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Upcoming: Omega’s Women & Power Conference

September 1, 2010 – 3:41 pm

“Accountability, holism, integrity, service, simplicity, sustainability, teamwork, and welcoming.” The Omega Institute’s mission and values statement about says it all.
From September 24 through 26, Omega will hold its annual Women & Power Conference, celebrating all of these values and the women who successfully practice them.
The 2010 take on the conference is “Our Time to [...]

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Women’s eNews Joins WMC’s #SheParty for Women’s Equality Day

August 23, 2010 – 1:32 pm

Since its inception in May, Women’s Media Center’s #SheParty has offered women an open forum on Twitter to discuss the issues that matter to them, no matter where they live.  Week after week, women come together at #SheParty  to debate everything from emerging definitions of feminism to the war in Afghanistan to positive role models [...]

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EXCLUSIVE Maria Shriver Takes On Alzheimer’s Advocacy

August 16, 2010 – 10:15 am

By Marianne Schnall
In her final year as California’s First Lady, Maria Shriver turns public attention to Alzheimer’s advocacy at her influential California Governor & First Lady’s Conference on Women.  Reflecting on an interview with Shriver, author and Feminist.com founder Marianne Schnall explores the personal stories and experiences behind Shriver’s decision.
For Maria Shriver, a passion for [...]

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EXCLUSIVE Women and Wealth—Taking the Pulse

August 13, 2010 – 7:05 am

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 [...]

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Body Typed: Short Films on Perfection

August 10, 2010 – 12:01 pm

Women’s Media Center is proud to partner with Paradigm Shift in hosting a screening and discussion event of Body Typed, a series of short films that use humor to raise serious concerns about the marketplace of commercial illusion and unrealizable standards of physical perfection.  The event will be held on August 18 at 6:30 PM [...]

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Women of “The Daily Show” and “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon” at Comix

August 5, 2010 – 1:44 pm

In the New York area?  Catch co-creator and former head writer of Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show” Lizz Winstead and writer for NBC’s “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon” Morgan Murphy at Comix NY this weekend.  For more information, go to Comix NY.
Lizz Winstead & Morgan Murphy

LIZZ WINSTEAD
As a co-creator and former head writer of Comedy [...]

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EXCLUSIVE AIDS Breakthrough for Women

August 5, 2010 – 10:05 am

By Linda Villarosa

In this second WMC report on the XVIII International AIDS Conference in Vienna, Linda Villarosa explains why the development of a medicinal gel is both a lifesaving step forward for women and an affirmation of women and African Americans working to develop treatments.

The new gel to treat HIV/AIDS is a potential game [...]

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SheSource Luncheon: “The message is ‘work longer’”

July 31, 2010 – 11:12 am

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 [...]

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Watch the WMC SheSource Luncheon via Livestream 12-2 PM EDT Today!

July 27, 2010 – 8:41 am

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 [...]

By Elizabeth Camuti | Also posted in *Feature*, Economy, Media, Social Media | Comments (2)

Guyland: Expanding Feminism to the Human Experience

July 21, 2010 – 1:11 pm

I’m tired of talking about women.  I am.  Admittedly, women’s voices are so disproportionately underrepresented in society at large that my individual focus on women benefits the whole.  But in the scope of one person’s life, focusing on one gender to such a degree can grow tiresome.  Which is exactly why Paradigm Shift’s Guyland lecture [...]

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