By Jill Marcellus
Three recent reports offer contradictory messages about women and finance. Taken together, they suggest that women’s greater financial awareness following the recent recession will take them only part way to greater solvency.
For the past decade, the financial industry has puzzled over the gap between women’s desire to take charge of their [...]
By Linda Basch and Shyama Venkateswar
As the U.S. economy shows faint signs of recovery, innovative and diverse leadership is essential. At a recent Leadership Summit in New York City, The National Council for Research on Women identified ways of advancing and retaining women of color in positions of responsibility in the business sector.
CNN anchor Soledad [...]
One thing is clear from the past week’s historic White House public appearances: President Obama has turned an eye to women.
On Thursday, President Obama made the first-ever presidential appearance on a daytime talk show with an interview on The View, a program hosted by five women with an audience makeup of approximately 79% women. In [...]
You know the oft-cited statistic that women make 77 cents for every dollar earned by a man? Heidi Hartmann, President of the Institute for Women’s Policy Research and SheSource expert, claims that’s actually the rosy view of the picture. Over a lifetime of inconsistent employment and inadequate pay, the average woman’s earnings add [...]
The Obama administration still hasn’t appointed Elizabeth Warren to head the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, much to the delight of big banks and to the disappointment of almost everyone else.
President Obama claims to support the Bureau’s goals, so why wouldn’t he put the person who thought of it, advocated for it, and pushed it [...]
On behalf of the Women’s Media Center and The Paley Center for Media, we would like to extend a warm invitation to watch today’s SheSource Luncheon event. Hosted by Pat Mitchell, President and CEO of the Paley Center, this event will provide a forum for women in the media to gain valuable insight on women’s [...]
“Some 40 million Americans – including one in five children – are now living in poverty. For a family of three, that means living on less than about $18,000 a year.”
Ann Curry’s astonishing Dateline special from southeastern Ohio puts the spotlight on a group that has received little to no media attention even, paradoxically, amidst the [...]
The Women’s Media Center stands in solidarity with The National Council of Negro Women and their call for Shirley Sherrod’s reinstatement to the Department of Agriculture. We support Shirley Sherrod and condemn the misrepresentation of her words in the name of an irresponsible and fabricated media controversy.
The National Council of Negro Women
Calls for the Immediate [...]
By Sally Kohn
Commentator Sally Kohn, somewhat confused about Sarah Palin’s recent outreach video, asks here for a bit of clarification.
Dear Ms. Palin,
I’m a little confused by your recent video calling for an uprising of “Mama Grizzlies”—the label you give to conservative women who allegedly have their conservative undergarments in a bunch over President [...]
By Sharon Lerner
While the media focus on “Work-Family Dilemmas of the Rich and Famous,” the average employed mother has few resources and fewer choices, says the author of a new book, “The War on Moms: On Life in a Family-Unfriendly Nation.”
I confess to enjoying celebrity mom coverage, by which I mean not just the articles [...]
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