Womens Equality

What the Girls Have to Say

Jennifer Hollett | Posted 05.25.2012

Read More: Women's Rights, Women's Equality, Women Leadership, G(irls)20 2012, Women World Leaders, Female Leaders, G(irls)20, Female World Leaders, g20, Women Leaders, G20 Women, Impact News

Considering the endless list of problems the world faces today, from the economy to the environment, we could really use some new voices, fresh ideas and diverse perspectives.

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Making Policies that Pave the Way

Judy Patrick | Posted 05.01.2012

Read More: Women's Policy Institute, Title IX, STEM Education, Women's Foundation of California, Women's Equality, Women's Rights, Female Athletes, Women Athletes, Los Angeles News

Title IX legislation has been one of the most significant pieces of policy for women in the past 40 years because it has impacted millions of individual girls and women, every education system in the country and the sports industry.

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Israel's Founding Pledge

Nancy K. Kaufman | Posted 04.26.2012

Read More: Israel Independence Day, Women's Empowerment, Women's Equality, Women's Rights, Social Justice, Israel, Agunot, World News

As Israel celebrates its 64th birthday, many pro-Israel women cannot help but wonder what its founders would say about the uproar over the increasing examples of gender segregation on buses and in certain public spaces.

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An Upside to the 'War on Women'?

Karin Kamp | Posted 04.24.2012

Read More: Hilary Rosen, Women's Equality, Women's Rights, Ann Romney, War on Women, Women's Issues, Mommy Wars, Women and Politics, Women Entrepreneurs, Women in Business, Sandra Fluke, The Story Exchange, Video, Women News

Could the 'war on women' be mobilizing a new generation of women leaders? I decided to contact some prominent women to find out. Here's what they told me.

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What Is the Impact of All This Data?

Pat Mitchell | Posted 05.19.2012

Read More: Women's History Month, International Women's Day, World Economic Forum, Women, Women's Rights, Women's Equality, Media News

Experts are analyzing and compiling. Advocates are making the business case for everything from educating girls to having women on corporate boards. I'm left wondering -- to what ends?

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5 Ways To Empower Women And Girls This International Women's Day

Posted 03.08.2012

Read More: Microloans, Women's Empowerment, Say No Unite to End Violence Against Women, Women's Equality, Video, Girlup, United Nations, International Women's Day, Slidepollajax, Kiva, Join Me on the Bridge, Impact News

International Women's Day is not only a celebration of gals all over the world -- it's also a call to action. First celebrated in 1911, Internatio...

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The Key to Global Recovery

Sandra Taylor | Posted 04.11.2012

Read More: Working Women, Women's Equality, Women's Rights, Womens Empowerment, Third Billion, The Third Billion Campaign, Women's Education, Women in Business, Impact News

Women will never realize their potential as "economic engines" if they are subject to abuse at home or can't own or exercise control over property.

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What Does Beyoncé's Recent Birth Tell Us About How Much We Value Mothers?

Clare Winterton | Posted 03.25.2012

Read More: Global Motherhood, Gender Equality, Women's Equality, Fair Wages, Maternity, Beyonce Baby, Women's Health, Motherhood, International Museum of Women, Blue Ivy Carter, Maternal Health, Impact News

Both the global statistics and our new exhibition at the International Museum of Women, MAMA, tell a story that is very different to the glowing and positive picture that surrounds each new celebrity birth.

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Is Occupy Good for Women?

Christine Bork | Posted 03.11.2012

Read More: Occupy Wall Street Women, Occupy Wall Street Feminism, OWS Women, Occupy Wall Street, Women's Equality, Women's Salaries, Female Executives, Gender Wage Gap, Chicago News

If the Occupy movement is a fight for economic equality, it should be fighting for women to earn equal pay for equal work. Occupy says our biggest problem is the growing disparity in wealth. I say women have always faced this disparity.

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Gloria Steinem Talks Women's Progress, Aging Well At TEDxWomen

Posted 12.02.2011

Read More: Paley Center for Media, Aging Gracefully, Women's Equality, Women's Rights, Aging, Video, Women's Vote, Tedxwomen, Amanda Fairbanks, Gloria Steinem, Annie Carroll, Feminism, Huff/Post50 News

Feminist icon Gloria Steinem, author, activist and co-founder of Ms. Magazine, sat down with the Huffington Post’s Amanda Fairbanks in New York to d...

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Occupy This: Create a Lasting Legacy by Passing the Equal Rights Amendment

Barbara Hannah Grufferman | Posted 01.17.2012

The Occupy Movement continues to protest economic inequality. But it's missing an opportunity to create a lasting legacy: to push for the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment.

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Women, War & Peace: Documentary Filmmaking as Activism

Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 01.11.2012

Read More: Alfre Woodward, Wnet, Arts and Activism, Leymah Gbowee, Women's Equality, Pbs, Impact, Colombia, Matt Damon, Liberia, Tilda Swinton, Afro-Colombians, Women War & Peace, Bosnia, Gini Reticker, Fourth World Congress on Women, Impact News, Itvs, Pamela Hogan, 40x50, Hillary Clinton, Afghanistan, Thirteen, Geena Davis, Fork Films, Ladies First, Wide Angle, Abigail E. Disney, Rwanda, Impact News

Melding journalistic reportage and visceral narrative, Women, War & Peace stands as an example of the power of film to ensure that under-recognized subjects become part of the permanent record.

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Hillary Wins Big in 2012

Brent Budowsky | Posted 01.03.2012

Read More: Dorothy Rodhham, Barack Obama, 2012 Election, Realignment, Mitt Romney, Womens Equality, Democratic Values, Democrats, Woman Power, Hillary Clinton, Rick Perry, Republicans, Politics News

In the eyes of voters, Hillary Clinton is the North Star of an America where Democrats act like Democrats and where every woman deserves equal pay, every worker deserves a job and nobody should be left behind.

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The #1 Best Place To Be A Woman

The Huffington Post | Emma Gray | Posted 01.01.2012

Read More: Women's Equality, Worst Countries for Women, Global Gender Gap Rankings 2011, Workplace Equality, Best Countries for Women, Wage Gap by Country, Global Gender Gap Report, Women News

If you've been itching to take a sabbatical overseas, now may be the time to up and move to Iceland. That's right, friends: That not-actually-so-icy i...

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The Girl Effect: How Investing In Girls Is Changing The World

Manisha Thakor | Posted 12.03.2011

Read More: Women's Health, Women's Economic Empowerment, Women's Equality, Women's Isues, Women's Rights, The Girl Effect, Microlending, Women News

What if you have some extra cash and are frustrated with the returns available in savings accounts and cash equivalents. I'd like to suggest... investing in a girl.

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Should Women 'Flaunt It' At Work?

The Daily Beast | Posted 10.29.2011

Read More: Working Woman, Women Work Advancement, Gender Equality, Women's Equality, Women Progression, Equality-Workplace, Career Women, Women Sexuality, Feminism, Women at Work, Women News

It’s not the kind of argument you’d expect from a self-described feminist, and particularly not one who’s made a career of studying the lasting ...

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Sex On Campus: After Class, Skimpy Equality

New York Times | Posted 10.27.2011

Read More: College Women, Sex on Campus, Women's Equality, Women's Rights, Ivy League Schools, Sexual Equality, Top Colleges, College Sex, Women News

AT Duke University last fall, members of the Sigma Nu fraternity e-mailed 300 of their female classmates about an off-campus Halloween party. "Hey Lad...

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From Suffrage To The White House: Remember The Past, Fight For The Future

Elinor Steele | Posted 10.05.2011

Read More: Women's Empowerment, Women's Rights, Women's Equality, Women's Suffrage, First Female President, Female President, Suffrage, Elinor Steele, Chain of Confidence, Women's Education, Tupperware, Sewall-Belmont House, Women News

Do you know the feeling of being in the presence of greatness? I felt surrounded and embraced by that feeling during my recent visit to the Sewall-Belmont House and Museum in Washington, D.C.

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Women Created In The Image Of God

Karen Torjesen | Posted 09.10.2011

Read More: Women's Empowerment, Pentecostal-Church, Women's Equality, Bible Women's Rights, Women's Rights, Women Image of God, Women's Empowerment in the Church, African Christianity, Religion News

The spirituality of the women prophets celebrated women's identity with Christ, their possessing the mind of Christ, and their representing Christ's glory. Women created in the image of God -- here was the Biblical framework for affirming the dignity and value of women.

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Six Degrees Of Charlie Sheen: God, Fame Games & The Global Female

Jennifer Danielle Crumpton | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Piers Morgan, Charlie Sheen, Women's Empowerment, Women, Women's Equality, Gender Equality, The Bible, Sexism in the Media, Two and a Half Men, Gender, Religion News

Girls and women stand to benefit from our collective contemplation on the Sheen machine, the media who propel him, and the info-tainment-cloaked misogynist American ethos that is exported around the planet.

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The Party Is Just Starting for UN Women

Leslie Grossman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Women's Empowerment, Women's Equality, Women's Rights, Women, Women's Healthcare, Un Women, World News

If there is no gender equality here in the U.S., how can we possibly expect it in the rest of the world? Are we the example for the world to follow?

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Sarah Palin's 'Mama Grizzlies' Don't Speak for Women or GOP

Sam Bennett | Posted 05.25.2011

Since 81% of Americans believe that individuals should have control over their own important life decisions, Palin's staunchly anti-choice beliefs are in direct contradiction of the majority of not just her party, but everyone.

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The Women's Deliberation Movement

Shelley Hendrix Reynolds | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Abigail Adams, 19th-Amendment, Sewell-Belmont House and Museum, H. J. Res 61, Carolyn Maloney, Equal Rights Amendment, 19th Amendment, Women's Equality, Judy Biggert, National Women's Party, Mount Holyoke College, Equal-Rights-Amendment, Sojourner Truth, 1848 Women's Congress, Lucretia Mott, 28th Amendment, Era, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, John Adams, Women's Rights Movement, Susan B. Anthony, Sewell-Belmont House, Alice Paul, Women's Liberation, Politics News

In this era, we can no longer afford for deliberation, defined as "leisureliness of movement or action; slowness" to define us as women.

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The Oxymoron of the Sarah Palin "Conservative Feminism" Brand

Sam Bennett | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Women's Rights, Bp, Women Candidates, Reproductive Choice, Feminist, Reproductive Rights, Reproductive Health, Sarah Palin Feminism, Female-Candidates, Feminism, Sarah-Palin-Feminism, Women's Empowerment, Women's Equality, Laura Ingraham, Sarah Palin, Sarah Palin Feminist, Carly Fiorina, Pro-Choice, Politics News

True feminism means giving women choices. Anything else is silly putty feminism -- stretching the word far beyond all meaning and recognition.

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Calling All Females: Wear the Pants on June 11

Helen Cordes | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Sexism, Women's Right's Today, Women's Equality, Women's Rights, Women's Issues, Sexist, Feminism Today, Feminism, Healthy Living News

New Moon Girls wants females to observe "Wear The Pants Day" Friday because girls and women around the world are still forbidden or discouraged from wearing pants.

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