Posts by Kathy Groob
A Setback for Pakistani Women
POLITICO – LAHORE, Pakistan — The amazing thing is that she stayed. For the past nine years, Mukhtar Mai has lived in the same village where she was allegedly dragged into a house, raped and pushed out naked, while 200 higher-caste tribesmen sat in approval nearby and her father was too frightened to save her. Mai…
Read MoreAbsent Voices – Women Under 40
By Kathy Groob – Women aged 40 and younger are nearly absent from elected office and their voices are needed to help shape policy and offer the perspective as working professionals, mothers, caretakers and community activists. WUFPAC (Women Under Forty Political Action Committee) was started in January 1999 by a group of young women, representing…
Read MoreIn a Life Filled With Firsts, One More – Debbie Wasserman Schultz to Become First Democratic National Committee Chairwoman
New York Times – Open lunchboxes are sprawled on the kitchen counter. Four dogs dart in and out. And three children rummage through backpacks. With the predawn bedlam at its height, the harried mother asks: Do you have your baseball glove? What do you want for a snack? How about the form I have to…
Read MoreGabrielle Giffords showing ‘more independence’
POLITICO- Doctors say Rep. Gabrielle Giffords can walk a little and is even trying to improve her gait. But the report Sunday in The Arizona Republic adds the congresswoman herself is planning to “walk a mountain.” Giffords uses her left side and has begun making limited use of her right arm and leg, a common…
Read MoreThe New Anti-Abortion Math
Gail Collins, New York Times – One of my favorite stories about the Texas State Legislature involves the time Senator Wendy Davis was trying to ask a colleague, Troy Fraser, some questions about a pending bill. Fraser deflected by saying, “I have trouble hearing women’s voices.” Really, she was standing right there on the floor.…
Read MoreWhy aren’t we having a conversation about Donald Trump’s hair?
By Kathy Groob – If Donald Trump was a woman looking to make a run for president of the United States, you can bet your dollar that pundits, media-types and average Joe’s would be talking about the hair. From pundits, bloggers and consultants, the female candidate’s appearance is ripe for conversation and comment and considered…
Read MoreWis. court challenger will seek statewide recount
MSNBC – MADISON, Wis. — Wisconsin Supreme Court challenger JoAnne Kloppenburg asked election officials Wednesday for a statewide recount in her flagging upset bid against Justice David Prosser, a race that marked yet another front in the fight over Republican Gov. Scott Walker’s polarizing union rights law. Final county tallies compiled last week showed Prosser held a…
Read MoreIs Social Media’s Importance in Politics Overblown?
by Noah Rothman,Campaigns & Elections Magazine – A story published yesterday on Politico quoted a number of sources questioning whether the amount of time that campaigns and Capitol Hill staffers spend monitoring communications through social media is worth it. Keeping up with messages that arrive online via e-mail, Twitter, Facebook and other social media platforms poses…
Read MoreEmerge Wisconsin Takes Bold Steps to Address 2012 Election
In direct response to the ongoing divisive overreach of Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker and his Republican rubber-stamp Legislature; Emerge Wisconsin has changed the dates of its 2012 training program in order to allow more women to run in 2012. “By moving up the program to 2011, this will allow Emerge graduates extra time to…
Read MoreFemale Genital Mutilation In Kenya: Local Girls Fight Back Against The Controversial Rite
Huffington Post – Two teenage girls in Kenya have attempted an unprecedented rebellion by refusing one of the most controversial rites of local womanhood: genital mutilation. As the Guardian is reporting, the procedure has bewildered Westerners, who “find it incomprehensible that a mother would allow her daughter to be so brutally amputated with all the risks of infection,…
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