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Women today have more options and freedoms than they’ve had at any point in history, but there’s still a long way to go for true equality in the workplace and everyday life.

Whether you’re a college student working to get ahead in a male dominated field or a woman already in the working world and meeting that glass ceiling head on, you know about …

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“Transformers: Dark of the Moon,” the third installment in this $1.5 billion franchise that just set a new record for a Fourth of July weekend opening, follows what has become a Hollywood action movie tradition of virtually erasing women, despite the fact that women buy 55% of movie tickets and market research shows that films with female protagonists or prominent …

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Recently Cal Thomas of Fox News suggested that a Jell-O wrestling match would be a more appropriate venue for Michele Bachmann than the campaign trail.
Do the talking heads in the media think that it is open season on women? Apparently so, because virulent sexism was used to destroy Clinton’s campaign, and sexism was used with less success against South Carolina Nikki Haley.

Michele Bachmann and Sarah Palin have been treated to the sort …

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People look to the past when they fear the future, and the line-up of TV fare indicates there is a lot of fear to go around. How do we soothe bruised egos and wounded pride of men and their overwhelming anxiety? When there are more women receiving college and graduate degrees? When women are more visible in public and the business arenas? When the labor market is so erratic? We …

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In an article published by The Daily Beast titled The Problem with Rape Prosecutions, Alan Dershowitz, a writer and law professor at Brooklyn College suggests that one of the ways the Dominique Strauss-Kahn rape case went wrong was that the woman allegedly raped by him was not publicly outed. If she had, then those who knew her — neighbors, friends, family — could have revealed personal information about …

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Fourth of July is Independence Day for America. It marks the day the people of England separated from British rule and its tyrannical King in favor of freedom. It was July 4, 1776 that the Declaration of Independence was signed by the founders of America as they made their new democratic home in what we now call the United States of America. And it was in this new land, this …

Check out Amy Siskind explaining that gender bias impacts women politicians of BOTH parties:

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Lara Logan in Egypt, shortly before attack.Why is it that when a woman is raped or assaulted the questions of her sexual history, dress, and decorum are immediately brought to the attention of the world as factors that contributed to her victimization.
The following words are those of Dan Rottenberg expressing his opinion on the matter of women’s attire and CBS news reporter Lara Logan – whom if you remember was covering the revolution in …

h/t to The Daily Caller.