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Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

The Guardian - By Amelia Hill - Nov. 22 (News Report) - If there is one thing on which many working mothers agree, it is that their partners do not pull their weight on the domestic front. But research to be published this week reveals that men are being unfairly accused and working women are advancing the

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Landrieu a 'yes,' all eyes on Lincoln

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

The Politico - By Carrie Budoff Brown,Jake Sherman - Nov. 21 -

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Whose Team Is It, Anyway?

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

The Nation - By Katha Pollitt - Nov. 20 (Opinion) - Pro-choice voters have been taking one for the team for too long now. Enough already.

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Easy Choices

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

OurFuture.org - By Terrance Heath - Nov. 20 (Opinion) - I'll say it again. Whether it's Sarah Palin's self-serving contradictions, or Democrats' and Republicans' cynical political compromises, in the realm of politics, the choices we make for others are the truly easy choices.

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Stupak Amendment Could End Abortion Coverage -- For Everyone

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

AlterNet - By Daniela Perdomo - Nov. 19 (Opinion) - there is more bad news for women: a George Washington University study released this week indicates that the Stupak amendment could have serious implications for industry-wide coverage of medically-indicated abortions.

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The Price of Health Reform: Abortion Rights?

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Mother Jones - By Rachel Morris - Nov. 10 (News Report) - Will health care reform come at the cost of abortion rights? The Democrats? historic health care bill squeaked through the House on Saturday only after pro-life forces scored a major victory. Despite months of wrangling over the public option and the price tag, in the end the legislation's fate turned on an eleventh-hour push by conservative Democrats to broaden the bill's existing limits on government funding of abortion, in the form of an amendment authored by Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.). Here?s what happened and what it means:

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Women could spell trouble for the GOP

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

The Politico - By Glenn Thrush, Meredith Shiner - Nov. 09 (News Analysis) - the growing schism between the Republican Party’s ascendant right wing and its shrinking moderate core has clear gender undertones — and Scozzafava’s departure raises fresh questions about the GOP’s ability to recruit, elect and even tolerate the sort of moderate women who used to be part of its ruling mainstream.

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Six Smart Progressive Complaints About House Health Bill

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

The Nation - By John Nichols - Nov. 09 (News Report) - Many sincere progressives in the House, and outside of it, chose to back the bill as the best that could be gotten. Others supported it on the theory that flaws could be fixed in the Senate and in the reconciliation of the House and Senate bills. But those repairs will only be made if activists are conscious of what ails this bill.

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Republicans Giving Women 'Back Of The Hand Treatment'

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Tim Taliaferro - Nov. 09 (News Report) - The Republicans who shouted down and continuously interrupted female members of the House testifying in favor of the health care bill on Saturday were giving women what amounted to the "back of the hand treatment," Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz (D-Fla.) said Monday. The abortion-rights champion and senior Democrat criticized House Republicans in a conference call with reporters and called the behavior the most disrespectful she has seen during her 17 years in elected office.

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A tragic clash of cultures

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Seattle Times - By Leonard Pitts Jr. - Nov. 08 (Opinion) - An Iraqi immigrant father runs down his daughter with his car and calls it honor. That is not honor, writes columnist Leonard Pitts Jr. It is an act of appalling cowardice suggestive not simply of religious extremism but of a people in fear of the sexuality and independence of women.

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Up-or-down vote on an amendment to block abortion funding OK'd

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

The Hill - By Molly K. Hooper, Mike Soraghan - Nov. 07 (News Report) - Liberals on the Rules committee threatened to vote against the final healthcare bill if it included Rep. Stupak’s language. Read more...

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GOP Gone Wild: Unruly Republicans Silence Women Lawmakers With Screams, Shouts, And Delay Tactics

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Think Progress - By Think Progress - Nov. 07 (Opinion) - This morning, the House began consideration of the rule for debate of the House health care bill. As the Democratic Women’s Caucus took to the microphone on the House floor to offer their arguments for how the bill would benefit women, House Republicans — led by Rep. Tom Price (R-GA) — repeatedly talked over, screamed, [...]

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What’s Good for the Kids

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Lisa Belkin - Nov. 06 (Special Report) - It has been apparent for a while now that we live in child-centric times. We approach parenting with a single-mindedness that baffles our own parents, and certainly their parents, who thought children should be seen and not heard. We think it’s just fine to put our kids ahead of our careers, our relationships, our social lives, and even if we aren’t doing so, everyone around us seems to be.

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Young Women Need to Protect Themselves

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New America Media - By Valerie Klinker - Nov. 01 (Opinion) - Rape is a big issue in our society because it has occurred for thousands of years. Rape dates back to the early American days, when Native Americans, Blacks, and Mexicans all got raped by white men, who also stole their land. I know plenty of women who have been raped. To protect themselves, now they're much more careful. They stay strapped up and watch their surroundings. It's like safe drinking or having a small child; the way you would watch others is the way you're watch out for yourself. Young women shouldn't be naïve and assume rape wouldn't ever happen to them. Don't be the only girl in a crowd full of boys who are drinking. It's just not safe.

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Coulter says husbands rarely beat up their wives

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

PolitiFact - Oct. 22 (News Analysis) - On his Fox News show, commentator Sean Hannity defended Rush Limbaugh, who was dumped by business partners bidding to buy the St. Louis Rams due to controversy about racial comments Limbaugh has made. Hannity brought on conservative pundit Ann Coulter, who argued the NFL has long been "easily very spooked by crazy left-wing hoaxes."

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Op-Ed Contributor: Nothing to Fear but the Flu Itself

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 00:11:58 -0700

New York Times - Oct. 12 (Opinion) - PUBLIC health officials are now battling not only a fast-spreading influenza virus but also unfounded fears about the vaccine that can prevent it. Since April, more than a million Americans have caught H1N1 flu, more than 10,000 have been hospitalized,

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Women getting short end of health coverage

Wed, 07 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Miami Herald - By David Lightman - Oct. 07 (Special Report) - Women of child-bearing age routinely pay more for healthcare because they're women. If they're pregnant, they can be legally denied coverage. Women face other problems in today's insurance market: They tend to need more preventive care and therefore are subject to more co-pays and deductibles, and single heads of households are often women, meaning they're responsible for the family's healthcare bills. Legislation now being considered by Congress to overhaul America's healthcare system would dramatically change the rules, and there's general agreement that this is a problem that needs fixing.

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Fleischer: Birthers just like ‘loony’ liberals who thought Gore won

Wed, 07 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Raw Story - By Diana Sweet - Oct. 07 (Opinion) - On CNN's Larry King Live Show Tuesday evening, as King and Democratic strategist James Carville try in vain to get Republican Congressman Michele Bachmann to answer a question about the 'birthers,' former White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer chimes in claiming hypocrisy by the left because there were those who questioned the legitimacy of the [...]

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Why women might make better judges

Mon, 05 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Slate - By Stephen Choi, Mitu Gulati, Mirya Holman, Eric Posner - Oct. 05 (Opinion) - Justice Sonia Sotomayor's elevation to the Supreme Court brought to the surface a long-simmering controversy about the relationship between gender and judging. Are female nominees for judicial positions chosen based on affirmative action? If so, are women on the bench worse judges than men—or do they come with advantages that men lack? This controversy has legs. If Justice Ginsburg is forced to retire this term because of illness, reducing the number of female justices from two to one, there will be a great deal of pressure on President Obama to nominate another female jurist. Or if Justice John Paul Stevens retires, why not three women on the high court?

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Darfur refugees raped in Chad camps

Tue, 29 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Reuters - Sep. 29 (News) - Women who fled violence in Sudan's Darfur region are being regularly raped in refugee camps in neighboring Chad, despite the presence of U.N.-trained forces, Amnesty International said on Wednesday.

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The CEO Pay Debate: Why Reform Is Going Nowhere

Fri, 04 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

TruthOut - By Chuck Collins, Sam Pizzigati - Sep. 04 (Opinion) - Shareholders have no reason to begrudge executives like these their fortunes. But the rest of us do. To grab those fortunes, after all, executives are making decisions that place our futures at risk. And that reality takes us right to the core of what's wrong with the current executive pay reform debate's single-minded focus on shareholders: Why should we let shareholders be the ultimate arbiters on the size of executive rewards when these rewards can and do create incentives for CEO behaviors that hurt people who aren't shareholders? In effect, all of us have become stakeholders in executive pay decisions - and we need, consequently, a stakeholder, not just a shareholder, approach to reform.

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Too fat to be a model? The picture that caused a storm in the fashion world

Wed, 02 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Naomi Alderman - Sep. 02 (Special Report) - the overwhelming reaction to the tiny photograph, buried on page 194 of Glamour magazine "shows that the world is hungry to see pictures of normal women."

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The Dawn Blog : Religion vs. politics

Tue, 01 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

blog.dawn.com:91 - By Naveen Naqvi - Sep. 01 (Opinion) - When Shehnaz talks about the house that she built with her earnings, you can see her pride. She spent Rs 500,000 on just the construction. Sunlight streamed into every room. It was not in a dark alley, but right on the corner of a street. The women she waxed helped her put the money together to make her home. Shehnaz and her three children were happiest when living there. That is, until her husband sold the house.

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’89 Thesis A Different Side of McDonnell

Sat, 29 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Amy Gardner - Aug. 29 (News Report) - Va. GOP Candidate Wrote on Women, Marriage and Gay.... A Different Side of McDonnell Va. GOP Candidate Wrote on Women, Marriage and Gays

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Afghan women’s futures must not be overlooked

Fri, 21 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Worldfocus - By Masha Hamilton - Aug. 21 (Opinion) - A woman at a polling centre in Kandahar City. Afghanistan is heading to the polls for national elections -- but out of 41 presidential candidates, only two are women. Progress has been slow since the fall of the Taliban regime in 2001. Perhaps to appease conservatives ahead of the election, President Hamid Karzai recently enacted a [...]

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