Sabrina Schaeffer
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Sabrina L. Schaeffer is the executive director of the Independent Women's Forum. Prior to joining IWF, she served in numerous communications positions, including the managing partner of Evolving Strategies. She also served as the speechwriter for Senator George Voinovich of Ohio, the Director of Media Relations and Public Affairs at the Republican Jewish Coalition in Washington, DC, where she frequently served as a spokeswoman for the organization, and as a member of the communications team for Bob McEwen's campaign in Ohio's second district. As a Director at the White House Writers Group, Sabrina worked extensively on designing and orchestrating projects for a range of intellectual, government, and corporate clients on issues including energy policy, transportation policy, and telecommunication deregulation. While working for the White House Writers Group, she also acted as a liaison at the U.S. Department of Labor, where she helped launch "The Skilled Trades Initiative." Sabrina began her career in Washington as an assistant to former United Nations Ambassador Jeane J. Kirkpatrick at the American Enterprise Institute.

Sabrina writes on politics and political culture for Politico's Arena and The Hill's Pundits Blog. She also writes for publications such as The Weekly Standard, Commentary, The Washington Times, and National Review Online, and appears regularly on Fox News Channel and radio stations across the country.

Sabrina received her M.A. in Politics from the University of Virginia. She also earned an M.A. in American History also at UVA.

Blog Entries by Sabrina Schaeffer

Public Office Isn't for Everyone

0 Comments | Posted March 21, 2012 | 1:20 PM

On Friday, I joined PBS's To the Contrary to talk about the shortage of women in elected office. The segment revolved around She Should Run (SSR), a bipartisan, non-profit dedicated to "dramatically increasing" the number of women in elected office.

While the conversation was limited to...

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The Proposal Farce: Entertainment Coupled With Anti-Marriage

15 Comments | Posted February 13, 2012 | 4:36 PM

Call me old-fashioned, but when a man gets down on his knee and talks about building a life together, I expect to hear the words, "Will you marry me?" at the end of the sentence.

That's why I found myself genuinely confused last week while watching the ABC hit-drama...

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Why Can't Girls Just Be Girls?

7 Comments | Posted January 30, 2012 | 2:03 PM

While much of the radical feminism of the 1960s and '70s has fallen by the wayside, some dangerous flotsam and jetsam trail in its wake -- namely, a robust effort to muzzle imaginative play for girls.

This is the message behind a new, anti-Disney princess picture making the rounds...

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Title IX And The Trouble With Quotas

0 Comments | Posted January 18, 2012 | 2:20 PM

April marks the 40th anniversary of Title IX, legislation passed to ensure educational institutions do not discriminate on the basis of gender. That's why the American Association of University Women recently held a "Tweet-Up" with Education Secretary Arne Duncan.

Four decades after the...

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