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Mourning Jeanne-Claude: Christo's Extraordinary Partner

Jezebel | Posted 11.20.2009 | Living

Read More: Christo, Gender Equality, Art, Partnerships, Relationships, Jeanne-Claude, Feminism, Culture, Living News

One of the most salient qualities about the 51-year relationship between Christo and Jeanne-Claude is that they were true partners. Theirs was no arti...

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Play Gender Bias Bingo!

Joan Williams | Posted 11.18.2009 | Business

Read More: Women and Science, Professor, Gender Equality, Academics, Gender Stereotypes, Discrimination, Working Mothers, Mothers, Business News
Joan Williams

For over a decade, I have studied thirty years of experimental social psychology studies of gender bias. One message is clear -- gender bias, alas, is alive and well.

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Pyrrhic Victoria: Why Men Are Becoming More Like Women

Marcus Buckingham | Posted 11.17.2009 | Living

Read More: Find Your Strongest Life, Are Women Happy, Gender Equality, Man's World, Marcus Buckingham, State of American Women, State of Women, Women Happiness, Gender Wars, Happiness, Living News
Marcus Buckingham

Men are becoming more like women and so men are starting to face the same multitude of choices that women tackle.

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A Book of One's Own: The Myth of a Top Ten

Madeline Wheeler | Posted 11.16.2009 | Books

Read More: Top Ten List, Gender Equality, Jaclyn Friedman, Female Authors, Publishers Weekly, Rape, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Rape Culture, Jessica Valenti, Rebecca Skloot, She Writes, Yes Means Yes, Books News
Madeline Wheeler

When asked to come up with a list of the top 10 books for 2009 to counter Publisher's Weekly all male Top Ten Best Books of 2009, the 'She Writes' members decided to blog.

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You CAN make a difference!

Ellen Snortland | Posted 11.19.2009 | Impact

Read More: Now That She's Gone, Women's Rights, Leadership, Social Justice, Nepal, Bill Liao, Esra'a Al Shafei, Maggie Doyne, Re-Foresting, Lakshmi Venkatesan, Gender Equality, Global Transformation, Stone Soup, Udhr, Sustainability, Rebecca Self, Subhash Ghimire, Esgt, Impact News
Ellen Snortland

The European Summit for Global Transformation started when a group of friends asked, "What if we got together everyone we knew who's up to big things on the planet?" The results have exceeded everyone's expectations.

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The Most Important Women's Rights Legislation in History? To Some, It Was Just a Joke

William Petrocelli | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Sex Discrimination, Civil Rights at of 1964, Gail Collins, Gender Equality, Health Care Debate, Policy Reform, Politics News
William Petrocelli

It's common wisdom among political scientists that any fundamental social change requires a change in public attitude before it can be enshrined into law. Don't rush too fast, experts advise.

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The State Of The American Woman

Therese Borchard | Posted 11.02.2009 | Living

Read More: Gender Equality, Women's Rights, American Women, Feminism, Happiness, Gender, Living News
Therese Borchard

Women are much more powerful than they were forty years ago. But they are stressed, anxious, and not as happy. Why?

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Democrats' Quiet Changes Pile Up

Wall Street Journal | JONATHAN WEISMAN | Posted 11.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: What Has Obama Done, Public Lands Law, F22, Hate Crimes Bill, Gay Hate Crime, Equal Pay, Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, Obama, F-22, Democrats, Usgs, Army's Future Combat System, Gender Equality, VH-71, White House, Democratic Party, Barack Obama, Lilly Ledbetter, Health Care Reform, What Has Obama Accomplished, Gop, Defense Spending Bill, Tobacco Law, Health Care, Republicans, Tobacco Regulation, Politics News

While President Barack Obama still faces stiff headwinds on a range of major legislation on his agenda, he has been signing into law a slew of smaller...

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When Everything Changed, by Gail Collins

Elaine Showalter | Posted 10.29.2009 | Books

Read More: The National Organization for Women, Progressive Book Club, American Women, Gender Equality, Book Reviews, Civil Rights, Women's History, Mad Men, Equal Rights Amendment, Betty Draper, Women, Gail Collins When Everything Changed, Books, Mad Men Betty Draper, When Everything Changed, Gail Collins, Books News
Elaine Showalter

Collins uses her great sense of revealing anecdotes, engaging personalities, representative case histories, resonant stories, and startling details to defamiliarize a decade we thought we remembered.

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Pink Taxis, Quotas, and Global Gender Equality

Michael Kimmel | Posted 10.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Global Gender Equality, Pink Taxis, World Economic Forum, Women's Empowerment, Gender Equality, Women's Rights, Norway, Puebla New Mexico, Mexico Pink Taxis, Norway Cabinet, Mexico, Women in Business, Scandinavia, Gender Equality US, Feminism, Politics News
Michael Kimmel

A fleet of 35 pink taxis recently debuted in Puebla, Mexico, a colonial city halfway between Mexico City and Veracruz. These taxis are driven only by women, and they do not stop for male passengers.

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Woman Denied Health Care Insurance After Rape Tells Her Story (Video)

The Huffington Post | Posted 10.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Bill, Christina Turner, Huffpost Investigative Fund, Hiv, Preexisting Condition, Rape, rapeisnotapreexistingcondition.com, Sexual Assault, Gender Equality, Insurance Industry, Rapisnotaprexistingcondition, Anderson Cooper, Women's Health, Health Insurance, Health Care Reform, Health Care, Health Reform, Com, Politics News

Christina Turner was drugged and raped by two men in 2002. After taking anti-HIV drugs prescribed by her doctor as a preventative measure, Turner was ...

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Big News: Women Can Write!

The Huffington Post | Erica Jong | Posted 10.20.2009 | Books

Read More: Women's Rights, Olive Kitteridge, Writers, Books, Herta Mueller, Female Writers, Wolf Hall, Fiction Prizes, Gender, Authors, Gender Equality, Sexism, Hilary Mantel, Women Writers, Elizabeth Strout, Marilynne Robinson, Literature Prizes, Books News

We have known that women could write since Sappho invented love poetry 2600 years ago. Emily Dickinson, Charlotte Bronte, Jane Austen, George Eliot co...

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Women's Wages Rose Faster Than Men's During Recession

Wall Street Journal | SARA MURRAY | Posted 10.17.2009 | Business

Read More: Pay, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Economy, Wages, Jobless, Jobs, Laid Off, Recession, Gender, Layoffs, Gender Equality, Unemployment, Inflation, Work, Salary, Business News

The wages of the typical woman who had a job during the worst recession in decades rose faster than those of the typical man, new data from the Bureau...

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WISE Muslim Women Standing Up

Sumbul Ali-Karamali | Posted 10.10.2009 | World

Read More: Egypt, Philippines, Women's Rights, Equality, Islam, Muslim Women, Fgm, Gender Equality, Muslim, Female Genital Mutilation, Women's Health, Islamic, Clitoridectomy, Female Genital Cutting, World News
Sumbul Ali-Karamali

Along with over 200 other Muslim women from 55 countries, I attended panels and seminars, all focused on educating and empowering Muslim women and promoting their rights from an Islamic perspective.

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Lessons From Coco Chanel, a Self-Made Woman

Rachael Chong | Posted 10.05.2009 | Business

Read More: Coco Before Chanel, CoCo Chanel, Entrepreneurship, Gender Equality, Social Entrepreneurship, Glass Ceiling, Clinton Global Initiative, Women Entrepreneurs, Women and Girls, Business News
Rachael Chong

A woman ahead of her time, Coco Chanel was a true entrepreneur, who brought women freedom through fashion.

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Could Michael Moore Know Why Women Are Unhappy?

Kamala Lopez | Posted 11.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Equal Rights Amendment, Gender Equality, Capitalism: A Love Story, Michael Moore, Era, Equal Rights, Women's Unhappiness, Now, Kim Gandy, Alice Paul, Fourteenth Amendment, Congresswoman-Carolyn-Maloney-Senate, Linda Wharton, Feminist Majority, Politics News
Kamala Lopez

Simply put -- are women, should women be equal or not? Not implicitly equal. Not equal in New York state but not so much in Georgia. Not equal in every area as compared to men. Just equal, plain and simple?

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Women's Equality Day -- Thank you President Jimmy Carter

Ellen Snortland | Posted 09.26.2009 | Living

Read More: Helen-Lakelly-Hunt, Sheryl WuDunn, Gender Equality, Women's Suffrage, The Hunger Project, Jimmy Carter, Nicholas Kristof, Swanee Hunt, Voting, Living News
Ellen Snortland

We need a voting holiday to celebrate women getting the right to vote. Let's make the suffragists icons for peaceful non-violent social change.

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Men Hit Hard When Jobs Disappear

Peggy Drexler | Posted 09.03.2009 | Living

Read More: Gender Role, Gender Equality, Women Employment, Two Income Household, Male Unemployment, Economic Crisis, Living News
Peggy Drexler

Gender roles have been reinforced since the days when fathers provided or families starved. They won't go away quietly.

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A Field Without Women

Rep. Linda Sanchez | Posted 07.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Congressional Baseball, Gender Equality, Baseball, Women Athletes, Title IX, College Sports, Politics News
Rep. Linda Sanchez

Title IX's achievements are in grave danger of being scaled back. Gender equality cannot be achieved by cutting programs that allow girls to get the same chance to compete, learn, and play.

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The Senate Should Immediately Pass the Paycheck Fairness Act

Katie Buckland | Posted 05.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Katie Buckland, Caliornia Women's Law Center, Equal Pay for Women, Equal Pay Day, Gender Equality, U.S.-Gender-Equality, Women's Issues, Equal-Pay-for-Women, Women's-Equal-Pay-Day, Women's Rights, Gender-Equality, Politics News
Katie Buckland

As I turn the page of my calendar and see next Tuesday marked Equal Pay Day, I cannot possibly imagine why we are still having this debate.

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Report from Rio: Men and Boys in Gender Equality

Pedro C. Moreno | Posted 05.02.2009 | World

Read More: Unifem, Pedro Moreno, Women, Youth, UN Commission on the Status of Women, Macarthur Foundation, Who, Men, Beijing 1995, Nike Foundation, Bangladesh, Brazil, Unaids, Gender Equality, Father and Daughter Alliance (FADA), Cida, Fatherhood, India, Un, Promundo, Wall Street Journal, Civil Rights, Rio De Janeiro-Brazil, World News
Pedro C. Moreno

What is striking about this meeting is the number of men involved -- accounting for at least half the attendants. A far cry compared to other gatherings on women.

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Yes You Can

Heather Frank | Posted 03.01.2009 | Politics

Read More: Women's Rights, Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, Activism, Interdependence, Gender Equality, Equality, Women's Issues, Money, Gloria Steinem, Women and Politics, Politics News
Heather Frank

One person really can make a difference, as we saw so clearly today with the signing of the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Restoration Act.

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Lilly Ledbetter's Courageous Acts Pump Up Your Pocketbook

Gloria Feldt | Posted 02.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Leadership, Pay Equity, Economy, Paycheck Fairness Act, George W. Bush, Lisa Maatz, Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, 111th Congress First Legislation, Center for American Progress, Barack Obama 2008, Power of Women in Politics, Courageous Acts, Gender Equality, Linda Hallman, Women's Voices Women Vote, Lilly Ledbetter, Economic Stimulus, Courage to Act, Aauw, Politics News
Gloria Feldt

Hey, women: want to earn a cool half million? That's about what the average woman loses over a career lifetime due to gender inequities in pay for the same jobs as men.

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Obama: Ratify the Women's Convention Soon

Marjorie Cohn | Posted 01.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Women's Rights, Gender Equality, Civil Rights, US Ratification of CEDAW, George W. Bush, Obama Women, Cedaw, Jimmy Carter, Barack Obama, Politics News
Marjorie Cohn

Although President Carter signed CEDAW in 1980, the treaty has never been sent to the full U.S. Senate for its advice and consent to ratification.

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