Tammy Duckworth Storms Congress on Two Prosthetic Legs

By Bill Briggs, NBC News contributor When Tammy Duckworth steps into Congress this January for her first term, she’ll be carried by two prosthetic legs – and the potent notion that if she can survive a grenade blast while piloting a chopper, she surely can endure any political flak on Capitol Hill. “The worst day…

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Church of England Says NO to Allowing Women Bishops

By ALAN COWELL and JOHN F. BURNS, New York Times LONDON — In a sign of deepening crisis in the Church of Englandafter it rejected the appointment of women as bishops, its spiritual leader said Wednesday that the church had “undoubtedly lost a measure of credibility” and had a “lot of explaining to do” to people who found its…

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Filmmaker Kamala Lopez Setting American Women’s Date with Equality

Open Letter to David Axelrod by Kamala Lopez. Mere days after winning the 2012 election with 332 electoral votes (in what some would call a landslide), you said, “Presidents always say, ‘I have a mandate’; that’s a foolish word and generally untrue.” A mandate is, by definition: A command or an authorization given by a political electorate…

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Custer’s Last Stand?

By Kathy Groob, Founder ElectWomen.com While traveling the country promoting Pink Politics during this past year, I heard the same question over and over from women; “What are these men doing? What do you think is the reason so many men just keep trying to control our reproductive freedoms and rights?”  I always replied, “It’s…

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Women’s Campaign Fund Applauds Election Night as a Historic Win for Women; Cautions About System Change Needed for Greater Gains

(WASHINGTON, DC) – Today, Women’s Campaign Fund (WCF) congratulated the hundreds of women candidates across the country who, despite the many barriers they faced, emerged victorious in their races and expressed solidarity with those that ran, but were ultimately unsuccessful. “While some races remain too close to call, one thing is certain: women made history…

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Pennsylvania Elects First Female Attorney General

Tuesday was a historic day for women in Pennsylvania.  Pennsylvania Women’s Campaign Fund (PWCF) endorsed candidate, Kathleen Kane, became the first woman elected to the office of Attorney General since it became an elected position in 1980.  Kathleen is also the first Democrat to be elected Attorney General in Pennsylvania. As the state’s chief law…

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