Posts by Kathy Groob
Australian Leader Announces Cabinet With Record Number of Women
By MATT SIEGEL, New York Times – SYDNEY, Australia — Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, who supplanted Australia’s first female prime minister last week in a party coup, announced a new cabinet on Monday that includes more women than any other in the country’s history. Lawmakers of the governing Labor Party put Mr. Rudd back in power…
Read MoreKentucky Secretary of State Alison Grimes to Challenge Mitch McConnell for Senate Seat
LIVE- Frankfort, KY–Today Kentucky Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes announced she will challenge Senate Minority Leader Mitchell McConnell for U.S. Senate. McConnell has held the senate seat for nearly 30 years. The election will be held in 2014. Considered a rising star in the Democratic Party, Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes is Kentucky’s 76th…
Read MoreOne-Third of Women Assaulted by a Partner, Global Report Says
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS – New York Times – In the first major global review of violence against women, a report released Thursday found that 30 percent of women reported having been physically or sexually assaulted by a former or current partner. The head of the World Health Organization, Dr. Margaret Chan, called it “a global…
Read MoreName It. Change It. Stands by Research That Says Women Candidates Hurt by Appearance Remarks
In a post at the Washington Post’s Wonkblog, two researchers claim to have a study that finds press coverage of candidates’ appearance is not a problem for women candidates. But their data and research is not available to the media or anyone else to evaluate their work. Our Name It. Change It. project has published research…
Read MoreWendy Davis Chides Perry, Says She’ll ‘Fight With Every Fiber’ to Stop Abortion Bill
By Jeff Zeleny, Arlette Saenz for ABC News – FORT WORTH, Texas — The Democratic state senator who is leading the fight against significant new restrictions on abortions in Texas said Gov. Rick Perry and other Republicans were hypocritical, claiming to support smaller government but actually trying to increase state intrusion in people’s lives. Wendy Davis, the…
Read MoreWomen Winning Supports Betsy Hodges for Minneapolis Mayor
Womenwinning, Minnesota’s largest resource for women in politics, has endorsed City Council Member Betsy Hodges for Minneapolis Mayor. If elected in November, Hodges would become just the second woman elected (of 47 Mayors) in the city’s history. The organization is hosting a fundraising reception on Wednesday, June 26th from 5:30 until 7:00 p.m. to support…
Read MoreFeinstein, NSA’S top congressional defender, has built respect over decades of service
By Emily Heil, Washington Post – She stands before television cameras just hours after the news breaks that the U.S. government has been conducting a massive surveillance program, compiling a database of Americans’ phone records and monitoring foreign terrorism suspects’ Internet traffic. Sen. Dianne Feinstein says the top secret court order for telephone records of millions…
Read MoreWendy Davis: The Lone Star of Texas
Huffington Post – The Texas anti-abortion bill, which threatened to close nearly all of the abortion clinics in the state and prompted an 11-hour filibuster by state Sen. Wendy Davis (D), is dead, The Austin American-Statesman reported. Lawmakers had to vote on Senate Bill 5 before the special session’s end at 12 a.m. local time.…
Read MoreRaising Ms. President Documentary Producers Seeking Funds to Complete Production
By Kathy Groob, Founder ElectWomen – Film director Kiley Parker of Kentucky has been working for three years to film a story about why more women do not run for office and what’s being done to change that. Her documentary film project, Raising Ms. President, speaks directly to the younger generation of women about the…
Read More5 Old White Men Who Are Champions For Women’s Rights
By Darcey Bullock – Op-ed columnist Frank Bruni wrote recently in the New York Times about the puzzling stamina of sexism. Many hoped that after the feminist struggles during the 1970s, we would be further along than we are now; that a panel of witnesses on sexual assault in the military might contain more than…
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