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On Tuesday, women in Egypt took to the streets to celebrate INTERNATIONAL WOMAN’S DAY, and presumably their male counterparts, the ones who celebrated with then at the fall of Murbark, were to join them to celebrate “ democracy coming to Egypt”… So what happened?  Did they meet with unity and celebration by their male counterpart?  Hardly- they were met with hackles, verbal assaults and shades of Lara Logan, physical and sexual assaults. More than …

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Want to improve the lives of women and girls?  One surefire way:  get more women into leadership!
But how? We have a solution:  mentoring.  It’s what young working women and college women have been asking us for.  Repeatedly.  And so, we plan to give it to them!
Time to do things differently? Yes!  We have a vision for …

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The New York Times reported today on the gruesome gang rape of an 11 year-old girl in Texas.  You can read about this travesty here.
You can also read how the NYT reporter then proceeds to blame the 11 year-old victim (emphasis added):
Residents in the neighborhood where the abandoned trailer stands — known as the Quarters — said the victim had been visiting various friends there for months. They said she dressed older …

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In a scathing review of Tina Brown’s re-launch of Newsweek, Slate’s editor-at-large Jack Shafer betrayed himself as another in a long list of journalists and pundits who find women bring little of use to the table.  While I have had reason to fault Newsweek in the past for their biased coverage negating qualified female political candidates, it is ironic that in the reinvented Newsweek, a complimentary cover story about Hillary Clinton gets trashed by …

Tomorrow, The Daily Beast launches it’s second annual Women in the World Summit.
TNA President Amy Siskind will once again be representing The New Agenda, as one of 300 International women leaders invited to attend.
You can find a list of presenters here.
The agenda for the event is here.
You can find information on the event, which will be live streaming at The Daily Beast website here.
Amy Siskind will be tweeting her observations from the event. You can follow her at @AmyTheNewAgenda.

The opinions expressed herein are those of the author, and not necessarily those of The New Agenda.
“What’s Not Hot?” This blatantly misogynistic headline is how Jack Shafer celebrates International Women’s Day with his review on the Tina Brown’s debut issue of the Newsweek redesign. “Newsweek suffers [an]… avoidance of newsiness and the week” he says while complaining about “the queen of cold, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton” on the cover, a list of “150 Women Who Shake the World” and the “women theme” throughout.

It’s not enough to stop the dismissiveness at …

March 8th marks the 100th international celebration of women, which is being honored in the US, UK, Australia, Canada, Costa Rica, and other countries all over the world. To honor this day and the strength and economic, social, and political achievements of women, these countries are all hosting special events (1,506 worldwide) put together by corporations, women’s groups, schools, governments and charities.
Although International Women’s Day has had a history since the early 1900s, the first United Nations IWD event was organized in 1976, and even though there was a twenty …

People around the world are uniting today to celebrate women on the 100th International Women’s Day (IWD). In addition, women and men will be engaging in reflection and dialogue over the obstacles women still face, and how to address them. The official theme for this year is access to education and pathways to work, with a focus on STEM fields (Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) . March is also Women’s History Month here in the United States, the theme of which is our shared history, so in keeping with both …

UPDATED WITH VIDEO!
Cristina Espinosa, Secretary and Board Member of TNA, will be appearing tomorrow on CNN en Español.   Cristina will participate in a panel discussion on International Women’s Day!
Cristina will appear at 8:30 a.m. EST on the show CNN Cafe.
And get ready…..
Watch the TNA Blog on March 8th as we pay tribute to the 100th Anniversary of International Women’s Day.  We’ll be celebrating all day long.  Please join us!!!

The opinions expressed herein are those of the author, and not necessarily those of The New Agenda.
Egyptian women fought alongside men in the Tahrir Square revolution feeling the power of equality which was critical to the success of the movement.  Yet, as the country rebuilds itself, the New York Times reports there have been some disappointments for women seeking equality and true democracy.
The committee of eight legal experts appointed by the military authorities to revise the Constitution did not include a single woman or, according to Amal abd al-Hadi, a longtime feminist here, anyone with a …