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Next Thursday, September 8, President Barack Obama will give what’s being touted as a major speech that will pressure the so-called debt “super committee” to focus on job creation and tackling the nation’s high unemployment rate, which stood at 9.1 percent in July 2011.
While the speech is of interest to all Americans, it’s particularly important to …

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The U.S. higher education system has made tremendous strides toward achieving gender equality, but there are still several areas in which women exceed or fall short of their male counterpart. Historically, women have dominated majors like education, English and psychology, while men were more likely to study engineering, computer science or math. Although this may ring true at …

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Considering that women comprise the majority of college students these days, it’s easy to take currently available educational opportunities for granted. The drive and courage of females from previous generations — ones where simply being born with two X chromosomes meant a lifetime of treatment as a second-class citizen — made it all possible for today’s students, researchers and professors to indulge their passions, …

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According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, a study was conducted in 2010 to determine the amount of time children between the ages of 8-18 years of age spend using entertainment media, which includes TV, cells, internet, ipods, and video games. The results are astounding: the average child spends almost 11 hours a day, seven days a week, entrenched in them. (Here is a PDF version of the findings for further perusal). And they’re not the only ones …

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Recently a colleague of mine at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation forwarded the following article to my attention - ‘Math is for Boys’ Stereotype Still Alive by Valerie Strauss. The synopsis of Ms. Strauss’ article is that by second grade girls and boys express the stereotype that ”math is for boys” but not for girls.
The author cites the conclusions of the University of Washington study, entitled, ”Math-Gender Stereotypes in Elementary School Children.” She …

The New Agenda is honored to present Part II of Rasha’s Story, a series about the lives of women and girls in Saudi Arabia, written by a young Saudi mother.  You can read more about Rasha in Part I.
We encourage our viewers to leave questions for Rasha for future blog posts – or show support of her extraordinary courage in speaking out.
Saudi Arabia is a very strict Islamic nation, you cannot separate religion from the state, and most Saudis want to keep it that way. But when only men are …