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Suzanne Braun Levine: Why Post 50 Women Are More Beautiful Than They Think

2013-05-24T06:23:49Z

Will we never achieve acceptance of our real physical selves as they are in present time? This question becomes increasingly urgent as we age. Whereas when we were younger, you had to be on LSD, as one friend puts it, to notice the minuscule flaws we found so fatal, nowadays for the women I write about, the sags and wrinkles are real...

Read more: Women's Empowerment, Feminism, Older Women, Women, Women's Health, Health, Women Over Fifty Women, Baby Boomers, Beauty, Video, Fifty News

Alison Schneider: Where There's Dirt, There's Life

2013-05-23T18:35:56Z

People want to connect with food again and care about making food for themselves and the people they love.

Read more: Women's Empowerment, Healthy Food, Farming, Home Cooking, Women's Rights, Consumerism, Home Economics, Sustainable Food, Cooking, Food Politics, Sustainability, Taste News

Monique Ruffin: Moms Change the World: Kenya Stevens

2013-05-23T18:35:01Z

Kenya Steven is a mama who is reclaiming and re-defining the feminine woman. Her ability to be true to herself is contagious.

Read more: Ricki Lake, Women's Empowerment, Sexual Freedom, Dr. Phil, Love & Sex, Love and Relationships, Working Mothers, Motherhood, Impact News

Serra Sippel: Time to Bridge the Gap for Women's Health

2013-05-23T16:40:01Z

With the post-2015 development goals due to the UN Secretary-General at the end of the month, Women Deliver 2013 will be a rallying call to ensure that women and girls -- and their rights and health -- are central to the future of global development.

Read more: Women's Health, Women's Rights, Reproductive Rights, Reproductive Health, Family Planning, Global Motherhood, Impact News

Anti-Abortion Leader Compares Rape And Incest To Accidents

2013-05-23T14:35:07Z

The head of a pro-life group in Michigan made a controversial comparison on Wednesday, arguing that women in the state should be forced to pay extra f...

Read more: Abortion, Women's Rights, Video, Women's Health, Abortion Rights, Governor Rick Snyder, Pro-Life, Pro-Choice, Michigan, Rick Snyder, Politics News

Bianca Kofman: The Importance of Women Mentors

2013-05-23T12:36:56Z

We can all relate somewhere in our lives to feeling empowered as women, to having an instrumental woman in our lives help us along our journey.

Read more: Women's Empowerment, Women's Issues, Raiseforwomen, Giving Back, Impact News

Nancy Northup: An Open Letter to President Obama

2013-05-22T17:06:01Z

There is perhaps no other fundamental right that is under more ferocious attack than the right of reproductive choice -- and we need you to help us fight back now.

Read more: Abortion, Women, Women's Rights, Constitutional Rights, Women's Health, Roe v. Wade, Reproductive Rights, Draw the Line, Center for Reproductive Rights, Contraception, Reproductive Health, Health Care, Barack Obama, Politics News

Doug Cox M.D.: Oklahoma Legislature's Wrong Priorities During Crisis

2013-05-22T16:44:43Z

I can't be silent when -- at a time of need for care, empathy, and community -- my colleagues in the Oklahoma state legislature are using the last days of session to further restrict Oklahoma women's access to health care.

Read more: Oklahoma Planned Parenthood, Oklahoma Tornado, Planned Parenthood Funding, Oklahoma Tornado 2013, Oklahoma, Planned Parenthood, Women's Rights, Women's Health, Health Care, Politics News

BRAC: Change From the Very, Very Bottom Up

2013-05-22T15:11:32Z

You may have heard of multinational corporations, such as Unilever, seeking to target the so-called 'bottom of the pyramid', providing goods and services to the $5 trillion market comprising the poorest 4 billion people in the world.

Read more: Women's Empowerment, Raise for Women, Women, Poverty, Hygiene, Health, Entrepreneurship, Sanitation, Impact News

Madeleine M. Kunin: Equal Pay for Women Translates Into a Bigger Paycheck for Families

2013-05-22T09:31:37Z

Vermont, once again, is leading the country. A similar bill, called the Paycheck Fairness Act, is languishing in the Congress. How did we do it in Vermont? We worked together.

Read more: Equality, Women, Families, Women's Issues, Madeleine M. Kunin, Equal Pay, Gender Pay Gap, Equal Pay Law, Vermont Equal Pay, Politics News

Jessica Hendricks: Born Brave

2013-05-21T12:05:21Z

Inspired by the courage of these amazing Cambodian people, most of them women, I decided to bring their bravery back to the states by sharing their stories, and actualizing my own.

Read more: Women's Empowerment, Cambodia, Half the Sky Movement, Raiseforwomen, Fair Trade, Artisans, Brave Collection, Impact News

Eddie Kuspiel: Remembering Your Mom Is a Human

2013-05-21T11:37:33Z

Right then and there my hormone-infested, self-absorbed, juvenile brain realized: My mother's sole purpose in life was not to accommodate mine, but that she in fact, had one of her own.

Read more: Raiseforwomen, Motherhood, Women, Women's Issues, Helping Women, Mothers, Impact News

James Dorsey: Soccer Emerges as Focal Point of Dissent in Saudi Arabia

2013-05-20T15:24:27Z

Soccer is emerging as a focal point of dissent in Saudi Arabia, an oil-rich kingdom that despite banning demonstrations by law is struggling to fend off the waves of change sweeping the Middle East and North Africa.

Read more: Arab World, Saudi Women, Women's Rights, Women, Sports, Arab Spring, Saudi Arabia, Soccer, Saudi Arabia Human Rights, World News

Vicki Abelson: No Job, No Man, No Sleep

2013-05-20T13:37:51Z

Being single again at this stage of my life doesn't thrill me, but that's not what's keeping the sandman at bay.

Read more: Problem Earners, Women Who Write, Jobless, Faith, Solutions, Creative Solutions, Divorce, Full-Time Mom, Sleep Problems, Fifty News, Women's Sleep Problems, Mid Life Crisis Women, Hope, Money Problems, Job Hunting, Starting-Over, Fear, Women's Issues, Mid-Life Crisis, Unemployed, Sleepless, Fifty News

Terry O'Neill: Student Loan Debt -- It's Worse for Women

2013-05-20T11:12:23Z

How bad is the wage gap for women in the workplace? For college graduates, it's so bad that it begins even before women begin their careers.

Read more: Aauw, Elizabeth Warren, Women's Issues, Pay Equity, Student Loan Debt, Student Loans, Politics News

Octavia Sheepshanks: Man-Hating Feminism More Than Just A Myth

2013-05-19T19:00:00Z

When some of the most commendable feminists I know are men, this is a pretty confusing statement to be making. If we isolate roughly half of the population from the movement, what can we hope to achieve?

Read more: Women, Women's Rights, Twitter, Women's Issues, University of Cambridge, Feminist, Man Hating, Male Feminists, Man-Hating, Feminists, Myths, Feminism, Cambridge University, UK Universities & Education News

Law Protecting Afghanistan Women Blocked By Conservatives

2013-05-18T08:19:54Z

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Conservative religious lawmakers in Afghanistan blocked legislation on Saturday aimed at strengthening provisions for women's fr...

Read more: Afghanistan Women's Rights, Women's Rights, Women's Rights Afghanistan, Afghanistan Women, Afghanistan, Afghanistan War, World News

Michelle Brané: Women Are a Critical Part of Immigration Reform: Let's Include Them This Time

2013-05-17T18:25:59Z

As the bill moves through committee and onto the Senate floor, the rights and well-being of immigrant women will depend on Senators keeping women -- and women's realities -- in mind.

Read more: Women, Women's Rights, Immigration Reform, Senate, Immigration, Politics News

Iram Ganju: We Don't See Things as They Are, We See Them as We Are

2013-05-17T12:41:04Z

Heck, I was born and raised in Pakistan. To some, that's reason enough to be afraid, but I accept that in a post 9/11 America, my country conjures up all kinds of misconceptions and contradictions. To be fair though, what country is without them?

Read more: Becoming-Fearless, Women's Rights, Peshawar, Murree, Pakistan, Western, East Meets West, Patriarchy, Impact News

Karin Kamp: Time's 100 Most Influential 2013: Afghani Entrepreneur Roya Mahboob

2013-05-17T10:32:09Z

When Roya Mahboob found out she was on Time Magazine's list of the 100 most influential people in the world she thought it was a mistake.

Read more: Social Media, Women's Rights, Roya Mahboob, Small Business, The Story Exchange, Afghanistan, Entrepreneurship, Small Business News

Amy S. Chen: Nerds Anonymous

2013-05-16T18:54:50Z

I won't be dismissive and say that people like Tina Fey and Ellen Degeneres are not incredible role models, but celebrities provide a much different type of support than women in STEM or climbing the corporate ladder are able to otherwise provide.

Read more: Women's Empowerment, Girls, Geeks, Fortune 500, Female Empowerment, Empowerment, STEM Education, Anonymous, Nerds, Women in STEM, Girls in Stem, Women News

Marianne Mollmann: Why Is El Salvador Letting a Woman Die?

2013-05-16T17:30:16Z

This past month, the world has been watching a 22-year-old pregnant woman in El Salvador die, little by little. I want to say it is like watching an accident happen in slow motion, but this situation is no accident.

Read more: Catholic Church, El Salvador, Abortion, Amnesty International, Women's Rights, Anencephaly, Human Rights, World News

Irene Lane: How Women Can 'Lean In' to Solve the World's Social, Economic and Environmental Disparities

2013-05-16T14:52:30Z

My question is why should we strive to make everyone equal? Perhaps, instead, women can apply their talents toward making a bigger impact on humanity by 'leaning in' and solving one complex problem, one community at a time.

Read more: Women's Empowerment, Tourism, Leadership, Global Hunger, Global Health, Human Rights, Biodiversity, Global Poverty, Business Leadership, Sheryl Sandberg Lean In, Fair Trade, Impact News

Jill Sheffield: Now Is the Time to Invest in Girls and Women

2013-05-16T13:21:50Z

Investing in the health of girls and women is a solution to every development problem. Focusing on this key issue will alleviate poverty, stabilize societies, spur economies and advance the well-being of families, communities, and ultimately, our world overall.

Read more: U.N. Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), MDG 5, Global Maternal Health, Women Deliver Conference, Maternal Health, Jill Sheffield, Women's Issues, Women Deliver, Malala Yousafzai, Women's Health, Impact News

Shannon Galpin To Speak At Upcoming TEDx Mile High

2013-05-16T11:16:01Z

TEDxMileHigh, the independent local TED event that showcases innovative Coloradans, announced the first batch of speakers for their June 2013 event th...

Read more: Ted Denver, Women's Rights, Best of Denver, Video, Shannon Galpin, Tedx, Denver Impact, Tedx Mile High, Afghanistan, Bicycling, Denver Around Town, National Geographic Humanitarian of the Year, Ted, Afghan Cycles, Denver Culture, Denver News