Meet-up Announcement!
Updated Date!
Asheville, North Carolina
Thursday, May 21st at 6:30pm
Join us in Asheville and learn about The New Agenda!  You’ll meet new friends, make plans, and talk about women!  Bring a guest or ten guests, everyone is welcome! 
CynthiaRuccia@thenewagenda.net for directions and more information!

Meet-Up Announcement!
The official program for the March 3, 1913, National American Woman Suffrage Association’s procession in Washington, D.C.
Washington, DC
Saturday, May 2nd at 12pm
Join The New Agenda at our first meeting in Washington DC!  Learn more about The New Agenda and meet other women (and men) who are committed to addressing the issues facing women today.
The meeting will be held at a private residence so please email us at CynthiaRuccia@thenewagenda.net for more information and directions.  Everyone is welcome so please bring your friends!  
*Read more about another meeting of trailblazing women in Washington …

At an event this past week in Washington DC sponsored by Vital Voices Global Partnership, SOS Clinton was honored as a Global Trailblazer. Here’s a bit on Vital Voices:
Vital Voices Global Partnership is the preeminent non-governmental organization (NGO) that identifies, trains, and empowers emerging women leaders and social entrepreneurs around the globe, enabling them to create a better world for us all. We provide these women with the capacity, connections, and credibility they need to unlock their leadership potential.
Politico reported on the event and the first line of the …

Ophelia was feeling totally invigorated after her great vent session last Monday night.  To celebrate – what’s a girl to do but go to the supermarket and stock up on pork rinds.
While Ophelia was standing in the check out line at the supermarket, she struck up the most interesting conversation with a young woman. This young woman was in her 20s and was concerned about managing her career and being able to have a family. She told Ophelia all about how her generation married later and wanted to …

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A new Cornell study of the reasons why there are fewer women at the top in Scientific, Technical, Engineering, and Math (STEM) fields concludes that “a powerful explanatory factor is that mathematics-capable women disproportionately choose non-mathematics fields.”
For me, the study-of-studies (by Ceci, Williams and Barnett, published in this month’s Psychological Bulletin of the American Psychological Association) raises as many questions as it answers. Importantly, it gives us a great opportunity to share ideas on what The New Agenda can/should be doing to help women in STEM fields.
The authors observe that …

Yakama two-hide dress, ca. 1890. Washington. Hide, pony beads, faceted Russian glass beads, fire-polished glass beads, cut glass beads, seed beads, sinew. From the online NMAI exhibit ‘Identity by Design: Tradition, Change, and Celebration in Native Women’s Dresses.’
In many cultures around the world, probably most, the making of clothing is traditionally the province of women. From sewing hides to weaving fine cloth, textile work has been women’s work for thousands of years. Women invented these technologies, just as they probably invented pottery and agriculture. …

Note: We are pleased to present this guest post by Risa A. Levine, an attorney in New York. It is cross-posted to Facebook.

Last night I attended the UN’s Millennium Development Goals Awards Ceremony. Although the member nations have identified the achievement of Gender Equality by 2015 as one the seven goals of world leaders, the Millennium Campaign failed to use this forum to demonstrate their own commitment to gender equality. Not one award recipient was female, only one in a long program of speakers was a woman, and of …

Meet-up Announcement!
–Second Meet-Up–
Cincinnati, Ohio
Saturday, April 25th at 4 pm
Join us for The New Agenda Meet-up in Cincinnati Ohio!  Whether you’ll be having coffee, a smoothie, a muffin, or a wrap—the one thing we can guarantee is that you’ll have a good time!
The Front Porch Coffeehouse
5245 Glenway Ave.
Cincinnati, OH 45238
(513) 471-JAVA (5282)
For more information, contact cynthiaruccia@thenewagenda.net

As we have discussed time and time again on this blog, Larry Summers is incompetent.
We wrote a piece titled Larry Summers: 3 Strikes, You’re OUT! in October 2008 when Summers was first rumored to be a candidate for Treasury Secretary. Just to recap:

While President of Harvard University, Summers infamously said: “There are issues of intrinsic aptitude, and particularly of the variability of aptitude, and that those considerations are reinforced by what are in fact lesser factors involving socialization and continuing discrimination.” In other words, according to Larry, boys are …