A bit of TNA herstory:
3 years ago today, I gave a speech at a rally in Washington DC organized around the DNC’s Rules and Bylaws Committee meeting.
I remember how angry and hurt I felt about the way Hillary Clinton had been treated by the media, and the DNC’s silence and therefore, in my mind complicity, to overt sexism.
It was a time of awakening for millions around the country to the notion of sexism, and the need for change. Months later, in August 2008, we founded The New Agenda and …

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Gilty pleasures: Larry Flynt, with bodyguard Frank Torres, in his gold wheelchair at the Four Seasons Hotel, San Francisco – UK's The Independent (click image)Last Friday, America’s vilest pornographer Larry Flynt unintentionally exposed the mainstream media’s current profit-model: “Sarah Palin is the dumbest thing. But I made a fortune off of her.” Besides serving as a reminder of Flynt’s stunning arrogance (does he believe that getting rich from selling sordid fantasies makes him an …

The following article is cross-post with the express permission from the blog Female Science Professor. The opinions expressed herein are those of the author, and not necessarily those of The New Agenda.
Below is a slightly edited excerpt from a recent e-mail from a reader. Some details have been generalized to make the scenario a bit more.. general.
I’m a 30-something Physical Science PhD. I finished my PhD a few years ago, just before my middle child was born. Since then I have been primarily a stay-at-home mom, but I have remained …

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Older mothers, obesity, poverty and C-sections were blamed on the spike in maternal deaths. – California WatchAccording to a study completed for the California Department of Public Health in 2010, and released in April 2011, there was an alarming increase in maternal deaths associated with pregnancy related complications in California (see the report) . The rate of maternal deaths in California has nearly tripled in the past decade. While the numbers are …

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Jennifer Newsom, director of “Miss Representation” with her husband California Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom, as they attend the Sundance premiere of the movie at the Yarrow Hotel in Park City Saturday, January 22, 2011 (Additional info about the film below the fold.)Every election season, I ask myself the same question: Why aren’t more women running for public office?
Over the past ten years, …

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Political correctness took over our nation circa 1980′s and has become our mantra. It has engulfed our nation’s public and private spheres and we all hold one another to its inherent values. Whether you’re an advocate of unwritten PC laws, we have to come to know and understand them as showing politeness and respect to the diverse nature of our society. We are a nation of tolerance and acceptance, and we adopt the values …

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On Tuesday, MSNBC host Ed Schultz referred to radio show host Laura Ingram as a “slut.”  In fact, the word flowed so effortlessly off his tongue, he referred to her as “slut” twice in two sentences!  Yesterday, Schultz made an on-air apology and took a self-imposed one week suspension without pay.
But, Schultz’s short work leave is hardly fodder for revelry.  Schultz is but an annoying gnat in the misogynistic cesspool that is MSNBC.   Under MSNBC President Phil Griffin, …

Check out Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg’s commencement address at Barnard this past weekend.  Sandberg tells the Class of 2011, my generation blew it so equality is up to you graduates.
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The New Agenda was featured in an article at The Daily Caller, Government Pressure got frat kicked off campus?
In the article, TNA’s Amy Siskind was the ONLY party who approved of the University’s action against the fraternity, DKE:
President and co-founder of the women’s advocacy group The New Agenda said that federal pressure was likely the reason for Yale’s action, and that is was high time they did so.
“This has been going on at that university -it is well documented in what those students filed- its been going on for …

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Satoshi Kanazawa is a British-based Japanese evolutionary psychologist at the London School of Economics. In addition, he writes a blog for the American magazine “Psychology Today.” The title of a book he cowrote, Why Men Gamble and Women Buy Shoes: How Evolution Shaped the Way We Behave, unfortunately gives you an accurate idea of the sort of writing from him the readers of “Psychology Today” are subjected to. Naturally, science cannot simply be dismissed …