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I Loved Having the 'Cool' Mom -- Until She Wanted to Hang Out With Me

Jill Di Donato | Posted 05.08.2012

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Jill Di Donato

Having a fulfilling adult relationship with your mother offers profound life epiphanies -- but for many of us, that bond doesn't just happen. It takes work.

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Am I Holding Back The Women's Movement?

Amy Shiner | Posted 04.16.2012

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Amy Shiner

If I understand my feminist friends correctly, choice is the primary right that the women's movement worked so hard to gain.

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How to Change the Dialogue on Women's Reproductive Rights

Maria Rodale | Posted 04.05.2012

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Maria Rodale

by guest blogger Hahrie Han, Knafel assistant professor of the social sciences at Wellesley College March was Women's History Month--and what a month...

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What Do Women Want Anyway?

Ken Solin | Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: Emotions, Relationships, Women's Rights, Women's Issues, Women's Movement, What Women Want, Women in Business, Women Earning More Than Men, Love Post50, Fifty News
Ken Solin

Men who insist that women's rights have hurt them in relationships reflect their unwillingness to look deeper into their own behavior.

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Why Women Need to Go H.A.M. for Their Reproductive Health

Danielle Moodie-Mills | Posted 05.08.2012

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Danielle Moodie-Mills

I thought a slut was a woman who allowed anybody access to her body. But isn't that what conservatives are advocating -- that women just lie down, shut up and allow the government to have their way with us?

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Woman-the-Barricades: We Need a Reinvigorated Women's Movement

Peter D. Rosenstein | Posted 05.02.2012

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Peter D. Rosenstein

One must legitimately ask where this assault on women will stop. What will conservative Republicans think they can get away with next if there isn't an uprising saying, "We will not accept this attack on women!"

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Is It Time To Retire The Word 'Wife'?

Lisa Belkin | Posted 04.16.2012

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Lisa Belkin

What, nowadays, is the meaning of the word wife? It certainly is not what it used to be -- but it hasn't yet come to mean something new, either.

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Why I Dislike Marilyn Monroe

Jill Lynne | Posted 02.29.2012

Read More: Marilyn Monroe, East Hampton, Gender Stereotypes, Sexual Stereotypes, Sexism, Gloria Steinem, Women's Movement, Feminism, My Week With Marilyn, Women News
Jill Lynne

The sensibility Marilyn displayed -- alluring but devious and manipulative, infantilizing, a baby babe -- were the very behaviors that we were protesting against, striving not to be.

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Protest time: Support the Occupy Wall Street Movement and a New American Spring

Brent Budowsky | Posted 12.04.2011

Read More: Financial Crash, Labor, Women's Movement, Civil Rights, Occupy Wall Street, Environment, Equal Rights, Liberal, Pay Equity, Politics News
Brent Budowsky

It is time for change; real change. It is time for protest; strong protest. It is time for patriotism; real patriotism where the many Americans are no long ripped off by the few. It is time to mobilize, organize, rally, to stand in the streets with signs and register to vote.

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Who Will Carry The Torch For A New Generation Of Girls?

Marlo Thomas | Posted 09.30.2011

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Marlo Thomas

It seems like a good time to take stock of how far women have come in this world. From my vantage point, I can't think of a more exciting time to be a woman: We've finally reached our era of great expectations.

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Is the Goddess Movement the New Women's Lib?

Carolyn Ziel | Posted 09.27.2011

Read More: Women's Empowerment, Women's Movement, Goddesses, Women's Issues, Women in Business Women's Business, Women News
Carolyn Ziel

Have you heard? There's a new women's movement underway. The Goddess Movement is a new trend in business and it isn't just here in Los Angeles, the o...

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Real You: My Daughter, Myself

Kaira Rouda | Posted 08.21.2011

Read More: Mothers and Daughters, Women's Empowerment, Mother Daughter Relationship, Women's Rights, Women, Women's Issues, Motherhood, Women's Movement, Women News
Kaira Rouda

Thirty years ago, this month, I graduated high school. Tomorrow, my only daughter will celebrate her high school commencement. It's a tough time for me, this letting go.

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The Movement

Marlo Thomas | Posted 05.25.2011

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Marlo Thomas

2011-03-05-marlo.jpgAs Gloria Steinem so wisely commented, "A movement is only people moving." In 1965, women were moving, separately, but headed in the same direction.

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'Feminists Love Divorce!'

Beverly Willett | Posted 05.25.2011

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Beverly Willett

"If there's one thing feminists love, it's divorce - they consider it liberating." That's just one of the claims Phyllis Schlafly and her co-author S...

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The Inaugural Women Entrepreneurs Festival: Building a Better Movement

Jenni Avins | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jenni Avins, Women's Movement 2.0, Maker Movement, Gilt Groupe, Joanne Wilson, Make Magazine, Women Entrepreneurs Festival, Women's Movement, Entrepreneurship, Jen Bekman, Closettour, Dale Dougherty, Alexandra Wilkis Wilson, Business News
Jenni Avins

The Women Entrepreneurs Festival was more about building community -- the kind of community that seamlessly melds technology with art. It's the Women's Movement, 2.0.

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Femen, Ukraine Topless Women's Rights Group, Causes Stir In Protests (PHOTOS)

Posted 05.25.2011

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The brazen young members of Ukraine's women's rights group Femen are going to new lengths to ensure their voices are heard -- and those methods often ...

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Unmarried and Childless at 34: Is It Too Late Now?

Pamela Newton | Posted 11.17.2011

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Pamela Newton

I remember a Lichtenstein that showed a distraught woman with a speech bubble saying, "I can't believe it... I forgot to have children!" Little did I know that I was already on track to becoming that woman.

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America's Favorite Birth Control Method Turns 50

AP | CARLA K. JOHNSON | Posted 11.17.2011

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CHICAGO — A world without "the pill" is unimaginable to many young women who now use it to treat acne, skip periods, improve mood and, of course...

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Are Women Taking Over The World?

Julia Moulden | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Women's Rights, Women's Suffrage, The Balanced Life, Women in Power, Women's Movement, Women Empowerment, Women of Power, Healthy Living News
Julia Moulden

Has -- as Moses Znaimer put it -- "the era of male dominance come to an end"? Do women -- and girls -- rule? Is this a good thing?

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Damn, She's in Distress!

Stephanie Gertler | Posted 11.17.2011

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Stephanie Gertler

Does chivalry begin again when a woman becomes of a "certain age" or is it simply making a comeback?

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On Prime Time, Women Lead the Charge

Laura Brounstein | Posted 05.25.2011

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Laura Brounstein

It's Women's History Month, so let's appreciate the women who are currently leading the charge on prime time. There are a few that have the makings of true icons.

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What's Next From Lady Gaga, a Snuff Film?

Jim Schumacher and Debbie Bookchin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Social Criticism, Children, Telephone Video, Violence, Lady GaGa, Objectification of Women, Media, Music, Culture, Politics, Kids, Product Placement, Celebrity, Video Games, Madonna, Women's Movement, Entertainment, Beyonce, Cultural Criticism, Entertainment News
Jim Schumacher and Debbie Bookchin

Is it really too much to ask that a child be allowed to reach adulthood without thinking that watching two women engaged in a jailhouse beating is prerequisite foreplay for a satisfying sexual encounter?

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The Interior of Empowerment: Reason to Feel Proud as We Celebrate the Centennial of International Women's Day

Gail Straub | Posted 05.25.2011

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Gail Straub

If we combine the interior aspects of empowerment with education in such areas as literacy, health, human rights and entrepreneurship, we will rise to the paramount moral challenge of this century.

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Progressive Women's Voices: Changing the Face of Media, One Woman at a Time

Ileana Jiménez | Posted 05.25.2011

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Ileana Jiménez

Being a part of Progressive Women's Voices has allowed me to amplify my voice while shaping the conversation on issues that are crucial to me and to my students -- diversity and inclusion, equity and justice.

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When Will the Clock Strike for the Next Women's Movement?

Angela Stanley | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Women's Rights, Women's Issues, Women's Revolution, Women's Movement, Politics News
Angela Stanley

It's time for a revolution. Women have been taking hard hits that have gone unanswered for far too long. In an era when "change" has been the theme, women need to follow suit and demand some as well.

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