"katherine-gallagher-robbins" Articles & Blogs:
Catching Up With Single Mothers
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by Katherine Gallagher Robbins, Senior Policy Analyst, National Women's Law Center
In today's NY Times Bob Herbert highlights the increasing economic anxiety American families are facing. New analysis shows that economic security, the knowledge that yo...[Read on] |
Take a Knee: Teen Girls Talk B-Ball, Leadership, Life
| By Laura Pappano
Because we can all benefit from hearing serious young female athlete voices, we connected with three talented basketball players who just finished nine days at the summer academy run by the non-profit SportsChallenge Leadership & Edu...[Read on] |
Women at the Top
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Nancy Utley has been promoted to the presidency of Fox Searchlight Pictures. She shares the title with Stephen Giula. Utley has been making Fox Searchlight quite hot of late as the COO overseeing marketing and distribution of movies like Juno to the t...[Read on] |
HBO developing show for Laura Dern
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HBO seems to be on a great track. Based on her Golden Globe winning and Emmy nominated performance as Katherine Harris in Recount, HBO wanted to get into the series business with Dern. But she wanted to wait for the right vehicle
Enter Mike White (Ye...[Read on] |
Roe v. Wade – What’s in a Name?
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By Lauren Robbins, Intern for Health and Reproductive RightsNational Women’s Law Center
This past Halloween I saw a woman on the street carrying what looked like an oversized paddle and rowing her way down 14th Street, sans boat and, for that matter, w...[Read on] |
Protect yourself from identity theft and win!
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In a recent ChickSpeak article, Katherine Chen discussed how to protect yourself from identity theft. While its something most chicks don’t think about on a regular basis, learning to be proactive and smart can pay off.
After all, there are some things...[Read on] |
Amelia & Motherhood
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It’s opening day for Amelia and Motherhood.
I am out of town today at a meeting so here are truncated reviews of both films. I will have an interview with Katherine Dieckmann writer and director of Motherhood next week.
Amelia Earhart is one of thos...[Read on] |
Girl-Powered Chicago Film Festival
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</object> The 45th Annual Chicago International Film Festival kicks off today, and this year, organize...[Read on] |
Women & Hollywood on the Radio
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Here’s the link to the radio show from this morning where we talked about women’s box office successes of 2009, can a woman get a best director nomination and win, and had a great conversation with Nell Scovell, Theresa Rebeck and Katherine Dieckmann ...[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] |
Pale male fail – Who makes the most in Hollywood
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Vanity Fair has put together a list of Hollywood’s highest film earners and not surprisingly, at the top of the list are all white men. The highest female on the list is Emma Watson who made $30 million for the latest Harry Potter films. ($15 million ...[Read on] |
What’s up with the cupcake craze?
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If the Muffin Man really does live on Drury Lane, he has some stiff competition just around the corner. I recently discovered this rivalry as I was strolling through trendy Covent Garden, London in search of a quaint British café for High Tea. What I ...[Read on] |
Art & Thought: Tutankhamun’s Funeral
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We had been friends since elementary school, and we could not have been more different. Even in the first grade, she was considered fashion forward with her sparkly pink t-shirts, pigtails, and leather pants. She held the most parties out of all the other...[Read on] |
The world’s most powerful celebrities are women
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Forbes has published another one of its lists this time the world’s most powerful celebrities. Since it’s a celebrity list and is (as they say) “a measure of power based on money and fame,” I’m not surprised that women dominate the top of the ...[Read on] |
Autobiograhy of Red: A Verse Novel
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Today, we have only fragments of Stesichorus’ original masterpiece, Song of Geryon, which tells the story of Herakles’ Tenth Labor and the death of the red-winged monster, Geryon. In Autobiography of Red, Anne Carson retells the myth with a modern twi...[Read on] |
Art & Thought Special Edition: Silk & Bamboo
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On the first floor of the Egyptian Art galleries, there is a small exhibition featuring 60 musical objects and illustrations. I feel, as I enter “Silk and Bamboo”, that I am walking through an ancient tomb where all the artifacts of the past have been...[Read on] |
If you’re a chick who dares to dream big, add these to your list
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Though few would argue that women have made significant progress in the last fifty years, most would agree that the playing field has yet to be entirely leveled when it comes to promotions, job opportunities, and high-profile projects.
Despite the fact t...[Read on] |
Seven hot vampires to sink your teeth into
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Thanks to a little movie called Twilight, vampires have become a bigger pop culture phenomenon than ever before. But Edward Cullen isn’t the only good looking vampire on the scene. There were many others before him who were equally attractive and powerf...[Read on] |
Women Directors respond to Kathryn Bigelow’s Oscar Nomination
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The last time a woman was nominated for a best director Oscar was in 2003 before blogs and way before Women & Hollywood.
I wanted to take the opportunity to hear the voices of women directors themselves as to what Kathryn Bigelow’s nomination means to ...[Read on] |
Female jockey Julie Krone is a “Freak”
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I was delighted to read that award-winning filmmaker Katherine Brooks (”Loving Annabelle,” 2006, and “Waking Madison,” 2009) is making a film based on legendary female jockey Julie Krone. The film is called “Freak,” which refers to a racing...[Read on] |
Go healthy with your office lunch
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Around 1:30 p.m. in the afternoon, half the office spills out onto the streets, dispersing into local delis, cafés, and restaurants. The other half remains indoors, sitting obediently at their desks within the confines of small cubicles. This scenario m...[Read on] |
How to build a fabulous relationship with a mentor
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Finding a mentor is not always as easy as it appears to be. As children, we look to our teachers, parents, and trusted relatives for guidance and support. We might remember asking our mothers to mend a torn sleeve, a request which transforms in minutes in...[Read on] |
From Harm to Home: The Perfect Mother’s Day Present
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A bouquet of flowers. A box of chocolates. A one-day gift certificate to the spa. These are the Mother’s Day presents we are accustomed to seeing advertised in glossy catalogues and in shop windows.
As commercialized as this holiday has become, few wou...[Read on] |
ChickSpeak remembers Rue McClanahan
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A southern belle to the core, Blanche Devereaux lit up television screens around the world for nearly a decade with her beauty, fiery sexuality, and attitude. As one of the four original Golden Girls, Blanche embodied qualities, which were clearly lacking...[Read on] |
Spotlight on Shoshanna: Designer celebrating a woman’s life through style
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There are not many items that are universal to every woman. Because we come in all different shapes, sizes and backgrounds, it’s difficult to pinpoint one distinct style or look to compliment every lady.
However, some items are absolutely necessary for...[Read on] |
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