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There are many pro-women icons that I look up to and try to emulate in my day-to-day life.  Women like Susan B. Anthony and Eleanor Roosevelt, who helped women understand their strengths and assets as human beings.  Women like Sojourner Truth and Alice Paul who clarified that the strength that was derived from the unity of women cannot be equaled.  They did not strive for rights of women only to single out …

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Why we still don’t have a woman in the White House or Chairing the Board.
During a recent speaking engagement at a well-known business school I was proudly informed by a university executive that he had recruited mainly women to his team. He clearly expected a pat on the back. I asked him how many women there were on the university executive committee – the answer was none. I was told not to …

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Kelly Ayotte is running for Unites States Senator for New Hampshire.
There’s an insidious narrative out there in the world of women in politics that is difficult to shake and it goes something like this:
Women who seek powerful political positions are bad mothers! They neglect their children! They raise them to be unruly citizens! They are cold and heartless and will do anything to further their career …

The following article by The New Agenda’s Amy Siskind appears on the front page of The Huffington Post.
It’s back to school time. As if parents and students don’t have enough to worry about, there’s an alarming study by the U.S. Department of Justice. The finding: 1 in 4 college girls will be the victim of rape or attempted rape before they graduate. Also in the news, a lawsuit filed as a result of the suicide of a freshman woman who was a victim …

The opinions expressed herein are those of the author, and not necessarily those of The New Agenda. This article has been cross-posted from AmazingWomenRock.com.

The advertising of so-called “feminine products” recently hit a new all-time low with the launch of a trio of “dream date” YouTube videos by sanitary pad producer StayFree.
The YouTube vids, in which three (admittedly gorgeous and stunningly well-built) young men find excuses to strip to the waist and compare the thinness and absorbency of Stayfree regular ultra thin pads with wings …

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Being an engineer, I may miss out on the subtleties of what is necessary to run a successful advertising campaign.  I may not understand what it takes to get a message out there to change the public’s perception or to get the public to want to buy a product.  When I see blatantly sexist ads, especially those that advocate violence against women, I just have to wonder; what did the ad’s storyboard …

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On Tuesday, August 31, after more than seven years of war, President Obama officially ended the United States’ combat mission in Iraq, enabling all remaining American troops to arrive home safely by the end of next year. It is something to celebrate, the saving of lives, except for the 4,746 deceased American combatants for whom this decision has come too late.
How do we learn from this experience of the wasted and lost …

Rolling Stone Magazine's September "True Blood" cover is getting a lot of attention.
Welcome, readers! Do you read Rolling Stone? I want your opinion about the Rolling Stone’s September issue. What do you think of the cover that features a woman sandwiched between two men? All three are very naked and very bloody. They appear to be covered in someone else’s blood.
Some people think the picture is sexist, but other people think it is perfectly okay because of sexual tension on the characters’ TV series. …

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I’ve been watching the fourth season of Mad Men with a knot in my stomach.  For the first three, I convinced myself that the level of blatant sexism at the Sterling Cooper (now Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce) advertising agency was as retro as three-martini lunches and girdles.  But the most recent episodes have disabused me of those notions.  Truth be told, when it comes to sexism we have little to brag about.  …