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No Slacks In The Office: Gail Collins And Lesley Stahl Relive the Birth of Feminism

wowOwow | Posted 10.21.2009 | Living

Read More: Women's Rights, Women, Relationships, Gender Inequality, Lesley Stahl, Power, Feminism, Gail Collins, Inequality, Gender, Living News

With the release of When Everything Changed, Gail Collins's new book, Lesley and Gail recount the amazing revolution of American women from 1960 to th...

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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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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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Women: We Are Still The Out Crowd

Leslie Grossman | Posted 10.19.2009 | Living

Read More: Women's Rights, Women, Career Women, Gender Inequality, Sex, Careers, Discrimination, Power, Exlusion, Leslie Grossman, Gender, Living News
Leslie Grossman

Recent headlines remind me again that things are far from equal in the power suites of America. What's worse is so many men are not even aware of what they say or what they do publicly to exclude women.

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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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2010 Vancouver Olympic Games: An Opportunity to Change the World

Rahim Kanani | Posted 10.14.2009 | World

Read More: Women's Rights, Clinton Global Initiative, Violence Against Women, Microfinance, Vancouver, Olympics, United Nations, Gender, Vancouver Olympics, Canada, World News
Rahim Kanani

Canada is a model for the world on immigration, diversity and pluralism. Now is the time to reignite Canada's commitment to gender equality and the advancement of women's rights internationally.

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Want Less Risk? Hire More Women!

Dr. Sasha Galbraith | Posted 10.06.2009 | Business

Read More: Earnings, Fed, Women, Pay, Testosterone, Risk Aversion, Banking, Federal Reserve, Compensation, Occupational Sex Segregation, Gender, Risk, Gender Inequalities, Women in Finance, Women CEOs, Business News
Dr. Sasha Galbraith

The higher the amount of testosterone, the more willing people are to take risks. Women, with considerably less of the male hormone coursing through their bodies, are more risk averse.

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We Are All Polanski's Victims, and We All Deserve Justice

Jaclyn Friedman | Posted 12.01.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Rape, Crime, Washington Post, Department of Justice, Justice, Batman, Roman Polanski, Whoopi Goldberg, Gender, Entertainment News
Jaclyn Friedman

In the confused minds of many, Polanski is a real-life Batman, a flawed anti-hero living outside the law because that's the only way he can truly overcome his tortured history.

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The College Insider: Admissions Freak-Out Countdown #2: SAT Prep, The Good, The Bad, And The Goofy

Karen Stabiner | Posted 11.28.2009 | Living

Read More: College Tuition, Sat Prep, Sudoku, College Admissions, Gender, The College Insider, The Balanced Life, Karen Stabiner, Living News
Karen Stabiner

Test-taking strategies: If there's a consensus on anything, it's that your child doesn't want to spend valuable time reading the instructions for the first time on the day of the test. Before you pay for sample tests in a room at a prep center, or proctored by a tutor, consider a few free sample tests at home.

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Women, Men, and Happiness: We're All in Transition

Morra Aarons-Mele | Posted 11.23.2009 | Living

Read More: Joan Williams, Marcus Buckingham, Happiness, Women, Gender Roles, Workplace, Employment, Feminism, Gender, Living News
Morra Aarons-Mele

The huge societal shift brought about by women's move into the workforce has only begun to play out, and its consequences are truly complex. So when telling this story, we should be careful not to isolate our focus to just women.

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Live On Stage: Moms Tell All

Heather Cabot | Posted 11.22.2009 | Living

Read More: Theatre, The Well Mom, Heather Cabot, Moms, Mom-Bloggers, Drug Addiction, Women, Twitter, Children, Family Care International, Theater, Motherhood, Facebook, Babies, Gender, Living News
Heather Cabot

Through a series of new stage productions in New York and elsewhere, mom bloggers and tweeters will step into the spotlight and tell motherhood like it is to a live audience.

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Yin/Yang: An Intersexed South African Runner As Symbol Of The Universal

Suzie Heumann | Posted 11.13.2009 | Living

Read More: Caster Semenya, Shiva, Suzie Heumann, Personal Growth, Gender, Transgendered, Tantra, Intersexed, Yin/Yang, Shakti, Living News
Suzie Heumann

In some cultures, over the millennia, inter-sexed people have even been revered as shamans and holy people - they are closer to the ideal of a balanced, universal soul. Think of the Yin/Yang symbol. We all know it. It means 'balance' - male/female balance.

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Caster Semenya Gender Test: Outrage, Worry In South Africa Over Report

AP | CELEAN JACOBSON | Posted 11.11.2009 | World

Read More: Pretoria, Caster Semenya, Sports, Iaaf, South Africa, Testes, Gender, Hermaphrodite, Man, Female, Track and Field, Male, Woman, Castor Semenya, Castor, Caster Semenya Gender Hermaphrodite, World News

PRETORIA, South Africa — Caster Semenya had heard the taunts and whispers – that she was different from other girls. Now the most intimate...

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Caster Semenya HERMAPHRODITE?: Tests Reveal South African Sprinter Has Both Male, Female Characteristics: REPORT

New York Daily News | By Oren Yaniv | Posted 11.10.2009 | World

Read More: Semanya, Sexual Organs, Ovaries, Caster, Testes, Sprinter, Man or Woman, Gender, Is Caster Semenya a Hermaphrodite, Sports, South Africa, Track, Reproductive Organs, Track and Field, Male or Female, Caster Semenya, Tests, Iaaf, Semenya Hermaphrodite, Caster Semenya XXY, South African Hermaphrodite, Castor Hermaphrodite, Hermaphrodite, Caster Semenya Gender, Hermaphrodite Runner, Caster Semenya's Sex, Caster Semenya Hermaphrodite, South African Female Runner, South African Runner, World News

Tests show that controversial runner Caster Semenya is a woman ...and a man! The 18-year-old South African champ has no womb or ovaries and her testo...

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Transsexual To Be Transferred To Women's Prison

AP | Posted 10.20.2009 | World

Read More: Uk, Phillippa Kaufmann, Judge David Elvin, Prison, Transexual, Jack Straw, Transgender Issues, Gender, World News

LONDON — A British court issued a landmark ruling Friday, allowing a transsexual prisoner serving life for manslaughter and attempted rape to be...

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Why Parents May Cause Gender Differences In Kids

newsweek.com | Posted 10.19.2009 | Living

Read More: Gender Stereotypes, Sex Differences, Parenting, Male, Sex, Lise Eliot, Female, Pink Brain, Blue Brain, Gender, Living News

Among certain parents, it is an article of faith not only that they should treat their sons and daughters alike, but also that they do. If Jack gets L...

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Important and Unimportant Imbalances in the World

Jarvis Coffin | Posted 10.19.2009 | Media

Read More: Wikipedia, Women, Internet, Purchase Decisions, Wall Street Journal, Gender, Mediapost, Media News
Jarvis Coffin

This is interesting: MediaPost referred to a report in the Digits Blog of the Wall Street Journal yesterday that says of 53,000 qualified respondents ...

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After Semenya: Tracking Male and Female, Injury and Insult

Philip N. Cohen | Posted 10.17.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Intersex, Olympics, Sex, Sexism, Track and Field, Caster Semenya, Heterosexism, Gender, Entertainment News
Philip N. Cohen

Men's sex advantage in some sports is not a sexist myth, as The Nation would have you believe.

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No, Not My America, You Mean Our America

2morrowknight | Posted 09.29.2009 | Living

Read More: Conflict, Diversity, Race, Culture, Gender, Ethnicity, Conflict Resolution, America, Demographics, Living News
2morrowknight

Rather than wage a losing fight against impending social and demographic changes, it is incumbent upon people to go beyond their communities, and to get to know the residents of other communities.

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The Unfinished Work of Women's Political Equality

Linda Basch | Posted 09.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: Equality, Politics, Women's Leadership, Gender, Politics News
Linda Basch

Today is Women's Equality Day, the anniversary of the 19th Amendment, granting women the right to vote. Looking around, I see in too many places the unfinished work of women's political emancipation and equal representation.

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Boys Bite Beast

Ellen Snortland | Posted 09.21.2009 | Living

Read More: Misogyny, Bob Herbert, Maureen Dowd, Nicholas Kristof, Gender, Gail Collins, Living News
Ellen Snortland

Women and girls need men and boys who are willing to articulate the injustice they see toward their mothers, sisters, daughters and wives.

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Obama, Clinton: Elevating Women's Issues but Not Global Development?

Nandini Oomman | Posted 09.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Girls, Globalization, Usaid, Secretary Clinton, Poverty, Center for Global Development, Nandini Oomman, Gender, Politics News
Nandini Oomman

The Obama administration has made separate pronouncements on global health, food security and women's rights. It's not yet clear how it will fit these together into a coordinated global development strategy.

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G.I. Jane Breaks The Combat Barrier: Number Of High-Ranking Military Women Rising Considerably

nytimes.com | LIZETTE ALVAREZ | Posted 08.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Military Gender Discrimination, Military Ranks, Gender Discrimination, War in Afghanistan, u.s. War in Iraq, Women in the Military, U.S. Military, Gender, Politics News

Before 2001, America's military women had rarely seen ground combat. Their jobs kept them mostly away from enemy lines, as military policy dictates. ...

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Why We Need to Declutter Our Friendships

Dr. Irene S. Levine | Posted 09.13.2009 | Living

Read More: Aristotle, Friendship, Friend, Declutter, Living News, Toxic, Dynamic, Relationships, Dunbar’s Number, Hoarder, Twitter, Relationship Advice, Gender, Breaking News, Gabonese, Living News
Dr. Irene S. Levine

Audit your friendships -- because having too many bad ones can prevent you from having good ones.

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Hillary Comes Out of the Bill Closet: But How Does She Really Feel?

Phil Bronstein | Posted 09.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Phil Bronstein, Congo, Politics, Gender, Video, Politics News
Phil Bronstein

I've never been a huge Hillary fan, but this was both heartbreaking and endearing, watching the cold steel of a too-often back seat passenger to power explode into the molten lava that's been percolating all these years.

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