Posts by Kathy Groob

2012’s Well-Spoken Women – By Christine Jahnke, Author of The Well-Spoken Woman Give well-spoken women their due for a year filled with remarkable performances.  They delivered rousing words. Called it as they saw it. Rose above scathing scrutiny.  And, one brave girl is still recovering from attack. Their collective voices signal progress for women in…

Op-ed by Leymah Gbowee, for The Daily Beast – Nobel Peace Prize winner Leymah Gbowee says it’s time to stand up and demand that we protect the children of the world from a culture of violence. I read with dismay and immense pain in my heart and the pit of my stomach the horrific shooting…

By JODI RUDOREN, New York Times – JERUSALEM — The face-off at the security gate outside the Western Wall one Friday this month was familiar: for more than two decades, women have been making a monthly pilgrimage to pray at one of Judaism’s holiest sites in a manner traditionally preserved for men, and the police have stopped…

By CHOE SANG-HUN NEW YORK TIMES – SEOUL, South Korea — With the election of Park Geun-hye as president on Wednesday, South Korea extended the tenure of its staunchly pro-American governing party and handed power to the daughter of South Korea’s longest-ruling dictator, the first woman to win the post in a deeply patriarchal part of Asia. Voters appeared to…

Huffington Post – WASHINGTON — Maryland Sen. Barbara Mikulski is set to become the first woman to chair the prestigious Senate Appropriations Committee, a position left open this week by the death of Hawaii Sen. Daniel Inouye. A Democrat, Mikulski was first elected to the Senate in 1986 after serving 10 years in the House.…