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Earlier this week, just a day after the US Women’s National Soccer team won their Olympic qualifying tournament, a devastating blow hit the women’s sports world. Women’s Professional Soccer (WPS) announced it was canceling its 2012 season due to a legal dispute with one of the teams’ owner, Dan Borislow. This decision came just a few weeks after the league has received approval from the U.S. Soccer Federation to play their season with only …

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January 2012 marks the 11th annual National Mentoring Month. Among youth, mentoring programs such as Big Brothers, Big Sisters has led to lower drug use rates, better school attendance, and improved self-esteem. Having a mentor beyond one’s teens and during their education and professional development are important as well.  The American Psychological Association notes that female graduate students need mentors, and research shows that female graduate students rank having a female mentor is highly important …

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A portrait of a young Amy Beach.This weekend the National Symphony invited me to an evening at Strathmore (Washington area) entitled “Women Pioneers.”
The host was Madeleine Albright.
The program included
Aaron Copland’s “Fanfare for the common man”
Joan Tower’s “Fanfare for the uncommon women”
Saint-Saëns “Introduction and Rondo capriccioso”
Amy Beach’s “Grand Mass in e flat major”
Violinist Chee-Yun performed the solo part of Saint-Saëns “Introduction and Rondo capriccioso,” originally composed for Pablo de Sarrasate, the Spanish virtuoso …

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Uniformed US Army Nurse Corps, US Navy Nurse Corps, Women Assigned to Voluntary Emergency Services (WAVES), and Women's Army Auxiliary Corps.
Back in 2008, when Hillary Clinton was running for president, I came across an old black and white pictorial on American women from the late 1940′s at a used book fundraiser. Since I was feeling more than a little dispirited over the fate of women at the time, I bought the book hoping …

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Join us for three performances of ‘Sex In Mommyville’; Thurs., Fri., and Sat., at M.O.M. this week. Diva’s Do Lunch with Shira Adler and more. Buy tickets online here or call our front desk. 212.452.9816 (Check for the exact location at the bottom of the Schedule page.)

Everyone who has ever been born has had a mother; most women have been …

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From FEMA's site, "The Heroes of 9/11" – this photo was selected to be featured in the section for children. Click the image to see FEMA’s site.

I was not in New York that day. I was getting ready to drop my four-month-old baby off at my parents’ so I could go to a luncheon with my former co-workers, in honor of my having worked for the company. It was just pizza and …

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Today [August 26, 2011] is Women’s Equality Day. At the center of my mind today is:

What the heck do I tell my daughter?
How do I tell my daughter about the fact that despite many gains made for women’s (and mothers’) equality, women still don’t earn equal pay for equal work? Women now make, on average, only 77 cents for every dollar …

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Happy Women’s Equality Day! What’s that, you say? You’ve never heard of “Women’s Equality Day”? That’s understandable. It lacks the latent potential for commercialization that makes other manufactured holidays a hit with card companies, chocolate makers, and florists. I went to my local Hallmark and found no cards with the appropriate sentiment: “On the occasion of earning full citizenship rights . . . .” or “Baby, we have come a long way!”
Originally conceived …

Despite the worrisome economy, Iowans couldn’t be happier. It’s their turn – again.

Once every four years for about six months, Iowans get to showcase their state to a national audience, personally meet presidential candidates, and winnow down each party’s primary field.

Thursday night’s Fox News/Washington Examiner Iowa GOP debate kicked off this season’s festivities with a bang. The “all-American fun” continues today at the Iowa State Fair (with a cow carved out of butter and fried everything you can imagine, including a deep fried Snickers bar on-a-stick) and with the much-watched Ames Straw Poll (held …

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Image from ucsdnews.ucsd.eduNext Monday night, HBO is showing a documentary called Gloria Steinem: In Her Own Words. An activist, feminist, journalist and writer, Steinem co-founded Ms Magazine and spent her life advocating for women’s equality. Here’s her blog for more of her accomplishments towards this end.
The HBO special airs on the 18th at 9-10pm, and the Women’s Media Center has an entire page focused on it. Its objective is to get as many people to sit down …