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February 8, 2010 – 4:44 pm
Following the landslide victory of Costa Rica’s first female president, women throughout the Central American country are ecstatic. Wrapped in a National Liberation Party flag, Costa Rican Laura Urena exclaimed at the victory celebration, “I couldn’t be happier…It will give new opportunities to women all over the country.”
While her gender may make her a symbol [...]
February 3, 2010 – 9:35 am
By Megan Carpentier
If a budget is the ultimate statement of values, the Obama Administration deserves some good marks for attending to women’s needs in an austere time.
After President Obama released his budget proposal for 2011 Monday, news reports focused on three things: the increased size of the deficit, the new government spending freeze and the [...]
February 1, 2010 – 10:55 am
By Nichola D. Gutgold
Filling the pipeline leading to the first woman elected U.S. president will take candidates who have convinced voters of their executive abilities, argues the writer, author of two books on women’s races for the highest office. The same doesn’t appear to be true for men who run.
He hasn’t even been sworn in [...]
January 28, 2010 – 1:44 pm
There’s been a spirited media discussion about Focus on the Family’s anti-choice ad, which many progressive organizations are asking CBS to pull from the Super Bowl lineup. “Free speech” is a common theme.
Asking CBS to pull the Super Bowl ad is not about censorship or free speech – it’s about pulling a divisive agenda out [...]
January 28, 2010 – 10:10 am
By Pramila Jayapal
Barack Obama persuaded us to hope, says the author, that under his guidance the nation could take on its very toughest challenges. But stepping up to the plate isn’t enough.
I watched President Barack Obama’s State of the Union speech ready to fall in love again or to wage war. I came out [...]
January 22, 2010 – 4:35 pm
With her political strategist hat on, WMC President Jehmu Greene was featured on Fox and Friends last week to comment on Game Change, a “tell-all” exposé of the 2008 presidential campaigns, authored by political reporters John Heilemann and Mark Halperin. Among a myriad of other things, the book quotes Senator Harry Reid in 2008, [...]
January 19, 2010 – 6:07 pm
As Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley hopes for a historic win today in the race for the seat held for 47 years by the late Ted Kennedy, a video is circulating of her opponent Scott Brown pausing and smiling after his supporter yells “shove a curling iron up her butt” during a campaign rally. The [...]
January 19, 2010 – 8:56 am
By Dr. Sharon Ufberg
The author, an activist for women’s health and safety, looks in vain for leadership from women in corporate healthcare boardrooms as negotiations on reform reach the final stage.
Here we are at a pivotal moment in United States healthcare policy, with women’s healthcare rights a big part of the story. So where are [...]
January 14, 2010 – 2:53 pm
Amid the increasingly fierce debates over health care reform, one issue that seemed nearly resolved was discrimination provisions and preventing the abuse of “pre-existing condition” designations. But as Adele M. Stan astutely points out at AlterNet, a provision in the Senate bill would disproportionately affect women – effectively neutralizing efforts to level the playing field of [...]
January 13, 2010 – 5:03 pm
Now in my twenties, I, like most young LGBT folks, spent my adolescent years searching far and wide for accurate, respectful, role-model-worthy representations of LGBT people in the media. It was – and still is – pretty slim pickings. So when I heard that the current trial on California’s Prop 8 ruling, which began on [...]
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