Posts by Kathy Groob
Saudi Women Win Right to Vote
ABC News – Women in Saudi Arabia will be given the right to vote and run in future municipal elections, and will be appointed to the all-male Shura advisory council, King Abdullah announced today. Women will not be allowed to vote in municipal elections this Thursday, but will be able to in the following municipal elections…
Read MoreHistory Moment: 15 First Female Professors
By Online Colleges – There are more female professors today than there ever have been at any point in history, but academia still remains a man’s world — especially in majors like philosophy, engineering and computer science, where female professors are few and far between. While there is undeniably room for improvement, that shouldn’t overshadow…
Read MoreHillary Clinton Promotes Women’s Rights Treaty That U.S. Has Not Yet Joined
Huffington Post-– On the eve of high-level meetings for the United Nations’ general assembly, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton attended an event on Monday afternoon designed to highlight the importance of women’s participation in public life. Together with a selection of major female world leaders, including Catherine Ashton, the European Union’s top diplomat, and Michelle…
Read MoreShe’s Coached the Best – Now Her Book Can Help You!
By Kathy Groob, Publisher ElectWomen Magazine Every women candidate needs a great speech coach like Chris Jahnke. But if you do not have access to the personal training she provides, now you can read her new book, The Well-Spoken Woman. Ranked at the top of the nation’s leading political speech coaches, Chris Jahnke offers advice,…
Read MoreNewsweek Magazine’s Global Women’s Progress Report: Where Women Are Winning
By Jesse Ellison for Newsweek – Just over a decade into the 21st century, women’s progress can be seen—and celebrated—across a range of fields. They hold the highest political offices from Thailand to Brazil, Costa Rica to Australia. A woman holds the top spot at the International Monetary Fund; another won the Nobel Prize in…
Read More8th Annual Economic Summit for Women to Convene in Nashville in October
Women from across Tennessee will come together for the eighth annual Economic Summit for Women sponsored by the Tennessee Women’s Economic Council Foundation on October 24, 2011. Keynote speakers include Jean Chatzky and Kathy Hopinkah Hannan along with a variety of workshops and awards. Tennessee’s premier networking and educational event for women will be held…
Read MoreComing Home: Kim McMillan Serving as Clarksville TN Mayor
She was her high school valedictorian and the first female Tennessee House majority leader. Kim McMillan is well-known throughout Tennessee. In 2010, McMillan chose to give up higher political aspirations to come home to run for mayor of her hometown. The fifth largest city in Tennessee, Clarksville has been home to Kim McMillan and her…
Read MoreWatch Out for Dirty Tricks: Wrong Election Date on Mailers
Dirty Tricks in Wisconsin: Deceptive Absentee Ballot Mailers Appear to be Coordinated Hoaxes | Courtesy of The Brad Blog – No doubt by now you’ve heard of the deceptive absentee ballot applications mailed to Democrats in Wisconsin by David Koch’s Americans for Prosperity, WI, as reported earlier this week by David Catanese at Politico. From…
Read MoreAmerican woman violated and strip-searched after flying on 9/11
MSNBC – Shoshana Hebshi will never forget where she was on the 10th anniversary of Sept. 11. She and two other airline passengers were handcuffed and strip-searched after flying into Detroit on Sunday. No charges were filed against Hebshi, a self-described “half-Arab, half-Jewish housewife living in suburban Ohio,” or the two men sitting next to her,…
Read MoreNationalized Election Ends Run for Kate Marshall of Nevada
Democratic Nevada State Treasurer Kate Marshall was defeated in a highly nationalized special election Tuesday by Republican Mark Amodei, a former state GOP chairman and state senator, to become the U.S. representative for most of Nevada, including Washoe County. The seat has never been held by a Democrat. Marshall called Amodei about 9 p.m., with…
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