Editor’s Note: Huffington Post’s Senior Politics Editor, Katy Hall, has a very provocative piece on “lies Republicans tell about Women’s bodies,” which she claims are either promoted by Republican lawmakers pushing for pro-life legislation and/or come from GOP presidential candidates and their spokespeople and surrogates. Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) apologized Tuesday to Rep. Carolyn Maloney [...]
Editor’s Note: This post was written by Pat Mitchell, President & CEO of The Paley Center for Media. It originally ran here and is being reprinted at Women.com with permission. Speaking of real women’s lives, one question perhaps trumps all others that we are asking right now: In a globalized, media-saturated world, are we as [...]
Editor’s Note: Great video of Meryl Streep introducing Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at the Women in the World Summit which ran March 10-12 in New York City. The Daily Beast’s third annual conference showcased the stories of some of the world’s most fearless and thought-leading women including Clinton, Leymah Gbowee, Madeleine Albright, Christine Lagarde, [...]
I don’t generally go around saying how proud I am to be a Minnesotan, especially after the Jesse years, but today I’m positively bursting my buttons over a group of knitters from my very own home town of St. Paul. Lead by Annie Modesitt (you betcha!), this group of middle-aged, mild-mannered, hotdish-loving Minnesota women founded [...]
Editor’s Note: Washington Post reports on the decision by Dr. LaSalle D. Leffall, Jr. to step down as Chairman of the Susan G. Komen foundation. The Howard University surgeon explained the move as due to numerous other responsibilities, however there’s evidence suggesting this is an effort by Leffall to distance himself from the cancer charity [...]
They say everything’s big in Texas, but they may want to look again this week, as the budget for women’s healthcare has been slashed to pieces. This was not an angst-filled legislative move to offset sinking revenues. The money – available through Federal Medicaid funding – is sitting there waiting for them, with their name on [...]
Wendy Wecksell, Director of Partnerships for Pencils of Promise (PoP), recently returned from her first trip to Guatemala. While there, she was able to indulge in a new culture and witness the 51% of PoP’s mission of increasing access to education in the developing world. There are certain things in life you just know. It is [...]
