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A Follow Up: "Hank Moody: For Women Only" (Question)

Reese Schonfeld | Posted 10.24.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Poll, Gender, Cable Television, Media News, Gender Issues, Mad Men, Women, Dating, Relationships, Survey, Don Draper, Cable, Women's Issues, Cable Tv, Hank Moody, Californication, Entertainment News
Reese Schonfeld

Despite at times being self-centered, lewd and at times irresponsible, would you date and/or marry Hank Moody?

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Don Draper: For Women Only, Please Respond

Reese Schonfeld | Posted 10.19.2009 | Media

Read More: Mad Men, Women, Cable, Women's Issues, Sexism, Cable Television, Gender Issues, Survey, Cable Tv, Tufts, Poll, Don Draper, Culture Change, Gender, Media News
Reese Schonfeld

I am associated with the Culture Change Institute, a Tufts based group founded by Sam Huntington and Larry Harrison, which examines various cultures r...

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Go Ahead, Let Outrage Start the Much Needed Gender Conversation

Andrea Learned | Posted 09.08.2009 | Business

Read More: Speaker Gender, Leadership, Leader Gender, Gender Issues, Feminism, Sexism, Gender Conversation, Feminist, Gender, Business News
Andrea Learned

We don't need a fight to the death between men and women to see who is "better." Rather we need to be identifying those qualities women tend to have that make them transformational leaders.

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A Pro Bono Transgender Primer

Dr. Jon LaPook | Posted 07.19.2009 | Living

Read More: Coming Out as Transgender, Chastity Bono Sex Change, Sex Change, Chastity-Bono-Transitioning, Gender Issues, Transgender Issues, Chaz Bono, Living News
Dr. Jon LaPook

What exactly does transitioning mean? It's the period during which somebody starts to live as his/her new gender. One misconception is that transitioning requires surgery.

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How the Capital Market Failures and the Inability to Achieve Gender Equity are the Same

Laura Liswood | Posted 02.21.2009 | Business

Read More: Laura Liswood, Saadia Zahidi, Women's Leadership, Iris Bohnet, Gender Inequity, Risk Management, Risk Modeling, Global Gender Gap Report, World Economic Forum, Women, Women's Issues, Economy, Gender Issues, Gender, Business News
Laura Liswood

My experience in both the financial world and the field of women's leadership allows me to recognize that both market failures and gender inequality stem from the same combination of elements.

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Guys and Dolls

Stephanie Fairyington | Posted 02.09.2009 | Living

Read More: Women, Growing Up, Webkinz, Children, Boys, Parenting, Feminism, Femininity, Social Activism, Gender, Girls, Marlo Thomas, Free to Be You and Me, Kids, Masculinity, Gender Issues, 1970s, Good Morning America, Family, Gender Stereotypes, Gender Roles, Living News
Stephanie Fairyington

The success of web-based interactive dolls like Webkinz indicates that boys respond to toys that tap into their fatherly instincts; for the month of October alone, boys made up 36% of the site's visitors.

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Join Me on Ada Lovelace Day

Suw Charman-Anderson | Posted 02.09.2009 | Living

Read More: Women's Empowerment, Linkedin, Twitter, Empowerment, Ada Lovelace, Gender Issues, Technology, Female Friendships, Gender, Living News
Suw Charman-Anderson

Why do women feel less secure in their abilities than most men? Recent research may shed some light: women need to see female role models more than men need to see male ones.

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Reading Between the Lines in The Reader: When is Abuse Not Abuse?

Thelma Adams | Posted 01.02.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Miley Cyrus, Germany, Kate Winslet, Holocaust, Academy Award Nominees, Stephen Daldry, The Reader, Hugh Jackman, Film, Auschwitz, Sexual Abuse, Ralph Fiennes, Movies, David Hare, Oscar Nominees, Child Abuse, Statutory Rape, Harvey Weinstein, Nazis, Sexual Double Standard, Gender Issues, Literary Adaptation, Annie Liebowitz, Cougar Women, Bernard Schlink, Entertainment News
Thelma Adams

The Reader? It's goodish. And Kate Winslet is, as ever, brilliant. And it has Nazis, which elevates it on the Oscar nom scale. But it doesn't fully address the fact that Michael is a victim of abuse.

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Changing the Landscape for Women

Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 12.10.2008 | Politics

Read More: Lily Ledbetter Act, Paley Center for Media, Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Ann Coulter, Pray the Devil Back to Hell, Dr. Jennifer H. Mieres, Faye Wattleton, Barack Obama, Pat Mitchell, Center for the Advancement of Women, Women's Health, Obama Presidency, Abagail E. Disney, Gender Issues, Dr. Nancy Snyderman, Women and Power, Politics News
Marcia G. Yerman

With the election of Barack Obama, women voters who put him in the Oval Office will be waiting to see if gender issues are a priority.

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