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My Life in a Binder
The author, after three decades maneuvering through corporate America, writes about what it means to be one of a binder full of women, and how to break free.
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Why Teens’ Attitudes Matter
WMC contest winner Adora Svitak today delivers the Girls’ State of the Union Message at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. Here she investigates what teens really think about sex.
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America’s Girls Need Sports
At a time of shrinking budgets for school and college sports programs, the CEO of the Women's Sports Foundation reminds us that sports are girls' toolkit for success.
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Filmmakers Find Surprises at an Islamic School for Girls in Syria
Airing this week on PBS, "The Light in Her Eyes" portrays a religious teacher pursuing a complicated set of goals to enrich her students' lives.
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Nuns and Virgins
With the republication of her novel set in the 1950s, Caryl Rivers considers the nuns who taught her and those who are still today the heart of the Catholic Church.
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“We Are the Girls from Seton High”
Overcoming her ambivalence, multi-media journalist Mary C. Curtis finds comfort and acceptance at her high school reunion.
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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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Gender Is Key to the Bullying Culture
To reduce bullying and its deadly consequences, argues Jessie Klein, author of the "Bully Society," schools must make the gender connection.
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Lewd, Hateful Language Should Have No Place in Campus Debate
An anticipated commencement address set off a rhetorical firestorm that sickened the author, a Barnard undergrad who calls for action by her campus community.
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Giving Women’s History a Home
Perhaps this year’s Women’s History Month will mark the success of a push for a National Women's History Museum, a campaign that has built up an impressive history of its own.
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Girls Get Called “Slut” Everyday—They Could Be Making Friends Instead
Jessie Klein, author of "The Bully Society," writes that girls need help in building trusting relationships.
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Date Rape Revisited
Twenty-five years after an historic campus study, why are colleges still struggling to deal with the problem?
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Hillary Clinton Launches Public Service Initiative
Working with the nation’s top women’s liberal arts colleges, Secretary of State Clinton hopes to harness the potential of women around the world to strengthen leadership in both government and civil society.
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The Feminization of the College Degree?
College students are graduating this year with record debt, and women, who constitute most of the graduates, struggle for financial independence.
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March 28, 2011 | Kate Farrar, Susannah Shakow |
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Women Missing from the Campus Ballot
The way colleagues and commentators are remembering Geraldine Ferraro this week shows the extraordinary importance of seeing women in leadership roles. Kate Farrar of AAUW and Susannah Shakow of Running Start here point to a critical stepping stone for women aspiring to political office.
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November 03, 2010 | Anna Ziering |
Education
Ready for Right Now: Lessons from a Women’s College
Being educated among women, WMC intern Anna Ziering writes, shaped her understanding of leadership.
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I’ve Seen First Hand What CEDAW Can Do
The author, chief of the Africa Division of UNIFEM, explains the power of the UN treaty to eliminate discrimination against women—a potent tool that will only gain in strength with ratification by the United States.
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Mary Daly, 1928 to 2010
The leading feminist philosopher and theorist died January 3. Here, her friend and former student explains the extraordinary reach of Mary Daly’s fierce intelligence and strong will.
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Yemeni Women Take Control of Their Lives in Brooklyn
Women from a country in the news for its dysfunction and poverty are reaching out to grasp economic opportunities in their new U.S. home, even as they stay true to traditional roots.
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The Inflection Point for the World's Girls and Women
The author is attending a global seminar this week in Salzburg, “Smart Change: Investing in Women and Girls, Leveraging Philanthropy for Global Impact,” to produce an international agenda for action. She argues that, in terms of gender, the world has reached an “inflection point,” when old patterns collapse and new ones emerge.
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With Budget Cuts to Higher Education, Lower-Income Students Struggle
Funding cutbacks not only make tuition less affordable for many college students relying on government loans, but they also affect course availability, campus jobs, and other essential factors for earning degrees.
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When Girls Come First
At a time when both arts and physical education classes are threatened with extinction due to school budget cutbacks, non-profit programs are all the more important, especially for underserved girls.
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Pakistan's Little Rock Nine
Protecting schoolgirls forced to face down the Taliban mob in the Swat valley—education is the place to start, writes the author, toward an equitable and secure future.
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Midwest Teen Sex Show: Can Sex Ed Actually Be Entertaining?
As the author reports, the creators of the podcast believe humor and honest information about sex for teens do mix, and programmers at Comedy Central think they may be on to something.
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Patsy Mink: Paving the Way
Kimberlee Bassford discovers a subject for her documentary who had crafted the laws that made it possible for the filmmaker to achieve her education and career.