The New Agenda Blog

Ready for some empowering events this quarter?  Meet us here:

Rutgers College - January 30th – Trayes Hall (see details)
TNA on Campus and Rutgers Career Services present:  A Girlfriends’ Guide to Making it in the Real World

Athena Film Festival - February 9-12 - Barnard College
The New Agenda is a sponsoring organization.  See the film schedule and trailer.

Cornell University - March 3 – TBD
TNA on Campus and Cornell Career Services present:  A Girlfriends’ Guide to Making it in the Real World.

Want a free ticket to Athena?
We are offering free tix to the Athena Film Festival to the first 5 members who respond!  Email us at editor@thenewagenda.net.

GIRLFRIEND, BUILD YOUR NETWORK!
Have you started to build your network at The Mentor Exchange?
No?  Sign up here right away!
Yes?  Tweet that you did with hashtags #MentorUp #WomanUp !

Watch our launch on Fox & Friends with Pioneer Mentor Gretchen Carlson:

The New Agenda is proud to once again be a partner of the Athena Film Festival, which will be held from Thursday, February 9 through Sunday, February 12 on the Barnard College campus in Morningside Heights.  Please visit http://athenafilmfestival.com/program/schedule/ for more information and to purchase tickets.

Here is the trailer for the Film Festival.

Films have power: the power to create conversation, to reveal truths and to inspire. But for too many generations, women’s voices and women’s stories have not been appropriately represented in mainstream films. The stories of women as change agents and heroes who have made a difference in their countries and communities have the power to spur social change. When young women see role models on screen, they better understand their own potential to bring freedom and justice to their communities. When women activists witness remarkable women in action, they better understand that they too can change the world for the better. (more…)

The opinions expressed herein are those of the author, and not necessarily those of The New Agenda.

According to the New York Times, Marc Cenedella, “a Republican businessman laying the groundwork for a possible run for a United States Senate seat in New York” against Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, just took responsibility for publishing a blog with these kinds of offensive entries. Hernandez also shares that:

The interview was the first time that Mr. Cenedella commented publicly on the matter since The New York Times reported on Monday that until recently, entries containing random observations about sex, women and drugs were on a Web site that bore his photograph and the title “The personal blog of Marc Cenedella.”

In an entry titled “A New Holiday for Men,” there was a link to a separate site that designates March 14 as a special occasion on which women are encouraged to offer steak and oral sex “to show your man how much you care for him.” Another entry linked to a site that purports to provide biblical justification for a man’s having more than one wife. “I wasn’t so sure about all this Bible stuff,” the entry accompanying the link said, “but I’m starting to cotton to it.”

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To view the full press release, please visit here.

NEW YORK, NY –The New Agenda, a national pro-women advocacy group, today announced a new “Mentor Exchange” spearheaded by 20 standout women in their careers. Young women professionals logging onto the new online social media hub (http://www.thementorexchange.org) will benefit from the experience and savvy of “Pioneer Mentors” such as Fox & Friends Co-Host Gretchen Carlson, New Jersey’s first woman Senate Majority Leader Barbara Buono, Gurwitch Product’s CEO Claudia Poccia, former Goldman Sachs partner and philanthropic leader Jacki Zehner, internationally recognized author-filmmaker Jean Kilbourne, Washington Supreme Court Justice Faith Ireland (Ret.), former White House domestic policy advisor Terrell Halaska, and award-winning journalist and television host Bonnie Erbe. (For a full list of Pioneer Mentors:http://www.thenewagenda.net/pioneer-mentors/). Watch this introductory video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PO0b_Zo_JQ

The New Agenda’s Amy Siskind speaks to Fox & Friend Co-Host and Pioneer Mentor Gretchen Carlson on the launch of The Mentor Exchange , with support from The Staples Foundation:

The following  op-ed is featured on the front page of The Huffington Post.

“The end of ‘fair’ comes the day you graduate.”

That’s the tough reality I deliver on campuses in speeches to college women.  Most shake their head in agreement.  They know what lies ahead.

Yes, in 2011, for the first time in history, women surpassed men as recipients of college degrees.  But, once they’re in the workforce, women have vastly different career and pay trajectories.  In fields like corporate management and politics, men still occupy 84% and 83% of leadership roles, and women’s progress has stalled or is moving backwards.   For wages, even though young women enter the workforce on a par with their male-counterparts, by their mid-20s a gender wage gap develops and over the years, it widens. (more…)

The opinions expressed herein are those of the author, and not necessarily those of The New Agenda.

I think the term “hero” is used way too often and way too loosely these days. People will name somebody famous and call him (or her) a hero and, when pressed, they don’t even really know why. “I dunno. I guess because he’s cool?” Not really anything with a lot of substance.

The political season can become very contentious and, unfortunately divisive. Raised voices and blood pressures are not uncommon and, on occasion, I am no exception. Any time major elections roll around, however, my heart softens a bit when my thoughts turn to those whom I consider true heroes: the women who fought so hard for my right to vote.

Alice Paul, Ph.D. was a suffragist who worked tirelessly to continue the efforts of Susan B. Anthony to secure the right for women to vote, and she was the original author of the Equal Rights Amendment (which still has not passed). In 1917 she organized a small group of women to protest in front of the White House for women’s voting rights. They were arrested and thrown in jail. While they were incarcerated, she and some of the other women went on a hunger strike. They were force-fed with feeding tubes, and prison officials tried to have her transferred to a psychiatric hospital to be declared insane. This garnered so much attention in the press that President Wilson told Congress it was a necessary part of the war effort to pass an amendment. The 19th Amendment passed in 1920. (more…)