The following piece is the follow up to From Police Academy to Feminist Activist.
When I left the Sheriff’s Office, I went to work for a non-profit.  We were hugely political and I loved that aspect of the job.  I immediately began to volunteer for different campaigns mostly doing canvassing or literature drops.  It was good exercise, especially when the weather was nice, and I would sometimes bring my nieces along to help me out.  It gave us all an opportunity to spend time together while helping a cause we believed …

There’s a fair amount that has been written on this blog about Title IX, The Equal Opportunity in Education Act, which amongst other things, guarantees that  girls will have an equal number of sports teams as boys. Title IX is currently under attack.
My daughter is for the first year eligible through our middle school to play on a school team. I went to the parent meeting to discuss the parameters of the Fall Sports this past week.
I want to share with you all how important it is that …

What Everyone Should Know (formerly, What Every Woman Should Know) is a bi-weekly series on women’s history.
People like to think this was a country founded by men, but it wasn’t. It was co-founded by men. For a long time the actions of men were the only actions deemed valuable enough to be included in history books. Most Americans can name at least one founding father, and many can name more. Though women worked just as hard as men did from the very beginning of our nation, their contributions were …

The opinions expressed herein are those of the author and not necessarily those of The New Agenda.
Before I discuss the necessity to increase diversity in the student makeup of physics programs across the United States, I wanted to share data with you from the American Institute of Physics (AIP) in regard to earned income levels of individuals based on how far they have finished in school.  The chart below reveals data collected in the 2004 Census that was collected by the AIP Statistical Research Center.  This data shows …

The following article was written by The New Agenda’s Amy Siskind and is a featured story at MORE. The New Agenda continues to speak out about the importance of UNITY!
It’s back-to-school time, which is exciting for the kids except for, oh yeah, all their anxiety over schedules, books, classes and clothing.  Yet those pale in comparison to what moms face coming back this week–another year on the PTA battlefield.
I’m a PTA mom in transition. I spent 19 years working on Wall Street. Three years ago, I left to raise …

The opinions expressed herein are those of the author and not necessarily those of The New Agenda.
Diane Sawyer was born in December 1945 in Glasgow, Kentucky. Her father was a county judge, and her mother sought to give her the best education possible to inspire her creativity and individuality with “piano lessons, voice, ballet, tap, horseback riding, fencing, classical guitar and children’s theater.”
In 1967, she landed her first broadcasting job in Louisville, Kentucky with the local WLKY-TV for three years. She found the weather to be dull and …

World War II was the first war in which women played an “official” – read: directive – role in the war effort.  A mere twenty years after the Nineteenth Amendment prohibited voting discrimination based on an individual’s sex, women joined the war effort to tend victory gardens, weld steel weapons, and generally fill the gaps in production left for them when the Y chromosome-carrying world waged a war.
Women entered the factory workforce en masse soon after Rosie paved the way.  This early female-oriented …

Finally a role model for our daughters!
Yesterday, Tyra Banks let it all hang down – that is, her “real” hair.  Tyra opened her show saying:
This season on ‘The Tyra Show, we’re taking it to the next level and getting more real than ever before by encouraging women everywhere to own and rock what they’ve got and be proud!
Amen Tyra. We are so lucky to have you speaking out. Here’s what Tyra said on her show:

Cross-posted with the permission of Caren Turner, President of Turner Government & Public Affairs. The opinions expressed herein are those of the author and not necessarily those of The New Agenda.
On August 26th we celebrated “Women’s Equality Day.” Designated in 1977 by President Carter, the day commemorates the passage of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, granting women the right to vote. The amendment was the culmination of a seventy year struggle that began in 1848 at the world’s first women’s right convention in Seneca Falls, New …

The New Agenda’s Amy Siskind wrote an op-ed in today’s Daily Beast titled Breaking the Kennedy Bond:
In the piece, Amy argues:
Women especially have wrestled with Ted Kennedy’s legacy—and the dichotomy he represented. He did so much for so many. And yet his record, and his personal conduct, have created feelings of angst and unease. And so we perseverate in article after article, conversation after conversation, as if endless rehashing and tallying the score will help settle matters.
Appointing a woman to his seat would solve the problem. With this simple act, …