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October 30, 2008 | Joanne Bamberger |
Politics
Stepping Over the Line
Voters know when a candidate has broken the civility rules. More important, they care. A woman hoping to be reelected to her seat in the House of Representatives may well learn that lesson next Tuesday.
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What Is the True Story of McCain’s Wartime Experience?
Journalists have had years to vet John McCain’s account of wartime heroism in Vietnam. But no real critique of its veracity has emerged from leading media outlets. Reporters and commentators remain remarkably disinclined to investigate a major underpinning of McCain’s argument that he is qualified to be commander-in-chief. Here, historian Mary Hershberger questions why.
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The 2008 Women's Conference: Californians Turn Out For an Idea Fix
Celebrities, coping advice, products and services are lavishly available to thousands of women at this annual event hosted by Maria Shriver. Backing up the show is a well-organized network of state organizations offering women and girls support and connection throughout the year.
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October 24, 2008 | Peggy Simpson |
Politics
Net Gain Probable for Women in Congress
Some of the new women candidates for the U.S. House of Representatives are Democrats challenging in red districts. Their victory could swell the Democratic majority.
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National Security: Women Must Define the Priorities Debate
The ‘guns versus butter’ debate is on the way out. Even the U.S. military has realized the importance of providing the latter. For this election and beyond, women leaders are learning how to recast ...
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We All Deserve Time to Be with Loved Ones
The health needs of those we love can suddenly become a top priority for anyone—even a presidential candidate in the final days of a historic election. Only some political leaders and legislators, however, are willing to give all workers the flexibility they must have during a health emergency.
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The New Media Message For Women
While the old boys’ network continues to dominate mainstream media, women are tending to look elsewhere for their news and information. This year, the blogosphere has emerged as a powerful venue for women’s political activity as well.
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How Can 30+ Million Women Be Invisible?
At great consequence to our nation, appallingly high numbers of women of color have not felt compelled to go to the polls in the past. The author set out to find out why and what to do about it.
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McCain Ridicules Health Exemptions for Abortion
The final presidential debate touched on three important issues for women, while women’s groups continue to press the campaigns for an elusive commitment to a Lifetime TV forum that would allow more extensive discussion and questioning.
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A Motherhood Movement for the 21st Century
“You say you want a revolution?” is the theme of an international gathering in Toronto this month, where a grassrootsmovement to give voice and power to the mothers of the world is poised to come of age. The founder of the “rock ‘n roll” wing of the movement tells us what it’s all about.
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Sticks and Stones May Break My Bones
Words matter. From caregivers to teenagers to journalists, use of biased language, often unconsciously, can cause measurable harm, new studies show. The Ad Council, with PSAs featuring Hilary Duff among others, addresses one part of the problem in a campaign launched today.
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Speaking of Change: Women Broadcasters Deliver
Two thirds of the way through the male-moderated presidential debates, history has turned in this election when women broadcasters played a role.
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October 03, 2008 | Peggy Simpson |
Politics
Pundits and Viewers Give Palin a Pass
Governor Sarah Palin’s strategy of avoiding tough questions and talking into the camera will strengthen her connection with the GOP base. Independent voters are another matter.
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October 03, 2008 | Avis A. Jones-DeWeever, Ph.D. |
Politics
Where Have Our Standards Gone?
What does it say about a nation, when the true take away message from a vice-presidential debate is that one of its participants actually does have the ability to string together a series of coherent sentences?
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Robin Morgan: ‘When Sisterhood Is Suicide and Other Late Night Thoughts’
Robin Morgan-whose controversial essay for the Women's Media Center on sexism in the primary race, "Goodbye To All That #2," was reprinted on 3,000 sites around the world-expounds here on women's s...
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Speaker Pelosi: Leadership Tested By Fire
The financial meltdown is testing the leadership abilities of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and then some.
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September 30, 2008 | Patricia DeGennaro |
Politics
Palin Power(less)
No one can argue against the need for a strong foreign policy. As a nation, we face challenges ranging from terrorism and climate change to the enduring wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. None of these problems can be solved without building a better relationship with the rest of the world. None can be solved without creative and informed leaders.
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Weathering the Storm, Then Changing Course
An economic storm is descending, and for many, the storm will be bad. While the Bush Administration and Congress wrestle with how to bail out Wall Street, and argue about how softly CEOs of failed financial institutions should be allowed to land, average citizens must leap into the new reality without benefit of 24-karat parachutes.
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Financial Meltdown Sidelines Politics As Usual
Last week's financial markets crises totally eclipsed the 2008 presidential campaign and changed the ground rules.
Briefings by Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Be...
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Keeping Hold of Your Vision—the Making of Hounddog
One of the dirty secrets of the film business is that it takes women directors a long time to get their films made. The Women, which opened recently, took Diane English 14 years to bring to the screen; other examples include Tamara Jenkins award-winning The Savagesand Kimberly Peirce's Stop-Loss, which took 10 years each. Writer/director Deborah Kampmeier joins this illustrious club with her own decade long trek to see her filmHounddog starring Dakota Fanning finally released in theatres.
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September 15, 2008 | Peggy Simpson |
Politics
Pollsters Grapple With a Sarah Surge
Tracking the women’s vote in this historic presidential election is proving to be tricky.
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September 12, 2008 | Ann E.W. Stone |
Politics
Republicans for Choice Seek Common Ground With Sarah Palin
We at Republicans for Choice (RFC) are strongly pro-choice so we should be upset by John McCain’s pick for vice president of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, who is ardently anti- choice. Let me tell you why we are not. Being pro-choice does not mean we are against women who disagree with us. Her choice is her choice.
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September 11, 2008 International
Russian Women Look Outward to Create Change
The Russian conflict with Georgia may as some predict risk a return to Cold War-style relations. But from what I saw in Chuvashia, an autonomous republic in the Russian Federation, 600 kilometers east of Moscow—from the vantage point of an innovative summer camp that was nearing season’s end—changes in the two decades since the fall of the Soviet Union have taken root.
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September 08, 2008 | Deborah Siegel |
Sports
Sex and the Single Guys, For Real
With all the excitement of the summer games, you may have missed this juicy bit of “news” from Olympic Village: as soon as their competition ended, the athletes apparently got rather busy themselves...
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September 05, 2008 | Carol Jenkins |
Arts and culture
Firaaq or “The Quest”—A Woman Filmmaker at Telluride
If you have had the exquisite pleasure of seeing the films Earth and Fire ( the last of the trilogy is Water) by the genius Indian filmmaker Deepa Mehta, then you know the celebrated actress Nandita Das. Now Das has followed in the footsteps of Mehta, described as “Canada's most internationally renowned woman filmmaker," by directing her first feature.