WMC News & Features
The Problems We Mothers Wish We Had
While the media focus on “Work-Family Dilemmas of the Rich and Famous,” the average employed mother has few resources and fewer choices, says the author of a new book, “The War on Moms: On Life in a Family-Unfriendly Nation.”
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May 04, 2010 | Laura Tillman |
Immigration
On a Border Near Arizona: How Police Can Protect Immigrant Women
As the Arizona governor tries to push back criticism of the new immigration law, other Southwest communities concentrate on fighting actual criminal behavior. The author describes a case in point in Brownsville, Texas.
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The Way We Talk About "Women's Lit"
Marketing demands and an underlying thread of sexism in the publishing industry work together to trivialize literature written by women, argues WMC Progressive Women’s Voices commentator Courtney Young.
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April 30, 2010 | Kate McCormack |
Violence against women
Sexual Assault: Considering Those Most At Risk
This month’s emphasis on sexual assault awareness tends to ignore the trauma of one group of women who are among those least able to prevent attacks or defend themselves.
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The Tea Party Movement - Taking the Pulse
So far this election year, the angry grass-roots organizing energy is strongest on the right, but the Tea Partiers are hard to pigeonhole says veteran D.C. journalist and frequent WMC reporter Peggy Simpson.
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The Tea Party Comes Out
A fear of diversity is at the center of Tea Party anger, argues The White House Project’s Marie Wilson—the very quality that produces good decision-making and the innovation that is likely to pull us out of the Great Recession.
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Saving the Earth: What Science Can’t Accomplish
As we celebrate the 40th anniversary of Earth Day, the author describes how women have worked to break through the seemingly impervious bureaucracy at the UN to finally impress on world leaders that saving the earth depends on guaranteeing women equal rights and status.
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The Paycheck Fairness Act: Now an Economic Imperative
On this Equal Pay Day, the author, executive director of the national education equity organization AAUW, argues that the nation’s recovery from the Great Recession depends on fair pay for women.
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April 19, 2010 | Debbie Hines |
Politics
Obama’s Supreme Court Choice: Plenty of Talent—and an Opportunity
A half dozen extraordinary women occupy the White House list of candidates to replace Justice Stevens on the Supreme Court, according to reports. The author argues that President Obama should seize this chance to make a historic step toward true diversity at the top of the judiciary system.
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Bactria Revisited: Does Alexander Have Lessons for Obama in Afghanistan?
The Pakhtuns of Afghanistan and across the border in Pakistan haven’t always rejected influences from the West. The author suggests that Alexander the Great’s success in the 4th Century B.C. may hold a key to integrating Afghanistan into the international community—in a way that would help protect and empower women in the region.
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Remembering Abeer: Anatomy of a War Crime
In 2006, WMC began a media campaign to ensure that the girl who fell victim to a heinous U.S. war crime in Iraq would not be forgotten. Here, the writer of previous WMC Exclusives about the case describes new information from a recent book by Time magazine’s Jim Frederick.
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“The Heretics”: Women of the Heresies Collective
The author interviews the maker of a documentary that captures a prolific period of feminist art, focusing on the collective as, according to the film web site, “a microcosm of the larger international women’s movement, in which thousands of small, private groups of women met together in forms unique to their own settings.”
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That Notorious Good Friday Homily
In his controversial sermon at St. Peter’s last week, Reverend Raniero Cantalamessa expressed no concern for Catholic Church policies that endanger women, writes Angela Bonavoglia, author of “Good Catholic Girls: How Women Are Leading the Fight to Change the Church.”
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Leaders as Guides of Return: Wilma Mankiller
In her book, Revolution from Within (1992), Gloria Steinem tells a story about her close friend and collaborator Wilma Mankiller, who died yesterday. In the excerpt below (pages 94 to 98), Steinem describes how Mankiller, even before she became the first woman chief of the Cherokee Nation, led by empowering her people.
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April 06, 2010 | Alexis Sclamberg |
Politics
Make Room on the Bench
U.S. law schools now graduate as many women as men, and women are nearly half of all law firm associates. But representation in the judiciary branch is far from equal, a recent study shows.
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A Vibrant Encounter Space Online: The International Museum of Women
The International Museum of Women is an innovative “new media” approach that utilizes women’s creative powers as a bridge for activism.
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Women’s History Spotlight: Jeannette Rankin
Director Kamala Lopez’s film tells the story of the first woman elected to the House of Representatives, one who bridged the suffrage, civil liberties, anti-war and women’s movements of 20th century America.
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March 23, 2010 | Nichola Gutgold |
Politics
Women’s History Month Primer: Running for Office
At the highest level of elective office in the United States, we’ve seen only a few women go after a major party nomination. The author, a professor of communications arts and sciences, extracts some lessons from their campaigns.
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Health Insurance: States Move Ahead on Curbing Costs
Whatever happens with health reform in Washington, D.C., unfair health insurance rates for women are being banned by an increasing number of states. Here, two New Mexican advocates tell how it happened in their state.
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The Right to Choose: Family Lessons
Far from a generational divide, the author, as a young feminist, finds sustenance in the ways the women in her family handled their more limited life choices.
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Is Wealth a Feminist Issue?
Better paying jobs aren’t enough to ensure women’s economic stability, according to a new study. For black women and Latinas in particular, a focus on bridging the “wealth gap” rather than the pay gap may make the most sense.
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New Hope for Progress Among U.S. Delegates to UN Meeting
Women have been stymied for years in efforts to achieve U.S. ratification of CEDAW, the UN treaty to eliminate discrimination against women. Now, meeting at the UN, U.S. women hope to regain influence in establishing rights for women around the world.
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In Chile, Bachelet Steps Down
Michelle Bachelet’s presidency comes to a tumultuous end less than two weeks after her country withstood an 8.8 magnitude earthquake. Here, the author assesses what her term in office has meant for women in Chile and what lies ahead.
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Tomorrow's Journalism
As the world recognizes International Women’s Day, essayist Mary Kay Blakely assesses the contribution of women’s media, not the least of which may well be charting a path to a healthy journalism that serves the public good.
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March 04, 2010 | Sam Bennett |
Politics
Who Needs More Women in Government? Everyone
Women leaders have shown they know how to work together, whether it’s in the public or private sector. Women’s Campaign Forum President Sam Bennett describes a new initiative to put enough women in office this year to overcome the political impasse plaguing our nation’s lawmakers.