Women

'Tis the Season to be Green

Charlotte Safavi | Posted 12.24.2009 | World

Read More: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Women, Mir Hossein Mousavi, Iran, Islamic Republic of Iran, Time Magazine, Internet, Iran Election, Youtube, Social Networking Sites, Twitter, Media, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Facebook, Iran Nuclear Weapons, Magazines, World News
Charlotte Safavi

Whether or not the green aspirations of regular Iranian citizens will be met, to me they have helped resurrect the identity of a nation, or at the very least, repaint it in a different hue.

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Laboring Under An Illusion: Mass Media Childbirth vs. The Real Thing

Amie Newman | Posted 12.23.2009 | Living

Read More: Birth, Birthers, Women, Entertainment, Reproductive Rights, Natural Childbirth, Media Criticism, Women's Health, RH Reality Check, Media, Parenting, Mass Media, Childbirth, Health, Living News
Amie Newman

Elson has been working with pregnant women for many years; her answers to my questions and her perspective seem wonderfully balanced, rooted in a concern for what is best for women.

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How To Spot That Toxic Friend

Susan Shapiro Barash | Posted 12.22.2009 | Living

Read More: Relationships, Stress, Women, Weakness, Low Self Esteem, Honesty, Insecurity, Psychology, Toxic Friends, Love, Living News
Susan Shapiro Barash

These aren't our mothers' friendships, where women were hesitant to disclose unhappiness or weakness. Female friendships today are filled with expectations -- the sense that "we're all in it together."

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2010 Prediction: Women Will Have Another Horrible Decade

Peter Daou | Posted 12.22.2009 | World

Read More: Health Care Reform, Sexual Violence, Women's Rights, Women, Rape, Gender, Congo Rape, Congo, World News
Peter Daou

As we hurtle into a new decade, one thing you can be sure of (aside from death and taxes) is that women's rights and women's bodies will be violated again and again.

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Child Care: A Worker And A Mother

Sheila Lirio Marcelo | Posted 12.21.2009 | Living

Read More: Women, Caregiving, Child Care, Women's Issues, Career Advice, Women Entrepreneurs, Careers, Venture Capital, Entrepreneurship, Advice, Investors, Parenting, Amy Winehouse, Living News
Sheila Lirio Marcelo

I know my responsibility of being a good mom does affect my work. How couldn't it? Recent studies show the average family experiences five "child care crises" each year that cause parents to miss work.

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What's Under Your Burka, Barbie?

Mona Eltahawy | Posted 12.21.2009 | World

Read More: France, Lingerie, Muslim, Sarkozy, Women, Barbie, Saudi Arabia, Burka, Niqab, World News
Mona Eltahawy

Who needs Ken when Burka Barbie can have Angry Bearded Muslim Man as her companion? (I want my share of royalties for that idea).

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Exclusive: The Aga Khan, Women and Development: The Path of Education

Rahim Kanani | Posted 12.21.2009 | Impact

Read More: Women's Rights, Women, Clinton Global Initiative, Education, International Development, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Aga Khan, Aga Khan Development Network, World Economic Forum, Philanthropy, Strategic Philanthropy, Impact News
Rahim Kanani

As development agencies integrate their efforts to reduce the massive inequalities plaguing women and girls worldwide, we must never forget the value of human dignity, and the power of education to dignify.

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Feminomics: Women Reformers Motivated by a No Tolerance Rule

Nomi Prins | Posted 12.18.2009 | Business

Read More: Women, Financial Crisis, Women in Business, Wall Street, Business News
Nomi Prins

For the most systemically compromising and expensive breaches of corporate ethics, it has been women who have fought against the barrier of male nonsense to shine a light.

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Health Insurance Age Rating Equals Corporate Welfare

Natale Zimmer | Posted 12.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Women, Older Women, Aging, Health Care Reform, Health Insurance, Discrimination, Medicare, Health Care, Politics News
Natale Zimmer

Age discrimination in the form of age rating, the practice of allowing private insurers to charge people higher premiums solely based on age, is wrong. And Congress is buying the false argument.

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Sex & Chocolate

Rosalyn Hoffman | Posted 12.17.2009 | Style

Read More: Style News, Chocolate, Women, Sex and Chocolate, Baking, Sex, Tiger Woods, Living, The Balanced Life, Style News
Rosalyn Hoffman

We have loads of little secrets -- most of which we will never share. But today we've decided to disclose one. Even though it may be a black mark on our reputation as normal bitches who like to self-medicate.

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Hands Off Our Social Security

Ashley B. Carson | Posted 12.17.2009 | Impact

Read More: Women, Aging, Older Women, Social Security, Federal Budget Deficit, Pay Equity, Survivor Benefits, Kent Conrad, Retirement, Judd Gregg, Medicare, Older Women's League, Owl, Impact News
Ashley B. Carson

If Social Security were a private company, its shareholders would be very pleased, as it ran a surplus of $180 billion last year and accumulated a reserve of $2.4 trillion. This is the only government program to run a surplus.

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Four Women Who Inspire Action and Conscience in Copenhagen

Frances Beinecke | Posted 12.17.2009 | Green

Read More: Maya Lin, Redd, Women, Jane Goodall, Copenhagen 2009, Rainforest, cop15, Climate Change, Women and Politics, Gro Harlem Brundtland, Deforestation, Global Warming, Jessy Tolkan, Green News
Frances Beinecke

With the international climate talks drawing representatives from 192 nations and attracting more than 110 world leaders, there are a lot of impressive people gathering in Copenhagen.

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And Now a List of Films by ... Men

Philip N. Cohen | Posted 12.16.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Female Directors, Women, Top 10 List, Movies, Gender, Entertainment News
Philip N. Cohen

On receiving her lifetime achievement award at the Women in Film and Television Awards, Dame Helen Mirren paused to comment on sexism in the film industry.

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A Startling Reminder of Gender Bias

Tim Berry | Posted 12.16.2009 | Technology

Read More: Gender Equality, Copyblogger, Gender Stereotypes, Blogging, Women, Women in Business, Men WIth Pens, Technology News
Tim Berry

On the Internet, the world of George Eliot and George Sand, women novelists with men's pen names, is still around.

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The Nobel Prize for Balance

Rosalyn Hoffman | Posted 12.15.2009 | Style

Read More: Women, Obama, Fashion, Style News, Budget, Nobel, Economy, Style News
Rosalyn Hoffman

Being on a budget isn't about chaste saving. It's all about impulse control and editing. Skipping the last minute mediocre dinners out in order to save for a fabulous feast.

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Twenty-Something Men Want Babies, Study Says

Laura Stepp | Posted 12.15.2009 | Living

Read More: Women, Relationships, Conception, Men, Pregnancy, Twenty-Something Advice, Parenting, Babies, Family, Living News
Laura Stepp

In a nationally representative survey of 18-29-year-olds, men were as likely as women to say that if circumstances allowed it, they would love to have a baby right now. We're not talking small numbers here.

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VA Treating More Women, Younger Patients, 'Not The Old Guys Group Anymore'

AP | KIMBERLY HEFLING | Posted 12.15.2009 | Home

Read More: Va, VA Patients, Women, Veterans, Veterans Affairs, Hospital, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Home News

MARTINSBURG, W.Va. — Doctors at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in this quiet, bucolic town tucked between coal country and the nation's cap...

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When Menstruation Means Inequality

Halle Tecco | Posted 12.14.2009 | Living

Read More: Rwanda, Women, Developing World, Women's Issues, Women's Health, Health, Africa, Non-Profits, Sustainability, Living News
Halle Tecco

For millions of women in the developing world, menstruation is a nightmare. With a dearth of feminine product options, women turn to rags, mud, and even tree bark to physically conceal the situation.

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Time To Make U.S. Foreign Assistance Work -- for Women and Men

Ritu Sharma | Posted 12.14.2009 | World

Read More: Usaid, Women, Foreign Aid, Poverty, President Obama, Global Poverty, Foreign Assistance, Gender, Rajiv Shah, World News
Ritu Sharma

Despite so much hard work, Betilde remains one of the billion people in the world struggling to survive on less than a dollar a day. The majority of the bottom billion, about 829 million, are women.

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Watching a Good Friend Make Bad Decisions

Dr. Irene S. Levine | Posted 12.13.2009 | Living

Read More: Friend, The Friendship Doctor, Women, Bad Decisions, Low Self-Esteem, Relationships, Friends With Benefits, Advice, Irene S. Levine, Friendship, Stuck, Friendship Expert, Boyfriend, Female, Used, Breaking Living News, Living News
Dr. Irene S. Levine

My friend broke up with her first serious boyfriend about a year ago. She still spends most of her time with him and his family but they all take advantage of her. Is there something that can help her see what's going on?

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Women Dominate Short Story Writing

The Guardian | Sarah Crown | Posted 12.11.2009 | Books

Read More: Short Stories, Helen Simpson, Women Writers, Grace Paley, Mavis Gallant, Women, Lorrie Moore, Literary Prizes, Short Story Writers, Authors, Katherine Mansfield, Books, Alice Munro, Reading, Books News

Given that 2009 looks set to live in literary memory as the year that brought us Dan Brown's "The Lost Symbol", Jordan: "Pushed to the Limit" and "Pri...

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Obama Can Help the World's Women

Rahim Kanani | Posted 12.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Hilary Clinton, Women's Rights, Women, Human Rights, Violence Against Women, National Security, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, United Nations, President Obama, Nobel Peace Prize, United States, Somalia, Iraq, Politics News
Rahim Kanani

In accepting the Nobel, Obama must spearhead a bold and unprecedented initiative aimed at one of the most pervasive human rights violations of the 21st century: violence against women and girls worldwide.

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From Girls to Women: Struggling with the Dilemma of Naughty or Nice

Stacey Radin | Posted 12.11.2009 | Living

Read More: Girls, Women, Work Life, Girls Inc, Good Girl Phenomenon, Living News
Stacey Radin

Girls and women are repeatedly told that they have so many opportunities that did not exist decades ago. Girls can now engage in competitive sports, run their own companies, and aspire to be a CEO.

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Birth Control, Water, And Women

Susan Kim | Posted 12.10.2009 | Living

Read More: Environment, The Pill, Menstruation, Women's Health, Susan Kim, Women, Health, Water, Public Health, Contraception, Water Supply, Condoms, Living News
Susan Kim

Thanks in large part to a decade of nearly nonexistent enforcement, tens of millions of men, women and children now routinely drink, bathe in and cook with tap water laced with illegal levels of contaminants.

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Stupak-Pitts Vs. Bubble Boy

Leslie Goldman | Posted 12.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Rights, Abortion, Pitts, Women, Amendement, Nelson, Planned Parenthood, Hatch, Stupak, Politics News
Leslie Goldman

More than one in every three women will have had an abortion by the age 45. If the Stupak amendment becomes law, it one day may not even be our choice to pay for an abortion with our own insurance.

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