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Hollywood Feminist of the Day: Fran Drescher
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The star of The Nanny (I’m still waiting for her next sitcom) took her focus on health care and cancer (she is a uterine cancer survivor) to Capitol Hill yesterday to get Senators on board of the Safe Cosmetics Act of 2010. The bill will eliminate c...[Read on] |
Child Care and Family Leave Essential for Working Women
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by Karen Schulman, Senior Policy Analyst, National Women's Law Center
Two recent articles in the Wall Street Journal and in The Economist highlight the expanded participation of women in the workforce—the proportion of the workforce accounted for b...[Read on] |
Superheroines Get Mammograms, Too
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Marvel just made one bizarre, unexpected decision in merging with the Walt Disney Company. But the comic book super troop recently made another bizarre, unexpected decision–except this one is actually kind of cool.
In July, Marvel released Divas, a...[Read on] |
Blogs With Balls: Female sports community ignored, again
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If you’re familiar with the mammoth multi-billion dollar male sports blogging scene, you’ve probably heard of A.J. Daulerio of Deadspin, Spencer Hall of The Sporting Blog or Dan Kellyand of the Bleacher Report.
Chances are, if you know these guys, ...[Read on] |
The Academy Awards nominees luncheon
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Yesterday, 121 Oscar nominees gathered to celebrate themselves and get their marching order for the show (speeches can only be 45 seconds.)
Anne Thompson has a report from the event.
How fun would it have been to be in that room where Tom Sherak the hea...[Read on] |
New Resources on Women's Poverty and Health Insurance
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by Joan Entmacher, Vice President for Family Economic Security, and Judy Waxman, Vice President for Health and Reproductive Rights, National Women's Law Center
More than one in eight women and nearly one in five children lived in poverty in the Unite...[Read on] |
RNC insurance plan covers abortion for their employees
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For those of you who haven't already heard, let me repeat that: the Republican National Committee (RNC) has a health insurance plan for their employees that covers abortion. Now, this shouldn't even be surprising, despite my out-loud laugh half in amazeme...[Read on] |
Brands look to parents watching TV with their kids
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Marketers are ready to pounces on moms! More moms are watching children's programing -- with -- their children. And...marketers see an opening.
Nickelodeon, Disney and Time Warner's Cartoon Network are the big beneficiaries, but smal...[Read on] |
Write a post for Women’s History Month
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The month of March marks a global celebration of women’s talents, achievements and contributions to society. Every year, since the United Nations proclaimed March 8th International Women’s Day in 1977, organizations around the world host a variety ...[Read on] |
Write a post for Women’s History Month
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The month of March marks a global celebration of women’s talents, achievements and contributions to society. Every year, since the United Nations proclaimed March 8th International Women’s Day in 1977, organizations around the world host a variety ...[Read on] |
David vs. Goliath: NCAA one step closer to its champion
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As of last night, there are now two teams left in the greatest basketball tournament of the year: University of Connecticut Huskies and the Louisville Cardinals.
Yesterday, UConn seemed to easily handle Stanford, winning 83-64, and Louisville squeaked by...[Read on] |
Another magazine another photoshopped woman
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Seriously, why do magazines think that we won’t notice? Or are they truly going with the “a photo is just the beginning of our art project” theory? Becuase if photos are just an art project for them, then just fucking say it.
This time ...[Read on] |
Women's Poverty Increases; Insurance Decreases
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by Joan Entmacher, Vice President for Family Economic Security,
and Judy Waxman, Vice President for Health and Reproductive Rights,
National Women's Law Center
Imagine being a single mother to a 5-year-old daughter, losing a stable job, and becom...[Read on] |
The Proposal tops Sex and the City
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This kind of snuck up on me. The Sandra Bullock film The Proposal has now surpassed Sex and the City in its domestic gross. Sex and the City earned almost $153 million and this week The Proposal passed $155 million and its still going.
Interesting.
I ...[Read on] |
Hillary says she won't run for president again
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Yesterday, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said that she would not run for president again.
"This is a great job," Clinton said in the [NBC] interview broadcast Monday. "It is a 24-7 job. And I am looking forward to retirement at some point."
...Cl...[Read on] |
Dear So and So: My Blog
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Dear Tipsyreader.com,
I haven’t had my morning cup o’ joe yet, so this could get ugly.
Sometimes I wish this were one of those blogs where I could write about my life at least a little bit. But there are two things wrong with this picture. One is ...[Read on] |
Dearth of Female Support for GOP
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The GOP falls 22 points behind the Democrats in terms of women’s allegiancePost | Today 9:50 am
The Republican Party needs to find a way to attract more women, because a recent Gallup Poll shows that only 27% of women identify as Republican. Meanw...[Read on] |
Meghan McCain: Republican Party Has to Become More Gay Friendly
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Young blogger seemingly has no qualms about taking her party to task on
traditionally taboo topics; new gay Republican group launches this weekMeghan McCain on Gay Republicans | Today 1:25 pm
Meghan McCain makes no apologies for being a Republican and p...[Read on] |
Congratulations Justice Kagan
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by Rachel Peck, Fellow, National Women's Law Center
It's official! Elena Kagan is now an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court. She was sworn in on Saturday by Chief Justice John Roberts and becomes the fourth woman to have ever served ...[Read on] |
The finalists for Lisbeth
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Thompson on Hollywood has a report that there are five finalists for the role of Lisbeth Salander and they are all pretty much unknown. Sorry, no Carey Mulligan or Ellen Page.
Daniel Craig is still the first choice for Mikael Blomkvist but they are st...[Read on] |
Karl Rove Expresses Doubt That Sarah Palin Is Electable (Again)
| • Karl Rove told the U.K.’s Daily Telegraph that he doesn’t think Sarah Palin is presidential material, because she doesn’t have the “gravitas” that the American people demand. She also probably doesn’t know what gravitas means, but that’s...[Read on] |
Ruth Bader Ginsburg Still Going Strong on Court, but Gets Blasted From Right
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Conservative blogs peeved over Supreme Court justice saying it’s OK to apply foreign law to U.S. Constitution, courts; Ginsburg says it’s not right she’s the only woman on benchSupreme Court, Ruth Bader Ginsburg | Today 10:40 am
Suprem...[Read on] |
Meghan McCain Blasts Ann Coulter: 'I Find Her Offensive'
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John McCain’s daughter Meghan doesn’t have many kind words for conservative commentator Ann CoulterPost | Today 3:05 pm
The increasingly outspoken Meghan McCain has turned her attention away from matters of the heart and toward another light...[Read on] |
Activists Split on White House's Women's Council
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While some lauded the new White House Council on Women and Girls, others had hoped President Obama would have gone furtherWomen's Council | Today 10:10 am
President Obama made headlines yesterday when he established the White House Council on Women and ...[Read on] |
Clinton: U.S. Seeking Two-State Solution for Israel, Palestine
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Secretary of state indirectly says Hamas shouldn’t expect to get any cash; shakes hands with Syrian official after years of no U.S.-Syria contactPost | Today 11:45 am
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Hillary Clinton entered Middle East politics with a splash Monday —...[Read on] |
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