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ShareIn an area of study where men vastly outnumber women, the inaugural Google Science Fair shows an optimistic future for women in the math and science fields. In all three age groups, a female was the top contender for the prize, which included scholarships, internships, and for one winner, a trip to the Galápagos Islands [...]
Share Jill Abramson to be First Female Executive Editor at the New York Times. 6/2/11 Feministing: Jill Abramson, the Washington bureau chief for the New York Times, will be replacing Bill Keller as the executive editor, making her the first woman ever in this position.
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ShareSchwarzenegger, Strauss-Kahn and The Media’s Groping Problem 5/18/11 RH Reality Check: A friendly reminder that groping is, in fact, a real crime defined by a lack of consent, which makes it substantially more similar to rape than it is to ill-advised yet consensual flirting, petting, or sex.
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ShareIMF Head Arrested for Sexual Assault: What Happened, What It Means 5/16/11 AlterNet: IMF Head and popular French Socialist Party politician Dominique Strauss-Khan was arrested on a flight from JFK on charges that he sexually assaulted a chambermaid at his NYC hotel.
By Sarah Schwarz
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Share The World’s Best and Worst Places to Be a Mother 5/6/11 AlterNet: In many parts of the developing world, the day a woman becomes a mother is a day too often obscured by terrible tragedy and danger.
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ShareLara Logan Breaks Ground With Graphic Description Of Her Rape, Injuries 5/2/11 Jezebel: Speaking candidly about her assault and injuries in a new interview, Logan stand up for all the women who don’t want the possibility of sexual assault to curtail their freedom.
By Sarah Schwarz
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Tagged abortion, Entertainment, health care, Lara Logan, Media, rape, reproductive justice, Title IX
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ShareNJ School Superintendent Says Young Women Are Worst Enemy 4/15/11 Clutch Magazine: NJ School Superintendent blames young women for community’s problems, saying, “our worst enemy is the young ladies.”
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ShareNet Neutrality is Key for Women’s Media 4/6/11 Ms.: “If you haven’t already heard of net neutrality, you must get up to speed. What ultimately happens with the fight for free speech on the Internet will have a direct impact on female representation in our media–and in our culture.”
ShareTitle IX Suit Filed Against Yale for “Hostile Sexual Environment” 3/31/11 Jezebel:The federal Office for Civil Rights announced it will open an investigation of Yale for failure to eliminate a hostile sexual environment on campus after 16 students and alumni filed a complaint with OCR.
ShareMedia Execs Consider Quotas to Boost Women’s Newsroom Presence 3/23/11 Fox News Latino: At a meeting of international media executives in Washington, quotas emerged as a possible solution to tackling gender inequality in newsrooms. A report from the International Women’s Media Foundation reveals that men hold 73 percent of the top executive posts in media [...]
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