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August 01, 2011 | Dr. Sharon B. Ufberg |
Health
Antidepressants and Breast, Ovarian Cancer Link Suggested
Authored by Lisa Cosgrove of the Harvard Center for Ethics, a recent statistical analysis of studies assessing the relationship between breast and ovarian cancer and antidepressant drug use finds possible link.
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July 26, 2011 | Elayne Clift |
Arts and culture
Graffiti—Women Artists Make Their Mark
With Banksy's documentary "Exit Through the Gift Shop" nominated for a 2010 Oscar and recent reports in the New York Times, street art is in the news. Elayne Clift explores the perspective of women graffiti artists.
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July 22, 2011 | Debbie Hines |
Politics
Why Voter ID Laws Will Disenfranchise Women
The author alerts U.S. women that new regulations could block their vote in the 2012 election—over nine decades after women won the franchise.
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July 18, 2011 | Kali Villarosa |
Sports
Why Soccer Matters
Fifteen year old Kali Villarosa writes about why she's inspired by the players and excited at the attention paid to her favorite sport.
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July 14, 2011 Politics
Missing Betty Ford
The author, editor of the WMC Exclusives, recalls a moment decades ago that encapsulates the power and purpose of the former First Lady, who died last week at the age of 93.
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July 11, 2011 | Debbie Hines |
Violence against women
The DSK Case: Gender, Race, Class and Politics
Legal commentator Debbie Hines, formerly a prosecutor in cases of rape and sexual assault, calls on District Attorney Cyrus Vance to continue to pursue the case against Dominique Strauss-Kahn despite any difficulties.
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July 06, 2011 | Ellen Bravo |
Paid Sick Days in Connecticut—It’s About Time!
Governor Dan Malloy announced Tuesday that he had signed legislation providing Connecticut employees with paid sick leave. Activist and author Ellen Bravo and State Senator Edith Prague explain why this is a landmark moment for women and their families.
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June 28, 2011 | Marcia G. Yerman |
International
Yanar Mohammed—Iraqi Women's Vigilant Champion
The democratic spirit of the Arab Spring uprisings is alive and well in the determination of women protesters in Iraq, who are seeing their rights slip away under the current administration.
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June 21, 2011 | Catherine Epstein |
Violence against women
Fairness for Defendants Who Survive Domestic Violence
New legislation is before the New York State legislature that would transform sentencing rules for those convicted of violent crimes against their abusers.
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Tearing Down the Wealth of Women
The author, a doctoral candidate at CUNY Graduate Center whose research centers on gender and wealth, writes about the hit women are taking in mortgage foreclosures
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Peace Laureates Take On the War on Women
Members of the Nobel Women's Initiative are marshaling their collective wisdom and experience to tackle the challenge of ending rape as a weapon of war.
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June 08, 2011 | Patricia Sullivan |
Media
Jill Abramson—A Breakthrough at the NY Times, Decades in the Making
The women who launched the fight for women's advancement at the New York Times enjoy the moment.
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Many Roads to Their Truth—The Topp Twins
In what singer-songwriter Billy Bragg calls their "anarchist variety act," the Topp Twins expand their loyal following beyond New Zealand's borders.
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The Nation's Moral Bankruptcy Crisis
The country may be emerging slowly from fiscal crisis, but Elayne Clift writes that there is no end to moral bankruptcy in the United States.
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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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Now You See Them, Now You Don't
Israeli journalist Merav Michaeli explains why a Brooklyn newspaper recently removed Hillary Clinton from a famous photograph: another case of Photoshop in service to the patriarchy.
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When Bad News is Good News—Notes of a Feminist News Junkie
WMC Cofounder Robin Morgan on surrealism and sexual predators.
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Kate Swift, Feminist Wordsmith, 1923 to 2011
Award winning author and creator of WMC's "Hot Button Words" series Rosalie Maggio recalls the journalist and activist who alerted the modern women's movement to the dangers of sexist language.
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May 11, 2011 | Noushin Darya Framke |
International
Osama Is Dead! Will the Healing Begin?
Iranian-American writer Noushin Darya Framke: it's time to move on from the "war on terror."
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Rape in High Places
Israeli journalist and women's rights activist Merav Michaeli analyzes an iniquitous sense of entitlement among the leaders of nations—and women's resistance.
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May 03, 2011 | Joyce McFadden |
Feminism
Mother-Daughter Bonds—Realizing their Power
Psychotherapist and author Joyce McFadden found some surprising results when she asked women to reflect on sexuality and raising daughters.
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April 29, 2011 | Maria Yatskova-Ibrahimova |
International
Russia’s Image of Woman—In a Country of Extremes
The filmmaker of a documentary about three women in a Siberian prison and a yearly May Day beauty pageant writes about the changing roles and images of women in Russia.
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April 25, 2011 Arts and culture
Hollywood Gender Gap Persists in 100 Top-Grossing 2008 Films
A new study from researchers at the Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism shows that females remain less visible and less valued than males in top feature films—both in front of and behind the camera.
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April 19, 2011 | Julie Burkhart |
Politics
The Birth Police—Rights of Pregnant Women and Their Families
In the current wave of state legislature proposals, the threat to a woman's reproductive rights goes far beyond whether or not she can choose abortion, as the founder of Trust Women PAC explains.
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The Power of “Ruined”
Lynn Nottage's Pulitzer Prize winning play enlightens audiences across the country. Ruined just finished a run in Berkeley, California, plays this month in Denver and opens April 22 in Washington, D.C.