"female-rider" Articles & Blogs:
Just Ride: International Female Ride Day celebrates fifth year on May 6th
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This year International Female Ride Day celebrates its fifth year of women riders getting on their motorcycles to JUST RIDE. With four years of history bringing awareness for women riders, the force created and expected for the fifth year of this glob...[Read on] |
Rebecca Woods: Balancing Act
| Rebecca Woods is one of Australia's most stylish and consistent professional surfers. Emerging from the Central Coast of New South Whales, she is now a dangerous and valuable competitor on the ASP Women’s World Tour. Rebecca is also one of a handful of ...[Read on] |
Do you love sports? Are you a member of Blogher?
| Did you know that 94% of girls in U.S. play sports?
Unfortunately, there is a lack of female athletes being represented in mass media and that is the cultural image of female athletes being absorbed by the majority of young girls who choose to play.
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You know you are a REAL female rider if…
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You’ve broke a nail on your clutch or front brake
Your perfume smells like eau de exhaust
You have specific riding shoes so you don’t have shifter marks on your cute ones
Your helmet has makeup on the inside of it
You take the “windswept” hair lo...[Read on] |
Wheel Action: May is National Bike Month
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Despite what recent chilly temperatures (at least in LA) may be telling us, spring really is on its way! Today is the start of National Bike Month so we thought we’d bring you some new bikes and cycling accessories to get you and your family read...[Read on] |
Cannes Can’t – Where are the Women Directors?
| So the Cannes lineup in finalized and the abysmal showing for female directors is now set in stone. The festival added two more films to the competition lineup and not surprisingly, both were by men. That’s now 18 films competing for the Palme D’O...[Read on] |
Iraq Trains Female Cops; HIV Top Threat to Women
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(WOMENSENEWS)--
Cheers
In Iraq, 50 women became the first female graduates Nov. 9 of the country's police officer training academy, The New York Times reported.
"Everyone says men are able to do everything, but that's not true," First Lieut...[Read on] |
Sexism & Horse Racing: The Preakness
| I’m watching the pre-race coverage of the Preakness horse race right now on NBC. I’ve been following the media coverage of this race all week. Drama and debate rage on “should fillies race with stallions” due to the recent success of filly Rachel...[Read on] |
Criminal Minds cuts female cast members
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This should be filed in the are you fucking stupid category.
CBS has decided to make the bone headed decision to completely fire one female cast member AJ Cook. who played JJ the agent who handled the press, and cut back the episodes of Paget Brewster ...[Read on] |
BleacherReport List: Most Bootylicious Female Athletes
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I am not kidding, a picture-list of female athletes' asses.
If ever there were reason to type "SMH", now is definitely the time.
Here we go, people. The time has finally arrived for one of the most talked about slideshows in the history of this web...[Read on] |
Zero Progress Made on Gender Disparity in Films Targeted at Kids
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Some bad news from the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media.
They released a new study: Gender Disparity On Screen and Behind the Camera in Family Films, done by Stacy L. Smith, PhD and Marc Choueiti, at the USC Annenberg School for Communication...[Read on] |
Disney Swears off Princesses
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In a move that should have progressive minded parents across the country and the world cheering, Disney last week said that they would no longer be producing fairy tale movies, and folks that means no more princess movies.
No more big pink dresses, no ...[Read on] |
Hollywood Feminist of the Day: Lauren Tracy
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Lauren is a 21-year-old young director and has started a film fund for female filmmakers called X-Factor Filmmakers. Her next step is to launch a contest: The Best Female Directed Picture where you can win a netflix subscription to make people aware o...[Read on] |
Film Gender Gap: More stats on women working behind the scenes in film
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Dr. Martha Lauzen at San Diego State University has for the first time drilled deeper into women’s representation on films looking into the numbers of women production designers, production managers/production supervisors, sound designers, supervising s...[Read on] |
Hatch Amendments Defeated, But Women's Health Still Hanging in the Balance
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by Judy Waxman, Vice President for Health and Reproductive Rights, National Women's Law Center
We, and women across the United States, are holding our breaths this month waiting to see what kind of health care bill comes out of the Senate Finance Co...[Read on] |
Status of Female Farmers Rises During Food Crisis
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(WOMENSENEWS)--The women who grow more than half the world's agricultural produce have gained international recognition and aid since the start of the global food crisis in 2007.
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Critique of March Madness Sports Illustrated Cover
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Sports Illustrated 2010 March Madness Cover
I love March Madness. Every year I wait for the March Madness cover of Sports Illustrated. Every year I do a critique of the cover. Now that I have a blog, I can post the critique for the first time as ...[Read on] |
Female Celebrities Warp Our View of Real Women
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(WOMENSENEWS)--Are celebrity stories the new narrative of American life? Have the people we see on reality shows and "Entertainment Tonight" replaced characters created by novelists and filmmakers as the lives we most relate to?
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Gadhafi's Revolutionary Nuns: An All-Female Team of Bodyguards Protects the Libyan Leader
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In the wake of the unrest/civil war/revolution in Libya, a lot of media attention has been paid to the eccentricities of their four-decade long leader and tyrant, Moammar Gadhafi. He’s been getting a lot of media attention for his wacky ways, his bi...[Read on] |
Media coverage of Serena Williams' outburst emphasizes gender norms
| Serena Williams, in her outburst at the U.S. Open, stepped outside the box of what is considered acceptable behavior for female athletes, according to the most recent report from the John Curley Center for Sports Journalism. We analyzed article from both ...[Read on] |
Saudi Women Arrested for DWF - Driving While Female
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"We did not break the law. We were not driving on the road,” one Saudi woman said after being arrested for practicing her driving skills. Today five women were arrested for driving in three cars in an empty lot in the Hettein district in...[Read on] |
Iran OKs Female for Games; Vancouver Fails T-Test
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(WOMENSENEWS)--
Cheers
For the first time in Winter Olympics history, an Iranian woman will compete for her country, reported CNN on Feb. 10. Marjan Kalhor, 21, will head the Iranian team in Vancouver, Canada, as the Olympics kicked off Feb. 12.
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AP nominates two horses for "Female Athlete of the Year"
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It's the end of the year, aka the merry season of top ten lists. The Associated Press recently published the vote tallies for its Female Athlete of the Year, in which 158 sports editors around the country weigh in on which of these ten female athletes des...[Read on] |
The commodification of female empowerment
| Have daughters supplanted sons as the repository of hope in tough economic times?
New York Times contributor Peggy Orenstein has noticed a trend across a whole range of sectors over the last several months from big-box stores to high-end fashion to wirel...[Read on] |
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