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Poor Women in California Can Expect a Lump of Coal From the Government This Holiday Season

Pedro Nava | Posted 12.18.2009 | Los Angeles

Read More: Legislative Women's Caucus, Women's Issues, Breast Cancer Screenings, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, Every Women Counts Program, Obama Administration, Breast Cancer, California Legislature, Breast Cancer Awareness, California, Governor Schwarzenegger, Cancer Registry, Women and Politics, Women's Health, US Preventive Services Task Force, Breast Cancer Prevention, Healthcare, California Department of Public Health, Los Angeles News
Pedro Nava

Schwarzenegger and the California Department of Public Health have embraced the holiday season with a new set of proposed rules that will abandon low-income women.

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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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GOP Purity Test: Republican Party's Version of the Longest Suicide Note in History

Kara Vallow | Posted 12.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Mark Foley, Womens Rights, Ronald Reagan, John Ensign, David Vitter, Republican Purity Test, Women and Politics, Gop Purity Resolution, Gop, Purity Balls, Larry Craig, Defense of Marriage Act, Gop Purity Test, Politics News
Kara Vallow

You can tell the sun is setting on a once-great political party when it starts issuing angry, demonizing mission statements that seem deliberately devised to alienate as many moderate voters as possible.

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Stupak-Pitts Goes Beyond Status Quo

Rep. Lois Capps | Posted 11.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Abortion, Capps Amendment, Women's Rights, Lois Capps, Women's Health, Abortion Rights, Stupak Amendment, Health Care Reform, Women and Politics, Stupak Abortion Amendment, Politics News
Rep. Lois Capps

We must not allow abortion opponents to use our health care reform process to drastically restrict a woman's access to a legal medical procedure, and that's exactly what the Stupak amendment does.

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Communicating with 'A Woman's Nation'

Amy Gershkoff | Posted 11.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Elections, Women's Issues, 2010 Elections, A Woman's Nation, The Shriver Report, Women Voters, Campaign Ads, Working Women, Women and Politics, Maria Shriver, Politics News
Amy Gershkoff

How should political campaigns communicate with working women? They are an electorate that is increasingly difficult to reach, but upon which all elections now hinge.

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Virtual Exhibit Economica Spurs Discussion of Women's Global Earning Potential

Emily Goligoski | Posted 11.17.2009 | Impact

Read More: U.S. Economy, Global Economy, Economica, Earning Potential, The-International-Museum-of-Women, Economic Crisis, The International Museum of Women, Women Entrepreneurs, Working Women, Women and Politics, Women in Business, Healthcare, Impact News
Emily Goligoski

The International Museum of Women exhibit Economica manages to humanize the impact of policymakers' and institutional decisions by inviting women to tell their stories themselves.

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Mercy Corps, Nicholas Kristof Encourage Book Clubs To Fundraise And Get Active

Posted 10.29.2009 | Impact

Read More: Women's Rights, Half the Sky, Women's Issues, World Hunger, Women's Health, Books, Women and Politics, Nicholas Kristof, Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, Book Clubs, Mercy Corps, Impact News

Nicholas Kristof and his wife and co-author Sheryl WuDunn take on the cause of female inequality in their new book Half The Sky. They argue that signi...

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31 Reasons to Mind the Gender Gap

Susan Sawyers | Posted 11.02.2009 | World

Read More: Girls, Leadership, Politics, Women, Gender Gap, Education, Empowerment, Women and Politics, United States, Global Gender Gap Report, World Economic Forum, Saadia Zahidi, Laura Tyson, Ricardo Hausmann, Cherie Blair, Women's Funding Network, World News
Susan Sawyers

When it comes to the gender gap, the United States is in a bad spot. Out of 134 countries, our democratic nation comes in 31st place.

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A Daringly Stylish Politician!

Tove Hermanson | Posted 10.18.2009 | Style

Read More: Women and Politics, Ukraine, Fashion History, Fashion/Apparel, Political Style, Style, Yulia Tymoshenko, Style News
Tove Hermanson

I love that Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko incorporates the traditional folksy milkmaid plaited braid, juxtaposed with her otherwise very modern sartorial sensibility, with nods to history.

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Breaking the News

Reporters Uncensored | Posted 10.15.2009 | Media

Read More: Women and Politics, Women's Health, Media News
Reporters Uncensored

By Matt Ferrero Starting this week, Reporters Uncensored TV will be launching a new series on social innovators. We will be bringing to your attent...

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Videocracy: An Interview with Erik Gandini

Nina Burleigh | Posted 10.06.2009 | World

Read More: Women and Politics, Television, Fox News, Italy, Silvio Berlusconi, Rome, Berlusconi Protest, World News
Nina Burleigh

Waving banners scrawled with "Berlusconi is bad for Italy's health," more than a hundred thousand people rallied to protest for a free press in Italy over the weekend.

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What Do Muslim Women Want?

Naomi Wolf | Posted 10.05.2009 | World

Read More: Religion, Women, Queen Rania, Muslim Women, Women's Issues, Women and Politics, Muslims, Naomi Wolf, Muslim Womens Rights, Muslim, World News
Naomi Wolf

The Muslim women leaders I've spoken to do not say, "Please tell the West to save us." They are too busy making egalitarian, modernist new worlds of their own, with an Arab, and often Islamic, imprimatur.

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The Violence is Horrifying, Let's Do Something About It

Ritu Sharma | Posted 12.01.2009 | World

Read More: Women and Politics, Foriegn Policy, Women's Rights, Hillary Clinton, Violence Against Women, World News
Ritu Sharma

Violence against women is one of the most compelling causes of our time. New legislation in Congress could make battling that violence a U.S. foreign policy priority.

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No Democrats! No Chocolate!

Susan L. Travis | Posted 11.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Women and Politics, Politics, Ruidoso, Democracy, Discrimination, Oktoberfest, Chocolate, Politics News
Susan L. Travis

In the New Mexico village of Ruidoso, a conflict between the local chapter of the Democratic Women and the annual Oktoberfest organizers is brewing.

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This Week, Let's Recognize the Women Who Are On Their Own

Page Gardner | Posted 11.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Women and Politics, Unmarried Women Voters, Unmarried and Single Americans Week, Women and Work, Unmarried Women, Politics News
Page Gardner

Too many unmarried women are struggling to support themselves in the worst economy in a quarter century -- and about 10 million are single moms with young children at home.

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The Ugly Truth: Poverty in America

Irasema Garza | Posted 11.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Welfare, Women, Welfare System, Single Mothers, Poverty, Women's Issues, Welfare Reform, TANF Program, Temporary Assistance to Needy Families, Women and Politics, Tanf, Working Moms, Politics News
Irasema Garza

As bleak as the poverty figures appear, the Census Bureau's numbers likely underestimate the depth and scale of the problem. Given the scale of the problem facing us, we must address the structural issues that frustrate our efforts to help poor Americans.

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Women's Rights: All We Take for Granted

Maria Rodale | Posted 10.19.2009 | Living

Read More: Women and Politics, Women's Rights, Violence Against Women, Women's Issues, New York Times, Nicholas Kristof, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Living News
Maria Rodale

When Hollywood finally learns how to make good romance movies, we might just finally free women around the world, and create the kind of world where peace is a possibility.

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Do Successful Politicians Have More Daughters?

Auren Hoffman | Posted 09.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Women and Politics, Politics News, Presidential Election, Politics News
Auren Hoffman

Maybe politicians with daughters are better at empathizing with the people.

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The Invisible Face of Immigration

Irasema Garza | Posted 08.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Immigration Reform, Women, Labor, Undocumented Immigrants, Women's Issues, Sexual-Violence, Illegal Immigrants, Women and Politics, Immigrant Workers, Sexual Assault, Female-Immigrants, Female Migrants, Women Immigrants, Politics News
Irasema Garza

Women immigrants are facing impossible choices daily: put up with abuse, or sacrifice their only life line to economic security for themselves and their families.

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Hey, Sarah Palin, Quit Stealing My HuffPost Blogs

Diane Tucker | Posted 08.26.2009 | Media

Read More: Politics, Sarah Palin Speech, Sarah Palin Resignation, Sarah Palin Debate, Sarah Palin, Women and Politics, Iran Live Blogging, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, Alaska, Diane Tucker, Ice Hockey, Sarah Palin Reaction, Iran Blog, Vice President, Republican Convention, Sarah Palin Media Attacks, Media News
Diane Tucker

Heads up, Ms. Palin, because a Web site with your name on it is stealing my blog content: so it's gloves off, "Maverick."

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Motherhood: Is It Ever Too Late?

Jacob M. Appel | Posted 08.15.2009 | Living

Read More: Medical Ethics, Women's Rights, Women, Late Motherhood, Women's Issues, Personal Health, Motherhood, Parenting, Ivf, Women's Health, Health, Women and Politics, Living, Bioethics, Medicine, Health Care, Living News
Jacob M. Appel

Births to women in their late fifties and early sixties are no longer international news. Whether they are empowering or irresponsible has been a matter of ongoing debate.

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Iranians Worldwide Roll Out Green Scroll Against Ahmadinejad (SLIDESHOW, UPDATES)

Diane Tucker | Posted 08.19.2009 | World

Read More: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Cn Tower, Iran Election, Vaclav Havel, Iran, Velvet Revolution, Radio Free Europe, Diane Tucker, Iran Protests 2009, Green Scroll Movement, Dubai, Eiffel Tower, Shah of Iran, Slideshow, Toronto, Portland, Zurich, Stockholm, Hamburg, austinforiran.org, portlandstandswithiran.org, Antone's, India, Germany, Canada, Switzerland, Sweden, Alfred Hitchcock, Women and Politics, Wall for Peace, Ali-Akbar-Hashemi-Rafsanjani, France, Paris, World News
Diane Tucker

Updates, and video screen grabs from the ceremony in Paris, follow the post. AUSTIN, TX -- When a reporter asked Vaclav Havel to comment on Iran's p...

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Athena Crossing the Potomac

Rachel Natelson | Posted 08.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Sikh, Women's Rights, Department of Veterans Affairs, US Military, Military Sexual Trauma, Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, Violence Against Women, Sexual Assault, Veterans, Emergency Contraception, Gays in the Military, Don't Ask Don't Tell, Iraq Veterans, Homeless Veterans, Homelessness, Military Sexual Assaults, Women and Politics, Politics News
Rachel Natelson

Many figures have decried the inequity of "Don't Ask Don't Tell," the president and Congress to repeal the law. However, one community has remained resolutely silent: national veterans service organizations.

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A Woman's Place, in Lebanon

Nadya Khalife | Posted 08.01.2009 | World

Read More: Women, Switzerland, Hezbollah Lebanon, Lebanon, Grassroots, Free Patriotic Movement, Women and Politics, Sunni, Hezbollah, Christians, Shia, Muslim, World News
Nadya Khalife

Lebanese women won the right to vote in national elections 19 years before women in Switzerland. Yet political participation by Lebanese women remains dismal at the national level.

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Stoning Soraya, Murdering Neda, and the Hope of Muslim Women

Sumbul Ali-Karamali | Posted 07.30.2009 | World

Read More: Islam, Politics, Religion, Iran, Islamic Republic of Iran, Islamic Law, Iran Election, The Stoning of Soraya M, Women and Politics, Religion and Politics, Muslim, Neda, Movies, New Movies, World News
Sumbul Ali-Karamali

No wonder, given stories like Soraya's and Neda's, that people worldwide assume Islam is oppressive of women.

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