International Museum of Women

Jessica Simpson And The Acceptable 'Shape' Of Modern Motherhood

Clare Winterton | Posted 05.03.2012

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Clare Winterton

As Jessica Simpson celebrates the birth of a healthy baby, the media is already salivating about her post-baby weight-loss regime. It's time to pause and ask where our obsession with eradicating the physical evidence of pregnancy has come from.2012-05-02-pullquote1.jpg

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What Does Beyoncé's Recent Birth Tell Us About How Much We Value Mothers?

Clare Winterton | Posted 03.25.2012

Read More: Global Motherhood, Gender Equality, Women's Equality, Fair Wages, Maternity, Beyonce Baby, Women's Health, Motherhood, International Museum of Women, Blue Ivy Carter, Maternal Health, Impact News
Clare Winterton

Both the global statistics and our new exhibition at the International Museum of Women, MAMA, tell a story that is very different to the glowing and positive picture that surrounds each new celebrity birth.

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One Woman's Mission: Empowering World's Poorest Girls to Transform World

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Women?S Leadership Development, International Year of Youth, Empowering Girls, Amartya Sen, Social Responsibility, HIV/AID, World Bank, Wangari Maathai, United Nations, Jim Luce, Taliban, Violence Against Girls, Not a Job but a Life, Child Advocate, Women?S Issues, Asia, Sofias, Population Reference Bureau, Developing Countries, International Development, Gender Inequity, Empowering Women of Nepal, Kofi Annan, New York City, Oiww, Girls, Mdgs, Jin In, Bangladesh, Millennium Development Goals, Nepal, Orphans International Worldwide, Female Infanticide, Hillary Clinton, Korean-American, Acid Attacks, International Museum of Women, World News
Jim Luce

I first met Jin In off a snowy sidewalk near Bryant Park in New York City this past winter. She just returned from Nepal, energized. There, she was ...

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Nicholas Kristof Talks About Sex Trafficking, Rape and Raising Kids

Mona Gable | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: New York Times, Sex Trafficking, Nicholas Kristof, Half the Sky, San Francisco, International Museum of Women, Nick Kristof, Media News
Mona Gable

"People always ask, how do you do all this and stay married?" he said to the audience. Let's just say the books are easier to put to bed than the kids. "Books don't play you against each other."

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