is a particularly good place to observe what appears to be big-city journalism’s last stand, when many of America’s metropolitan newspapers must quickly figure out how to become profitable again or face likely extinction.

Seattle Paper Is Resurgent As A Solo Act
8/10/09
NY Times: When The Seattle Times became this city’s only surviving daily newspaper in March, even The Times itself could not muster much optimism about its chances… But less than five months later, a nearly forgotten word has crept back into Times executives’ vocabulary: profit.

Single-Payer & Interlocking Directorates
August 2009
FAIR: How often are employees allowed to work on projects that might put some of the people they work for out of business? That’s the conflict of interest that journalists reporting on the healthcare reform debate are often put in by the boards of media corporations they work for, which frequently include representatives of the insurance industry.

Anne Wexler, An Influential Political Operative And Lobbyist, Is Dead At 79
8/9/09
NY Times: Anne Wexler, who did just about everything in politics except run for office — from licking envelopes to running Democratic campaigns to serving as a top aide in the Carter White House before becoming an influential Washington lobbyist — died on Friday. She was 79.

Sotomayor Fans Claim The Phrase ‘Wise Latina’
8/9/09
NY Times: THE phrase by itself was a compliment. Then it became a term of derision for some political commentators, bloggers and senators. And now, “Wise Latina” is a catchphrase emblazoned on T-shirts, mugs and baby bibs, and a moniker for any number of new Facebook groups.

Women At Risk
8/8/09
NY Times: “I actually look good. I dress good, am clean-shaven, bathe, touch of cologne — yet 30 million women rejected me,” wrote George Sodini in a blog that he kept while preparing for this week’s shooting in a Pennsylvania gym in which he killed three women, wounded nine others and then killed himself.

Militants Contact Roeder In Jail
8/10/09
Kansas City Star: The list of those visiting and communicating with the man accused of killing Wichita abortion provider George Tiller reads like a who’s who of anti-abortion militants.

Freeing Woman Held In Iran Is ‘Top Priority’: France
8/10/09
AFP via Google: President Nicolas Sarkozy has set as a “top priority” the release of a young French lecturer on trial in Iran on charges related to post-election protests, his office said Monday.

Mexican Women Activists Put Reforms Under The Gun
8/10/09
Women’s eNews: Mexico has taken federal measures to improve women’s safety. But anti-violence activists say a new commission is based on a flawed model and a federal prosecutor has limited power. The second of two stories on femicide in Mexico.

World Congress Of Families Gathers In “Bastion Of Anti-Family Policies”
8/10/09
RH Reality Check: The fifth World Congress of Families (WCF), a gathering organized and co-sponsored by an array of right-wing organizations such as the Howard Center for Family, Religion and Society, Concerned Women for America, Human Life International, Red Familia and Family Research Council, among others, starts today in Amsterdam, Netherlands under the title “Family: More Than the Sum of it’s Parts.”

Ovarian Cancer Surgery Doesn’t Have To End Fertility
8/10/09
LA Times: For younger patients whose disease is at an early stage, five-year survival rates are the same whether doctors remove both ovaries or only the cancerous one, a study finds.

The Women Behind ‘Mad Men’
8/7/09
Wall Street Journal: Behind the smooth-talking, chain-smoking, misogynist advertising executives on “Mad Men” is a group of women writers, a rarity in Hollywood television. Seven of the nine members of the writing team are women. Women directed five of the 13 episodes in the third season. The writers, led by the show’s creator Matthew Weiner, are drawing on their experiences and perspectives to create the show’s heady mix: a world where the men are in control and the women are more complex than they seem, or than the male characters realize.

Lil Wayne Protege A Rare Female Rapper
8/10/09
Reuters: “The lack of female rappers has in some ways made it easier to come up because now there’s an open lane for me,” Nicki Minaj says. “I salute the female rappers who came before me, but it’s my time now.”

With 34 Titles, Clijsters Returns As A Wild Card
8/9/09
NY Times: Kim Clijsters has not played a competitive tennis match in more than two years, yet her status and entourage have grown. When she takes the court here Monday night against Marion Bartoli, she will again be the focus of the women’s tour, an unseeded wild card with a future — and a past — as intriguing as any other player in a loaded tournament.

Song Wins U.S. Women’s Amateur Title
St. Louis Dispatch: Song brought tears to a lot of eyes, including her own, after closing out Jennifer Johnson 3-and-1 on the 35th hole of their championship match at Old Warson. The University of Southern California sophomore became only the second player to win both the U.S. Women’s Public Links and the Women’s Amateur in the same year.