This story is an excerpt from a longer post at TruckingTruth.com.  The opionions expressed herein are those of the author, not necessarily of The New Agenda. 
Many women truck drivers and I have talked about the problems we face when trying to get served a meal at a truck stop…  When I enter the For Professional Drivers Only section in my uniform no less, and take a table, a waitress almost always comes to me and asks me to leave because it is for Professional Drivers Only… 
After this is done to …

There are 900,000 teen pregnancies annually (11-12% of all births in US).
22% of teen girls have been sexting (sending out nude or semi nude photos of themselves)
29% of single households led by women are below the poverty level (12% for
men).
Women represent 52% of the voters yet are only 17% of our government representation.
The US ranks 29th in infant mortality rates.  We were 12th in 1960; we now tie with Slovakia and lag behind Cuba.
The US ranks 27th in the 2008 Global Gender Gap study of economic opportunity, education, political empowerment and …

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12-yr-old Mackenzie Brown, first girl to throw a perfect little league game
Springfield College sophomore Danielle Sabinski grew up watching her older brother and dad throwing a baseball around in the backyard.  “Oh, I want to try that,” she remembered saying.
Sabinski was one of 24 women representing 10 different colleges who played in [the] Friendship Game in the rain at Berry-Allen Field.  It is believed to be the first baseball game played entirely by college women in more than 100 years.
Justine …

1 in 4 women will experience domestic violence in her lifetime.
Only half of domestic violence incidents are reported to the police.
17.6% of women in the United States have survived a completed or attempted rape.
The FBI estimates that only 37% of rapes are reported to the police.

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In Kuwait,women gained the right to vote and run for office in 2005 but failed in two previous elections to win seats in the 50-member parliament. Four women were elected in Saturday’s vote, according to official results read out by judges on state-owned TV on Sunday.
Kuwait has led the region in giving its people democratic rights. It has an elected parliament that wields considerable power, but the Cabinet is still chosen and led …

Why are advertisers getting marketing to women so wrong this month? Take Harley Davidson. It has declared May to be “Women Riders’ Month” and its dealers are sponsoring group rides and garage parties across the country, trying to introduce more women to riding. A section of their website is devoted to women riders and their stories. Yet simultaneously, their website uses sexist imagery to sell to men. So which is it — does Harley want women to feel respected and valued as customers, or do they want to use women’s …

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Does Wall Street prefer female Chief Financial Officers to male CFOs?  While it’s unlikely the financial world will make that claim any time soon, new research out of Boston College [reported at cfo.com] indicates the street responds more favorably to financial moves made by companies where the CFO is a woman.  David Kisgen, an assistant professor at Boston College co-authored the Gender and Corporate Finance Study with Jiekun Huang, a Ph.D. candidate at Boston College.  The study looked at public …

Cross posted with permission from No Quarter.
Rachel Alexandra, that is. Here is her performance in the Kentucky Oaks this year (the big filly race the day before the Derby):

The jockey, Calvin Borel, never had to do a thing – she just ran, but never into her top gear. Even still, she won by twenty lengths. Her breeder and co-owner at the time of the Kentucky Oaks, when asked if he had considered running her in the Derby said:
No sir, the Triple Crown races are to showcase the future stallions of …

This item is cross-posted from The Garnet Spy. The opinions expressed herein are those of the author and not necessarily those of The New Agenda.
State Rep. Nikki Haley
State Rep. Nikki Haley has announced her candidacy for the Republican nomination for Governor of South Carolina. No news there.
As soon as she announced, the knives came out. No news there, either. Sad, but not news.
Rep. Haley is tough enough and smart enough to handle herself, but I take personally one of the “put downs” to her political efforts. She’s a woman and, …