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Brazil Elects First Woman President
New York Times – SÃO PAULO, Brazil — Dilma Rousseff was elected the country’s first female president on Sunday, as Brazilians voted strongly in favor of continuing the economic and social policies of the popular president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Ms. Rousseff, who served as Mr. da Silva’s chief of staff and energy minister, joins a growing…
Read MoreThe Top 25 Most Powerful Women Of The Midterm Elections
By Meghan Casserly, Forbes Magazine The midterm elections are a week away, and this year an overwhelming number of female candidates, commentators and influencers are commanding the headlines, brashly driving the conversation and laboring to deliver who will control the Senate, the House and the future of the country. The forces that put us in…
Read MoreDemocrats fear wipeout for women
By Marian Cogan, Politico While conservatives are already celebrating the “Year of the Republican Woman,” thanks to a record number of GOP female candidates for Congress, Democrats fear the opposite trend: the year of the women’s wipeout. Three Democratic women first elected to Congress in 1992 — the original “Year of the Woman” — are…
Read MoreAlaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski Concedes Primary – Senate Women Reduces to 16
Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) conceded her primary race Tuesday night after she failed to close the gap on attorney Joe Miller in the ongoing vote-counting process. With the removal of Senator Murkowski at the end of the year, the number of women in the U.S. Senate will drop to 16. Murkowski gained just 38 votes…
Read MoreKagan Sworn In – Three Women Now Serving on the U.S. Supreme Court
Elena Kagan was sworn in on Saturday as 112th U.S. Supreme Court justice. Vowing to “administer justice without respect to persons and do equal right to the poor and to the rich,” Elena Kagan was sworn in by Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. as the 112th justice to the Supreme Court on Saturday. She is…
Read MoreMissouri Senate Primary Candidate Uses Violent Undertones Against Female Candidate
On Tuesday, August 3rd a Democratic primary election for a state senate seat in Missouri has become an ugly match between County Councilmember Barbara Fraser and former Representative Sam Page. Page is using imagery from a Nintendo shooting video-game, Duck Hunt, in which he pictured Barbara Fraser’s face as the target. (Image capture from Nintendo’s…
Read MoreSenate Candidate Uses Macho Tactics to Slam Female Opponent
Republican Senate Candidate’s High Heels Comment Revealed (CNN – Ken Buck, a Republican Senate candidate in Colorado, is causing a stir after recent comments asking voters for support “because I do not wear high heels.” The off-color remark that drew roaring laughter at a recent campaign event, came in response to an ad campaign from…
Read MoreArgentina legalizes gay marriage in historic vote
Washington Post–With advocates for gay rights watching worldwide, Argentina early Thursday legalized same-sex marriages to become the first country in an overwhelmingly Catholic region, Latin America, to grant same-sex couples the same rights as heterosexual couples. After 14 hours of sometimes heated debate that lasted nearly until dawn, the Senate voted 33 to 27 to…
Read MoreU.S. State Department Taps Teresa Isaac for Pakistan Democracy Training
Midway College MBA Professor and Lexington Kentucky former mayor Teresa Ann Isaac was selected by the U.S. State Department to conduct trainings in Lahore, Islamabad, and Karachi, Pakistan during June. In Lahore, Isaac met with former Lahore Mayor Mian Amir Mehmood to discuss the status of education in Pakistan and the importance of the free…
Read MoreAustralia Elects First Female Prime Minister
CNN- Australia’s Labor Party has elected Julia Gillard as the new prime minister, making her the nation’s first woman in that position, a party spokesman said Thursday. “A special meeting of the party was held this morning at which the positions of leader and deputy leader were declared vacant,” Labor Returning Officer Michael Forshaw told…
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