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Saturday Vids: My AAUW Voting Pep Talk
The American Association of University Women (AAUW) recently asked me to contribute to their "Our Voice. Our Vote" campaign. Here are my thoughts on why I'll be voting in November (and why you should ...
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Feeling American in Paris
As an African American, multi-media journalist Mary C. Curtis enjoyed a welcoming interest among the French—a respect for black culture too often missing back home.
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Women's Suffrage in Egypt: I Thought We Established That
I live in Egypt and, contrary to what many Western people seem to believe, we live in apartments, do not use camels or horses for transportation, spend most of our time in front of T.Vs, computers, sm...
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But I Want To Have It All
It's my nature to think in the long term. Even though I am fully aware that at the age of 18 even though I can drive, rock the vote, and go to war I still have a lot of time before I have to think ser...
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"Having it All?"—The Wrong Question for Most Women
As it has done at least once a decade for the past 40 years, the media seems intent on pitting women against each other in a "Having it All" debate about work inside and outside the home. Author and organizer Ellen Bravo explains why the discussion defies reality.
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Saturday Vids: Mallika Dutt -- The "War On Women" Is Bigger Than You Think
"As the Supreme Court considers key elements of Arizona’s SB 1070 law, which legalizes racial profiling of and blatant discrimination against immigrant communities and people of color, stories from ar...
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Women of the Roundtable
A discussion in Washington, D.C., last week brought together women representing the necessary elements to drive forward the National Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security.
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The Importance of Voting
I am now officially a member of the National Organization for Women (NOW)! NOW is the largest feminist organization in the country, and has been a huge presence in women’s rights advocacy ever since i...
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It's not a revolution for those left behind
“Who should I blame for this? Mubarak for destroying my country’s education so those men have no respect for women and have become just animals … our useless police who are incapable of defending us…our religious leaders who claim that they want what’s best but they don’t go to these young men and teach them what’s right…. Who? … I am sorry for the women of Egypt… . I am angry but I am not broken.”
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Nuns Mad As Hell
As a group of nuns plans to crisscross the country to highlight their work with the poor and powerless, Adele M. Stan explains why we may be witnessing a catalyzing moment in U.S. Catholic history.
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Justice Ginsburg Should Continue to Raise Her Vital Voice
The author of a new book on the rhetoric of women on the Supreme Court argues that the nation needs to continue hearing the voice of Ruth Bader Ginsburg from her hard-won position on the high court.
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Equality Not Partiality
A line in a movie I saw the other day has been bothering the hell out of me. The main character was watching his romantic interest at work. He smiled with all of the charm of a budding movie romance a...
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Why I'm Glad We Don't Have A Woman President
Believe it or not, observing Obama’s presidency has actually made me glad that we don’t currently have a woman in the highest political office. You’re probably gasping with shock, after reading that s...
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Saturday Vids: Obama at Barnard
Obama at Barnard. My favorite line? "Fight for your seat the head of the table."
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Women Work to Save Preventive Care Gains
A fund designed under the Affordable Care Act as an investment in prevention, thus saving future health expenses and enriching people's lives, is under non-stop attack in Congress.
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May Day with Occupy Oakland
The author describes the Occupy movement's action in Oakland last week, in light of a very different mood in the city that greeted the general strike called six months ago.
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Saturday Vids: Clinton Foundation - Celebrity Division
Kristen Wiig is in this video. That's really enough.
Clinton Foundation: Celebrity Division from President Bill Clinton ...
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For "Birthers," Honolulu Mom an Inconvenient Truth
Eleanor Nordyke, who spent her career improving women's reproductive health, has an answer for those who still contend that President Obama was born outside the country: she happened to be on the scene in Honolulu.
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Young Feminists Go Live to Protect Women's Reproductive Rights
Young feminists, whose presence in the current War on Women plays out largely online, plan to emerge from the virtual world with rallies in Nashville and other state capitals April 28.
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Saturday Vids: Nineteen Percent on The Erosion of Roe v. Wade
This video is a few months old but I stumbled across it recently and think it's still (always) very relevant, and a good review of where we were on the reproductive rights debate in 2011. Also, I love...
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Victory for Prevention?
As we celebrate Earth Day this Sunday, the author is cautiously optimistic about a new era with a healthier environment.
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Women as $ocially Aware Entrepreneurs
There are a couple of recent studies that may not be causal factors of one another, but their relationship is hard to ignore: women are more satisfied than men with the success of businesses that they...
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Lawmakers Turn Back the Clock on Women's Rights
On this year's Equal Pay Day, Linda Meric, the executive director of 9to5, National Association of Working Women, explains why pay equity is an economic plus for the United States.
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Tunisia's Women—Defying the Odds
The author, secretary-general of Parliamentarians for Global Action, writes that Tunisia is finding its own way while Islamist movements gain power in the region.
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Saturday Vids: Hillary Clinton's Greatest Moments
“'Let it be that human rights are women’s rights and women’s rights are human rights.' So said Hillary Clinton before the 1995 U.N. Women’s Conference in Beijing. Since then, Clinton has led a crusade...