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Girls Investigate: From Face to Facebook

March 18, 2010 – 9:14 am

 
 
Girls Investigate: Social Media’s Merits & Minuses
By Nadia Tareen
 
Imagine – the typical teenage girl of 2010. Her fingers are tapping away on the keyboard of her cell phone, her eyes are feverishly glued to the screen. Sure, stereotypes are unreliable and sweeping, but in this case, I can attest that it is somewhat valid. My [...]

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The Right to Choose: Family Lessons

March 17, 2010 – 8:32 am

by Shruti Swamy
Far from a generational divide, the author, as a young feminist, finds sustenance in the ways the women in her family handled their more limited life choices.

It’s hard for me to imagine what my grandmother’s youth was like, spent in rural and then urban India. At 16, she was arrange-married to a [...]

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Is Wealth a Feminist Issue?

March 15, 2010 – 11:00 am

by Latoya Peterson
Better paying jobs aren’t enough to ensure women’s economic stability, according to a new study. For black women and Latinas in particular, a focus on bridging the “wealth gap” rather than the pay gap may make the most sense.
New research from Insight Center for Community Economic Development reveals disturbing data about a widening [...]

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New Hope for Progress Among U.S. Delegates to UN Meeting

March 12, 2010 – 10:22 am

Women have been stymied for years in efforts to achieve U.S. ratification of CEDAW, the UN treaty to eliminate discrimination against women. Now, meeting at the UN, U.S. women hope to regain influence in establishing rights for women around the world.
The theme of the 54th session of the United Nations Commission on the Status [...]

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In Chile, Bachelet Steps Down

March 10, 2010 – 9:11 am

By Maxine Lowy
Michelle Bachelet’s presidency comes to a tumultuous end less than two weeks after her country withstood an 8.8 magnitude earthquake. Here, the author assesses what her term in office has meant for women in Chile and what lies ahead.
The massive earthquake that struck Chile before dawn February 27 prompted the government to declare [...]

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Tomorrow’s Journalism

March 8, 2010 – 9:45 am

By Mary Kay Blakely
As the world recognizes International Women’s Day, essayist Mary Kay Blakely assesses the contribution of women’s media, not the least of which may well be charting a path to a healthy journalism that serves the public good.
Everyone I know is alarmed by the disappearance of city newspapers and the retreat [...]

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Who Needs More Women in Government? Everyone

March 4, 2010 – 10:10 am

By Siobhan “Sam” Bennett
Women leaders have shown they know how to work together, whether it’s in the public or private sector. Women’s Campaign Forum President Sam Bennett describes a new initiative to put enough women in office this year to overcome the political impasse plaguing our nation’s lawmakers.
I know I’m not the only one [...]

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“Elders” Fight Misuse of Religion to Oppress Women and Girls

March 3, 2010 – 12:29 pm

By Marianne Schnall
Former Presidents Jimmy Carter and Mary Robinson say women and girls are the victims of dangerous practices too often justified in the name of religion and tradition. They are members of a prestigious international group that is spotlighting the issue.
Violence against women and girls is an international epidemic. According to the United Nations, [...]

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A Transformative Oscar Moment?

March 1, 2010 – 11:43 am

By Melissa Silverstein
Women & Hollywood’s blogger here assesses the implications of a historic win for Kathryn Bigelow.
In less than one week, March 7 to be exact, the Hollywood awards season will be over, and chances are very good that for the first time a woman—Kathryn Bigelow—will have won the best director Oscar for [...]

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Health Care Reform—Obama’s Challenge

February 25, 2010 – 9:42 am

By Megan Carpentier
Obama meets with Republicans today in a health-care summit. Women who helped put him in office expect him to step up and lead—on both access to quality care and access to abortion.
When House Speaker Nancy Pelosi allowed Bart Stupak’s anti-abortion amendment to the health care reform bill to come to a vote in [...]

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