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What is Work? Gail Collins: When Everything Changed

Sharon Glassman | Posted 11.03.2009 | Books

The women in When Everything Changed are gutsy, goal-setting, game-changing, God-chatting, family-loving individuals who share a belief in Change - and an enduring, if irrational love of sexy shoes.

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When Everything Changed, by Gail Collins

Elaine Showalter | Posted 10.29.2009 | Books

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Collins uses her great sense of revealing anecdotes, engaging personalities, representative case histories, resonant stories, and startling details to defamiliarize a decade we thought we remembered.

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Helping Gloria Steinem Celebrate Her 75th Birthday

Kate Kelly | Posted 10.27.2009 | Politics

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Steinem was humble, displayed a wonderful sense of humor, and showed a strong dedication to continuing her work for social change. "Hope is a form of planning," she said.

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Equality: Past, Present and Future

Rep. Carolyn Maloney | Posted 10.20.2009 | New York

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Of the 211 statues in our nation's Capitol, only 11 are of female leaders. This is not because great women didn't exist. It is simply the case that we can do a great deal better in telling the whole story.

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National Women's History Museum Needs A Permanent Site

Huffington Post | Jonathan Daniel Harris | Posted 10.14.2009 | Impact

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The National Women's History Museum was founded in 1996 to rectify what was seen as underrepresentation of females in history books and museums across...

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As Women's Leadership Evolves, So Do We

Fawn Germer | Posted 10.13.2009 | Living

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I was 17 years old and a guppy reporter for The Bradenton Herald when my editor sent me on my first assignment in the field. "You're going to interview Gloria Steinem," she told me.

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No Women Featured in NY Comedy Festival! No Joke!

Beverly Wettenstein | Posted 10.15.2009 | Entertainment

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The Primetime Emmy Awards showed that women writers on a comedy or variety series are a rare and endangered species. Only seven of the 81 writers were women.

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