"philadelphia-force" Articles & Blogs:
Obama meets Phillies, What about National Pro Fastpitch?
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On Friday, President Obama met the Philadelphia Phillies in Washington, DC. As a former resident of the Philadelphia area, I certainly found this intriguing and exciting.
However, I couldn’t help myself from asking… when’s the last time a President...[Read on] |
Rosie O: Comic Book Female Force
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Blue Water’s comic series “Female Force” is featuring the comic book biography of Rosie O’Donnell and all her kick ass endeavors as a comedian, talk show host, actress, and activist. Blue Water launched this series in 2009, in prai...[Read on] |
Women Are the Labor Force, Where is Our Political Force?
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By WCF Fellow Trish
A study released today, The Shriver Report: A Woman’s Nation Changes Everything, focuses on a national landmark: for the first time in the history of the United States,...
This is a content summary only. Visit Women and Politi...[Read on] |
Palin, Clinton Comic Sell Out
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Bluewater Productions can hardly believe that their ‘Female Force’ series has done so wellPalin, Clinton Comics | Today 1:00 pm
Sarah Palin is hugely popular among comic-book readers.
Bluewater Productions, a graphic-novel company, yeste...[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] |
PUMA launches Project Pink
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On the heels of the biggest soccer event in the world (do you remember a little tournament in South Africa this summer called the World Cup?), sports brand PUMA is excited to announce a new initiative that links women’s soccer with a well-deserving caus...[Read on] |
The Right Side of History
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by Fatima Goss Graves, Vice President for Education and Employment, National Women's Law Center
I had the pleasure of attending the White House Middle Class Task Force event, where the Equal Pay Enforcement Task Force presented its recommendation to hel...[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] |
How Long Does it Take to Eat, Pray, and Love? (And 24 Other Urgent Questions)
| Julia Roberts stars in this weekend’s estrogen-fueled answer to The Expendables, Eat Pray Love. Can the star power of Roberts, who plays a new divorcee on a yearlong jaunt around the world, defeat the brute force of Sylvester Stallone, Bruce Willis, and...[Read on] |
Queen Rania's New United Nations Position
| Kate Middleton, the longtime girlfriend of Prince William, second in line to the British throne, was caught on video at the Online Marketing Show, in London. She was attending the two-day event on behalf of her parents' party-supplies company, Party Piece...[Read on] |
Are We Paying Attention to the Wrong Gun-Toting Mama Grizzly?
| Though many political observers may be bewitched, bothered, and bewildered by Christine O’Donnell, Sarah Palin, and Sharron Angle, respectively, most are unaware of the formidable political force that is Kristi Noem, a Republican candidate for Congress ...[Read on] |
New Rules for Jobless Benefits Boon for Many Women
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(WOMENSENEWS)--Women account for 7 out of 10 workers who leave jobs because of loss of child care, relocation of a spouse or other work-family conflicts, according to recent research by the New York-based National Employment Law Project.
In the majority ...[Read on] |
2010 Women’s Professional Soccer Draft
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The Women’s Professional Soccer draft takes place next week, on January 15th in Philadelphia at the NSCAA National Convention.
The folks at WPS have done a great job keeping fans in the loop and as we countdown to the big day, they’ve polled a number...[Read on] |
Pondering the Chick Flick
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Please check out my latest piece for the Women’s Media Center: Pondering the Chick Flick
Most women, including feminists, have a love/hate relationship with the chick flick. A mere mention of the term can send you into a lather bemoaning the disparage...[Read on] |
Disturbing Video of Girls’ Dance
| I became aware of this video, via a friend’s post on Facebook (thanks EH). It is a video of girls who appear to be between the ages of 8-10 years of age, dancing to Beyonce’s “Put A Ring On It”. Despite the face these girls are great dance...[Read on] |
Women more likely to be discharged for Don't Ask, Don't Tell
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With yesterday's National Equality March and President Obama's promise (again) to end Don't Ask, Don't Tell (the speech transcript was released last night), we missed the story last week about government stats showing that women are more likely than men t...[Read on] |
Waity Katie No More: Kate Middleton and Prince William to Wed in 2011
| After a rather lengthy courtship that began when the two were students at St. Andrews college, Prince William and Kate Middleton are engaged to be married. According to a statement by William’s father, Prince Charles, the marriage will take place next s...[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] |
Los Angeles Sol of WPS to fold
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Goodbye Sol. We hardly knew ya. After attending most of the home games at the Home Depot Center, and watching some great soccer, it is with huge sadness we learn that the Los Angeles Sol folded today. The notice comes after one season, despite the sta...[Read on] |
Gearing up for the WPS Draft
| As yu may know, I’m the Web Coordinator at Women’s Professional Soccer – So I wanted to give quick update here from my department at the league office. First off, the 2010 WPS Draft will be held on Friday, January 15th at 10am in Philadelphia, PA, i...[Read on] |
Every Wall Glares Like a Glass Ceiling: Mad Men Season 4, Episode 4
| At lunch Sunday afternoon at Becco with Elvis Mitchell and Kim Benabib, the conversation turned to Mad Men, as conversations tend to do these days. Regarding Don Draper’s California interludes, when Don visits the widow of the real Don Draper (whose ide...[Read on] |
Are Americans Too Stupid to Survive the Recession?
| This is no time to hoard nuts.Imagine that you are the bill-payer in a household that, like many in America, has run up a sizable debt over the past 10 years, even though things were going well for you for most of that time. Now you’re in a predicam...[Read on] |
Women at the Box Office This Weekend
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There are a several movies opening this weekend in limited release and both American Violet and Lemon Tree open wider.
American Violet opens in Boston; Philadelphia; San Francisco; Houston; Austin and Seattle. Here’s my interview with Regina Kelly wh...[Read on] |
Mel Greenberg says goodbye to the Inquirer but not to women’s basketball
| Twitpic from @jtannenwald: Farewell party for @womhoopsguru
He is known as the Guru. He is a walking encyclopedia of women’s basketball history, mostly because he witnessed, chronicled and helped shape it for four decades.
I first met Mel Greenber...[Read on] |
TV Alert- Trouble the Water Premieres on HBO
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Trouble the Water, the Oscar-nominated documentary directed by Tia Lessin and Carl Deal about Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath premieres tonight on HBO at 8:30pm. It is a must see.
Here’s an excerpt from my write-up from last summer when the film ...[Read on] |
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