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Women and War

War Redefined is the capstone of a 5-part series on public television. Many interviews are available on the PBS website as transcripts or podcasts. Interviews with female Secretaries of State and others “reveal how the post-Cold War proliferation of small arms has changed the landscape of war, with women becoming primary targets and suffering unprecedented

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Self Promotion Can Backfire in the Workplace

Self Promotion Backfires To get a raise you need to self-promote, but self-promoting women may experience backlash in the workplace. What can I do to keep my self-promotion from backfiring? The website W2Wlink.com has some answers. “The characteristics we associate with success, including confidence and competitiveness, are seen as stereotypically masculine. Characteristics that are seen

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Avoid gender stereotypes in Halloween costumes

What kind of Halloween costumes will you put on your kids this year? What will you wear yourself? What messages will these costumes say about girls and women’s roles, and about men’s relationships to women? It’s worth thinking about! Missrepresentation.org is a growing movement to change the way women and portrayed in the media and

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How can I recruit new members?

How to Recruit New Board Members Before you begin some bizarre recruitment ritual, realize you are facing a common problem. You’re having trouble filling your board positions, a few people are doing most of the work, and the steady workers are in danger of burning out. We often hear this statement in organization meetings, usually

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Achieve Healthiest, Most Love-Filled Life

I recently spoke to health and life quality guru Nancy Deville. She is an amazing woman in the height of her powers and beauty. She offered a simple blueprint any woman can follow to achieve better health and happiness. Say something good to yourself. Too often we are masters at putting ourselves down, and Nancy

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Change How Women are Portrayed in the Media

How can I use my power to change women’s image in the media? Our media denigrate even the most powerful women in our country such as Hilary Clinton, Condoleezza Rice, Sarah Palin and Nancy Pelosi. Commentators focus on whether they had plastic surgery, what they wear, and how old they look. What chance does an

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How to Get Members Excited About Your Group

I would  like to  get members excited about my chapter or organization Cynthia D’Amour, founder of the Chapter Leaders Playground, posted a webinar 10-7-2011. During the webinar she polled listeners and found that 93% wanted some help increasing enthusiasm for their group. Only 7% said that all their members are totally excited about their group.

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Three Women Activists Win Nobel Peace Prize

OSLO, Norway (AP) — The 2011 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded  today to three women: Africa’s first democratically elected female president, a Liberian campaigner against rape and a woman who stood up to Yemen’s autocratic regime. The award recognizes the importance of women’s rights in the spread of global peace. The Nobel website says the

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