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Women Everywhere Read This: Top Auto Accident Statistics
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According to Online Lawyer Source, vehicular accidents pose a serious threat to the public and auto accident statistics are the leading cause of death for people under the age of 34. Leading cause? This is something serious to consider. For all the moms ...[Read on] |
More Women Earn Bachelor's Degrees Than Men, Study Shows
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Women are 60 percent more likely than men to earn a bachelor's degree by the time they are 23, according to data recently released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.The data, mined from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth of 1997, shows that by ...[Read on] |
Sexism Watch: Steinberg Playwright Awards
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It’s not enough to have clear statistics about how women are discriminated in theatre, but now a new award — The Steinberg Playwright Awards — given to “emerging” playwrights has decided that there is no woman good enough to qualify as emerging....[Read on] |
Women & Hollywood in the Press
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Women & Hollywood is featured in Ellen Snortland’s column in the Pasadena Weekly.
I’ve been a fan of two women in particular who keep track of women and Hollywood. Melissa Silverstein publishes a weekly newsletter, “Women and Hollywood,” and blog...[Read on] |
Celebrating Working Women: March 2011
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Kronos and Xplane created this video in honor of International Women's Day (March 8, 2011). The purpose of the video is to provide viewers with a look at several interesting facts about the changes and developments that have impacted women in the workfo...[Read on] |
Brace Yourself: 40 Percent of Republicans Regularly Watch Fox News
| • From the department of statistics that won’t surprise you, 40 percent of Republicans watch Fox News regularly. [AP] • Resident Evil: Afterlife topped the box office this weekend taking in an estimated $27.7 million. [Variety] • Former House Spea...[Read on] |
Hollywood Writers Report 2009
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It’s no surprise to know that women writers in Hollywood have a tough time getting gigs. It’s always great to have the statistics to back up all the anecdotes. So, here are the abysmal statistics from the 2009 Hollywood Writers Report report done ...[Read on] |
Teen pregnancies on the rise for the first time in over a decade
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Via The Economist, some data about teenage pregnancies in the US:
On one point, however, experts agree: when it comes to teenage births, the United States is backsliding. Between 1991 and 2005 the teenage birth rate declined by 34%, according to the Nati...[Read on] |
America Must Do Better for Mothers in Childbirth, Says Documentarian Christy Turlington
| Ed Burns and Christy Turlington at Vanity Fair’s Tribeca Film Festival dinner, April 20, 2010. Photo via PatrickMcMullan.com. Every minute, a woman dies in childbirth. In total, that’s more than 500,000 women each year—and 90 percent of the time, th...[Read on] |
Guess What? Women buy more movie tickets than men
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You know that whole conversation about how women don’t go to the movies and are not a film market? You know that conversation that we hear over and over as the big reason why we are inundated with crappy boy films week in and week out.
Well thanks to...[Read on] |
Think Pink, Think Prevention, But Most of All ... Think YOU
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Caregiving expert Sherri Snelling knows the importance of diligence when it comes to breast cancer and your healthSherri Snelling | Today 12:00 am
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p>Pink is typically associated with Spring, Schiaparelli or that fabulous Audrey Hepburn movie, "...[Read on] |
Unemployment Rises, Especially Among Single Moms, but Some Help Is on the Way
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by Joan Entmacher, Vice President for Family Economic Security, and Valerie Norton, Public Policy Fellow, National Women's Law Center
Unemployment rose to 10.2 percent in October, reaching a 26-year high, according to data released today by the Bureau o...[Read on] |
Sexism Watch: The 50 Best Shot Films of the Decade
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Ellen Kuras
The statistics on female cinematographers are abysmal. In 2009, only 2% of the top 250 US grossing films had a female cinematographer.
That would be 5 films. Five films out of 250. Pathetic.
And a woman has never been nominated for an ...[Read on] |
Interview with Mary Kay Place Emmy Nominee from Big Love
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Mary Kay Place is nominated for an Emmy for her work as Adaleen Grant on the HBO show Big Love. The ceremony for her category — guest actress in a drama series — takes place this weekend on August 21st.
Women & Hollywood: Congrats on the Emmy nomi...[Read on] |
Girls sports DO make money
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Contrary to popular belief, a new article in the NYTimes highlights a trend among youth sporting events--girls events tend to draw more crowds and bring in more revenue than boys events.
The article is comparing traveling teams and tournament sporting e...[Read on] |
Early Oscar Prediction—Best Directress: Kathryn Bigelow
| Oscar season generally begins after the Toronto International Film Festival, once the bulk of prestige films have screened for critics and picked up distributors, leaving only a handful of latecomers to tip the balance. (This year, these known unknowns in...[Read on] |
What's the deal with Women Drinking and Driving?
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Is binge drinking for women out of control? How much is too much and when do you know if you have a problem? In light of last month's tragedy about Long Island mom Diane Schuler, whose wrong-way drunk driving on a New York highway took the lives of eig...[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] |
A Bleak Employment Picture for Women – and Shelter from the Storm
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by Valerie Norton, Public Policy Fellow, National Women's Law Center
The unemployment data released today by the Bureau of Labor Statistics paint a bleak employment picture. The economy lost 467,000 jobs over the last month and the nation’s unemploy...[Read on] |
The still sorry stats on women working behind the scenes on TV
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Martha Lauzen and her team at the Center for Study of Women in Television and Film at San Diego State U. have updated the statistics on women creatives working behind the scenes during the 2008- 2009 TV season.
Here are the stats: (keep in mind these are...[Read on] |
Female athletes outperform their male counterparts in college
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College athletes are still setting records and dispelling myths — in the classroom.
The NCAA’s latest graduation numbers show nearly four out of five student-athletes earn their diplomas on time, an all-time high, and federal statistics show athletes...[Read on] |
NY Times book review discovers women writers
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Everybody knows that women are the ones that buy books. I’ve heard statistics that say that women buy upwards of 60% of all books. But the NY Times Book Review has always been a boy’s club. Happily, this week the section was actually readable an...[Read on] |
Star Trek’s Gender Problem
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I went to see Star Trek last night here in LA on a big screen in Culver City. Personally, I prefer to see the big blockbusters during the week cause I hate the crowds. Everywhere I was yesterday in LA people were talking about the movie. It really is ...[Read on] |
Economic Data on Women Show More Than Meets the Eye
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by Valerie Norton, Public Policy Fellow, National Women's Law Center
Here at the National Women’s Law Center, we make a point of looking deeper than the economic headlines because they may not capture the whole story. Last week, we wrote about how...[Read on] |
Bristol Palin: Teen Pregnancy Warning Sign?
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I love Cristina Page and think she’s brilliant — her book How the Pro-Choice Movement Saved America is a must-read — but I’m not sure she gets in right in this article about how Bristol and Levi could be the teen pregnancy spokespe...[Read on] |
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