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Creating Gender Equality In The 21st Century

Susan Smalley, Ph.D. | Posted 11.06.2009 | Living

Read More: Equality, Women's Movement, Human Rights, Congo, Gender Inequality, Slavery, Women's Rights, Living News
Susan Smalley, Ph.D.

Nichlas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn's recent book "Half the Sky" is a call of awakening for all men and women to take action and right the wrongs existing in the world today because of gender inequality.

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Nancy Spero Dead: Feminist Artist Dies At 83 In NYC

AP | Posted 10.21.2009 | New York

Read More: Nancy Spero, Artist, Feminist Artist, Women's Movement, Nancy Spero Dies, Nancy Spero Dead, New York News

NEW YORK — Feminist artist Nancy Spero, whose works have been included in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of ...

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The 2012 Presidential Race According to Numerologist Cheryl Lee Terry...

Tess Ghilaga | Posted 10.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Cheryl Lee Terry, Political Predictions, Predictions, Women's Movement, Numerologist, Obama, Obama Election, Astrologer, Woman President, Women's Rights, Politics News
Tess Ghilaga

Cheryl Lee predicts that in this decade, women will regain their power and take their rightful place in society.

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As Women's Leadership Evolves, So Do We

Fawn Germer | Posted 10.13.2009 | Living

Read More: Corporate Women, Women's Leadership, Corporate-Women, Women's Movement, Women's Issues, Women's History, Working Women, Women in Business, Leadership Issues, Career Advice for Women, Women's Leadership Issues, Women's Leadership Conference, Living News
Fawn Germer

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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How Nobodies Can Be Somebodies (FAQs re: The Dignity Movement against Rankism)

Robert Fuller | Posted 10.07.2009 | Living

Read More: Nobodies, Civil Rights Movement, Dignitarian, Dignity, Sexism, Racism, Women's Movement, Barbarah Ehrenreich, Rank, Somebodies, Rankism, Living News
Robert Fuller

We won't be able to confront rankism until we overcome our fear of seeming uppity by using the word in public.

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A False Divide Between Head and Heart: What I Learned From Robert McNamara

Marie Wilson | Posted 08.07.2009 | Home

Read More: Leadership, Women, Womens-Movement, Vietnam, Masculinity, Robert McNamara, Culture, Home News
Marie Wilson

McNamara once said: "I try to separate human emotion from the larger issue of human welfare." This was his false divide between head and heart, buoyed by the codes of masculinity.

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Where is the Outrage by Feminists on Letterman's Sexist Remarks About Palin?

Joan E. Dowlin | Posted 07.12.2009 | Media

Read More: The View, Hillary Clinton, Feminists, Sarah Palin, Sexism, David Letterman, The Late Show With David Letterman, Women's Movement, Sarah Palin Scandal, David Letterman Sarah Palin, Bristol Palin, Media News
Joan E. Dowlin

Palin's positions on many women's issues are the polar opposite of most feminists. Is that a reason to vilify her in the press?

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Morocco: A Look At Women's Rights 5 Years After Reforms

GlobalPost | Erik German | Posted 07.10.2009 | World

Read More: Women's Rights in Morocco, Morocco, Africa, Paradise Beneath Her Feet: Women and Reform in the Middle East, Women's Movement, Iranian Feminists, Democratic League for Women's Rights, Moroccan Feminists, Feminism, Morocco's Democratic League for Women's Rights, Women's Rights, World News

RABAT, Morocco -- In the lottery of arranged marriage, winners and losers sometimes take years to reveal themselves. But one soft-spoken woman seat...

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My Great-Grandmother's Flapper Fashion: A Celebration In Pictures

Frances Osborne | Posted 07.01.2009 | Style

Read More: The Bolter, Women's Movement, Slideshow, Idina Sackville, Style News
Frances Osborne

My great-grandmother Idina Sackville was known as The Bolter because, in 1918, she left her young, handsome and extremely rich husband to run off (bol...

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How My Great-Grandmother Inspired Me to Write The Bolter

Frances Osborne | Posted 06.25.2009 | Style

Read More: Literature, Womens-Movement, Women, Women's Suffrage, Womens Rights, Heritage, Style News
Frances Osborne

My mother's grandmother, Idina Sackville, broke every one of the Edwardian social rules designed to restrain women a hundred years ago.

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Workplace Bullying: Are Women Their Own Worst Enemies?

Abby L. Ferber | Posted 06.15.2009 | Business

Read More: Women's Movement, Workplace, Mickey Meece, Gender Inequality, Sisterhood, Bullying in the Workplace, Bullying, New York Times, Bullies, Feminism, Harassment, Gender, Business News
Abby L. Ferber

Assumptions about gender end up distorting the reality of bullying in the workplace, all too often suggesting that women themselves are undermining feminism's goal of advancement for women.

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Mother's Day Reminds Me of the Pill

Rachel Farris | Posted 06.11.2009 | Living

Read More: Abortion, Womens Rights, The Pill, Gynecology, Abstinence Only, Women's Health, Mother's Day, Reproductive Rights, Reproductive Health, Abstinence Education, Contraception, Women's Movement, Millennial Generation, Generation Y, Living News
Rachel Farris

Those little white hormones packed in foil aren't the controlled substance here: women are. And if anyone tells you differently, ask them why you can buy condoms and cigarettes in a 7-Eleven.

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If Religion Is Power, Women Deserve Their Share

Deepak Chopra | Posted 11.22.2008 | Living

Read More: Women's Empowerment, Religion, Women, Christianity, Women's Movement, Empowerment, Sarah Palin, Deepak Chopra, Living News
Deepak Chopra

Without a second blush, millions of believers want God to make them more affluent, successful, and influential.

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Peaceful Revolution: A Magical Moment for the 21st Century Women's Movement

Joan Blades | Posted 07.26.2008 | Living

Read More: Women's Rights, Women's Movement, Diversity, Living News
Joan Blades

We don't have to agree about everything; we do need to focus on our core shared vision of mothers and families thriving in our country.

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A Feminist Focus Includes Everybody

Shireen Mitchell and Adele M. Stan | Posted 06.19.2008 | Politics

Read More: Womens Movement, Feminist, Don Imus, Women and Politics, Linda Hirshman, Washington Post, Don Imus Hillary Clinton, Hillary Clinton Feminism, Feminism, Politics News
Shireen Mitchell and Adele M. Stan

According to Linda Hirshman, we feminists are just too darned concerned about things like civil rights, war and peace, and the fate of the planet. Her evidence that feminism is a failure: Hillary didn't win.

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Little Women: A Sad, Sad Story of Stereotypes

Linda Hansen | Posted 06.14.2008 | Home

Read More: Sexism, Feminism, Women's Movement, Concession, Hillary Clinton, Non-Concession Speech, Democratic Nominee, Barack Obama, Hillary Concession, Clinton Concession, Women Hillary, Clinton Obama, Hillary Vapors, Clinton Feminism, Home News
Linda Hansen

I'm sixty years old. I can't recall a time--ever--that any man who lost a close election demanded "time to adjust to the pain of losing" before conceding. Hillary lost a close one and got a case of the vapors.

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Men Explain Things to Me

tomdispatch.com | Rebecca Solnit | Posted 04.23.2008 | Living

Read More: Post-Feminism, Women's Movement, Feminism, Sexism, Living News

I still don't know why Sallie and I bothered to go to that party in the forest slope above Aspen. The people were all older than us and dull in a dist...

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