How many times have you stood in the grocery store line and looked over at the magazine counter and seen all the magazines? All of the women on the covers look sexy and provocative. If you’re like me, you feel odd and start to compare yourself to these fantasy images and you don’t even know
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This week, we finally felt the ground moving. During Tuesday’s national election, the people of the United States took significant steps towards real gender equality. A record number of women now hold seats in the US Senate and House of Representatives. New Hampshire became the first state in American history to elect an all-women delegation
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Do you think the world would have less violence if more women were in charge? A new book, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined , by Harvard University psychologist Steven Pinker, says it would. “Traditional war is a man’s game: tribal women never band together to raid neighboring villages,” he writes in
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Sure, progress is slow. But we’ve got to remember to celebrate our accomplishments and encourage each other. Companies with female CEOs outperform in the stock market! Yes, you’ve heard that before, but we’ve got to hold this up in the light. I’ll say it again: Companies with women CEOs outperform in the stock market! Kim
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Dr. Nancy’s recent guest Anea Bogue quoted Marianne Williamson as saying that you can determine the longevity of a species by the fierceness of their females, because the females protect the babies. By that measure, the human race is in trouble right now, she said. It’s time to gather our strength and protect our young,
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Young women have taken matters into their own hands and scored a victory, according to a exciting post July 4th, 2012 by Emma Stydahar at Spark A Movement. Objecting to the ways women and girls are portrayed in print magazines, organizers gathered nearly 30,000 signatures asking that women and girls be portrayed more realistic. ———
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What gender barriers have you encountered at work? I heard from an associate on Linked In that she did not have gender issues in getting hired to her tech job and has found great women mentors in her field who have provided great mentor-ship. Her college adviser was also a wonderful mentor and is now
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Recent media spin on the popularity of the novel “50 Shades of Grey” suggests that assertive and successful feminists want men to be rough and in charge, (e.g. Newsweek “The Fantasy Life of Working Women: Why Surrender is a Feminist Dream”). Accomplished woman scholar, Dr. Birute Regine disagrees. She says that the book has all
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We’re so used to it we’ve almost stopped noticing it. But although women were making progress in politics for several decades, they are losing ground in a big way! Only 9 out of 109 world leaders (including President, Chancellor, Queen) are women. Women hold just 17% of seats in Congress Women occupy 22% of state
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This election year we’ll hear the usual gnashing of teeth about the lack of good candidates. But it turns out both major political parties have young moms in the pipeline that might very well become presidential candidates in the not-too-distant future. What would that be like? A chief executive who knows from experience that discussions
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