I recently wrote an email to a group of friends and neighbors about The New Agenda and the work we are doing to bring about awareness of the sexualization of our teenage daughters. Several parents emailed me questions about “sexting”.  Parents had never even heard the term, let alone known that 22% of teenage girls and 18% of teenage boys have been doing it!
Frankly, up until 2 months ago, I had never heard of sexting either.  I appeared on a PBS show called To the Contrary and …

“Save Second Base” by donating to breast cancer research – get it? It’s a promotional tag line that fund raisers have used for several years without controversy. However this year, when a Princeton student group made posters that added: “Gentlemen: Save Second Base,” controversy erupted. A counter-campaign posted slogans like “Ladies: Save the Male G-Spot – support prostate cancer research,” and “Gentlemen: Save Tittyfucking.”  Chloe Angyal’s Diary explains the counter-campaign’s ire:
Women are not their breasts. Presenting breast cancer research as an effort to save women’s breasts, rather than their lives, …

Who Will Fill the Seat?
When Supreme Court Justice Souter announced that he would step down, your organization sprang into action and issued a press release calling on President Obama to pick from a list of qualified women to fill that seat.
The New Agenda was the first national women’s organization to be quoted in The Washington Post, Politico, and The Huffington Post.
More recently, The New Agenda is also the “go to” national women’s organization cited in an article in an influential DC blog:   The Hill is said to be at …

Forty percent of workplace bullies are women, according to a survey published by the Workplace Bullying Institute.  Moreover, these women bullies target other women more than 70% of the time. As the New York Times asks:
In the name of Betty Friedan and Gloria Steinem, what is going on here?
Just the mention of women treating other women badly on the job seemingly shakes the women’s movement to its core. It is what Peggy Klaus, an executive coach in Berkeley, Calif., has called “the pink elephant” in the room. How can women …

What’s the perfect gift this Mother’s Day? Well, everyone is talking about The New Agenda’s new byline “We’ve Got Your Back“. What better gift in life than to know that an organization is building a nationwide network of women to watch your back.

And for those young ones who aspire to The New Agenda’s goals: Safety, Opportunity, Unity and Leadship, what better way to say “I got SOUL“.
Help support The New Agenda this Mother’s Day by doing some online shopping for these items and more here.

We are thrilled to present the invitation for our first fundraiser. Please help us by sharing the invitation with your friends, family and neighbors.
Our co-host committee and corporate sponsor committees are still in formation. If you or someone you know would like to be part of making “Herstory”, by sponsoring the organization who many around the country believe is the beginning of the Fourth Wave of Feminism, please sponsor us! Or donate whatever you can here.
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Now Who's Got the Coolest T-shirt on the Block?
This past week I went to a birthday dinner with a group of friends.  We met nine years ago when our daughters were in nursery school together. I count among my blessings having women like these in my life.  We have all had our ups and downs over the years since we met, but we have always had each other.
With this group of friends, the conversation usually turns to issues facing our daughters. We first met when our daughters were in “Mommy …

The following blog piece is an excerpt from an article originally posted on the author’s blog at RH Reality Check. The opinions expressed in this post are those of the author, not necessarily those of The New Agenda.
How do we end insurance company discrimination against women?
Simple. Insurance companies think such practices are wrong and would gladly end them, said Karen Ignagni, President and Chief Executive Officer of America’s Health Insurance Plans, in testimony before the Senate Finance Committee.
But, it seems there’s a catch, or two. First, Congress has to require …

Americans tend to think of forced prostitution as the plight of Mexican or Asian women trafficked into the United States and locked up in brothels. Such trafficking is indeed a problem, but the far greater scandal and the worst violence involves teenage girls.
These words are from Nicholas Kristof’s  New York Times Op-Ed two days ago. Kristof point out an ugly truth:  forced prostitution is not merely a problem in faraway countries; it’s happening right here to our American girls, in our American cities and towns.
Kristof tells a heartbreaking story …

This piece is written by Dr. Elizabeth Gregory and is her opinion, not necessarily that of The New Agenda.  Dr. Gregory was formerly a guest on The NewAgenda’s BlogTalkRadio Show, Chewing the Fat with Ophelia.  Dr. Gregory teaches at the University of Houston and is the author of Ready: Why Women Are Embracing the New Later Motherhood (Basic Books).
Motherhood changed utterly on the day after Mother’s Day 1960. That’s when the FDA approved the birth control pill for general use, and women at long last could become mothers by …