"judy-waxman" Articles & Blogs:
Ladies first – Women’s Health Amendment Vote Coming Soon
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by Judy Waxman, Vice President for Health and Reproductive Rights, National Women's Law Center
You know what they say — ladies first.
The Senate has finally begun debating the historic health care reform bill. The first amendment offered is the Women...[Read on] |
Show Senator Kyl Maternity Care is Good for All Boy and Girls
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by Judy Waxman, Vice President for Health and Reproductive Rights, National Women's Law Center “First of all, I don’t need maternity care. And so requiring that to be in my insurance policy is something that I don’t need and will make the policy...[Read on] |
Women Are People Too ... Right?
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by Judy Waxman, Vice President for Health and Reproductive Rights, National Women's Law Center
Since the beginning of the health care reform debate, it seems every Member of Congress has adopted the mantra, “People shouldn’t lose coverage under heal...[Read on] |
What Happens If Stupak Wins? Watch the Video
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by Judy Waxman, Vice President for Health and Reproductive Rights, National Women's Law Center
The health care battle isn’t over yet. And anti-choice Members of Congress are hard at work as we speak.
As Congressional leaders work to iron out differ...[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] |
Tell Your Members of Congress We Need Real Health Care Reform
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by Judy Waxman, Vice President for Health and Reproductive Rights, National Women's Law Center
Have you seen them yet? Opponents of real reform are mobilizing and stepping up their efforts to block comprehensive health care reform. They're also presen...[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] |
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] |
Happy 10th Birthday Mamma Mia
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L-R: Writer Catherine Johnson, Director Phyllida Lloyd, Producer Judy Craymer
celebrated its 10th anniversary in London this week. What I love about this show is that the same women who worked on the show did the film and that they really respect an...[Read on] |
The voice of a studio head- Amy Pascal talks to The Wrap
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It’s not very often that you get to hear, really hear, a studio chief’s take on the business. Sharon Waxman, founder and editor-in-chief of The Wrap got Amy Pascal to answer some questions and talk about the state of the movies. It’s also good...[Read on] |
Women Came to Play, Men Walk Away
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Jill Miller Zimon is one of WCF’s MsRepresentation bloggers in the final weeks of the 2010 election.
Reports now are confirming that debates to be hosted by Gwen Ifill and Judy Woodruff (both from...
This is a content summary only. Visit Women and Pol...[Read on] |
The Award Season: The Status of Women
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Last week there were two pieces written about women and the awards season. The first from Sharon Waxman in the Wrap lamented the fact that films that star women are being crowded out of the best picture field (like that’s news?); and the second ...[Read on] |
Bette Midler talks women and funny
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I can’t think of the last time I saw a movie starring Bette Midler that wasn’t on a basic cable station. I remember a time when she was everywhere. Guess its been over a decade now since her last good movie which I feel is The First Wives Club....[Read on] |
5 Good Reasons to Put a Witch in the Senate
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Christine O’Donnell may have dabbled in witchcraft – but is that any reason to keep her out of Congress?JudyBachrach | Today 3:45 pm
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Unlike W’s former chief adviser, Karl Rove, who thinks that senatorial candidate Christine O’...[Read on] |
Hollywood’s Top Earning Women
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Forbes has put together its first ever list on the top earning Hollywood women, and not surprisingly to me, half the top earners are over 40.
(PS this list is different from the list of highest earning women celebrities which came out earlier)
The list:...[Read on] |
Margaret Cho drops a bomb
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(AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
Here’s a doozy. Leave it to Jessica Wakeman via the frisky to get some juicy news. This time in a conversation she had with Margaret Cho, Margaret started talking about women comedians and how straight women are less succe...[Read on] |
A Woman on the Croisette: Julie Bertuccelli’s Film The Tree to close Cannes
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The Cannes Film Festival has woken up from it’s ridiculousness — they still do not get a pass on the fact that there are no female filmmakers in the competition — and have announced the Australian film The Tree written and directed by Julie Bertucce...[Read on] |
Women dominate top of the Forbes celebrity list
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Two African American women — Oprah and Beyonce — are the two top celebrities according to Forbes. Awesome. They are followed by James Cameron who made a pot of money off Avatar and Lady Gaga who has had a serious breakout year. Other women in ...[Read on] |
The Most Powerful Women in Hollywood
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In conjunction with its Women in Entertainment breakfast, The Hollywood Reporter has published its annual list of the most powerful women in Hollywood. My thoughts are that the list is pretty much the same from last year especially in the top 10 with a c...[Read on] |
Jan Chapman – The woman behind so many great films
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Jane Campion and Jan Chapman
One of my longtime obsessions has been finding Australian films, especially those directed by women. It began almost 20 years ago when I first saw My Brilliant Career and I was blown away. Thinking back now seeing that mo...[Read on] |
A Chick’s Guide to Summer Movies
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When I’m at school, I’m stuck in the bubble. For my first few months of freshmen year, I even forgot that new movies came out - sad, I know. It’s gotten a little bit better, but I still never see new movies unless I’m on vacation - and I barely ...[Read on] |
Toronto Announces Docs to Screen at Festival
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The Toronto Film Festival has announced 25 documentaries that will screen at this year’s festival.
While I won’t pretend that this site or any other has influence on the decisions that are made on what films to screen, I couldn’t help but smile w...[Read on] |
Cultural Chick: Three Must-See Female-Inspired Museums
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As an art historian, I am passionate about the woman artist and her place in art historical discourse. So this week I present three museums in the United States that have changed the way women are included, and represented in the art world as artists, cur...[Read on] |
The Most Powerful Women in Hollywood according to Nikki Finke
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Tonight in Hollywood Elle Magazine will host the annual salute to women in Hollywood. I am looking forward to the day when we don’t need to highlight women because they will have as much power as men, but in reality, women are nowhere near as powerful...[Read on] |
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