Posts by Kathy Groob
U.S. NAVY: Women Now Approved for Sub Duty
CNN- The first women to serve on U.S. Navy submarines are expected to be on the job by fall of 2011, Navy officials said Thursday, ushering in a policy change to what has been an elite service open only to men since the start of the modern Navy’s submarine program. While Defense Secretary Robert Gates…
Read MoreThe Pill’s 50th Anniversary – The Great Women’s Liberator?
Promises the Pill Could Never Keep Editorial By ELAINE TYLER MAY, New York Times AN end to poverty. A cure for divorce. The elimination of unwed pregnancy. Fifty years ago next month, when the Food and Drug Administration announced that it would approve the oral contraceptive, these were the highest expectations for it. At the same…
Read MoreCBS NEWS:Dems Slam GOP for Lack of Female Candidates
by Stephanie Condon, CBS News As Democrats head into what is expected to be a tough election year for them, the party says it has a solid lead over Republicans in one respect — its number of women candidates. Seeking to ding the GOP on the issue, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) is pointing…
Read MoreTennessee’s Kim McMillan Says NO GO to Governor’s Seat
Kim McMillan (D-Tennessee) has been running for governor of Tennessee since 2008. But on the last day of March, 2010, she announced she is no longer in that race and is running for mayor Clarkesville (TN) instead. There were at one time seven Democrats vying for the nomination, but had been narrowed down to two.…
Read MoreWorld Without Women
by Maureen Dowd, New York Times When I was in Saudi Arabia, I had tea and sweets with a group of educated and sophisticated young professional women. I asked why they were not more upset about living in a country where women’s rights were strangled, an inbred and autocratic state more like an archaic men’s…
Read MoreIn N.F.L. Fight, Women Lead the Way
… the wives of players with dementia regard their relationship with football as personal. After husbands live the dreams, the wives live the nightmares. By Alan Schwartz, New York Times Those who have followed the debate over the risks of sports concussions nodded knowingly Monday when its most significant legal action to date was brought…
Read MoreThe Curse of the Wow Factor
by New York Times Columnist Gail Collins In the middle of 2008, Hillary Clinton transformed herself from a perfectly-fine-but-slightly-boring presidential candidate to a really terrific campaigner. This all happened too late to help her candidacy. But some of us hoped that it might be the beginning of a new era. Women in politics had always…
Read MoreDaily KOS/SheKOS Diary: DNC Needs to include electing women in platform
From SheKos’s diary Huh. Guess there’s nothing actually in the platform about party outreach towards fielding more female candidates. (For the record, the passages on grooming more minority and LGBT Democratic candidates are equally nonexistent.) Maybe it never occurred to anyone running any of the platform hearings that women might face more obstacles to becoming viable…
Read MoreNPR Ranks the Top 10 Senate Primary Races; Includes Four Women
National Public Radio’s (NPR) political junkie, Ken Rudin has ranked the top ten U.S. Senate primaries coming up in May and June, and the list includes just four women. Arkansas Senator, Democrat Blanche Lincoln is facing a tough primary opponent who has the support of labor and the left wing of the party. The second…
Read MoreA Nope for Pope: Maureen Dowd Takes on Catholic Church
By MAUREEN DOWD, New York Times Op-ed Columnist Yup, we need a Nope. A nun who is pope. The Catholic Church can never recover as long as its Holy Shepherd is seen as a black sheep in the ever-darkening sex abuse scandal. Now we learn the sickening news that Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, nicknamed “God’s Rottweiler”…
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