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In a Year of Firsts – First African American Woman Selected to Run Xerox
At Xerox, a Transition for the Record Books , By ASHLEE VANCE, New York Times After eight years of hard work turning around a company in disarray, Anne M. Mulcahy has managed to make her departure as chief executive of Xerox look effortless. During a shareholders’ meeting on Thursday, Ms. Mulcahy revealed that she would retire…
Read MoreJudy Chu Wins Primary ! – Special Election July 14th
Dr. Judy Chu has won won enouch votes in the primary for the 32nd Congressional seat in California that was vacated by Hilda Solis when President Obama nominated her for labor secretary. Chu successfully beat her main oponent Gil Cedillo for the democratic place on the ballot but fell short of the majority needed in…
Read MoreWanted: Justices From Venus
By Ruth Marcus, Washington Post “It contributes to the end of the days when women, at least half the talent pool in our society, appear in high places only as one-at-a-time performers.” That was Ruth Bader Ginsburg, standing by President Clinton’s side, commenting on her just-announced Supreme Court nomination. I was in the Rose Garden…
Read MoreKuwaiti Women Make History
By Brandy Bailey, Contributor ElectWomen Magazine Four Kuwaiti women made history on Saturday when they became the first women elected to their nation’s parliament. This is a huge victory given the conservative nature of Kuwait and the fact that the country’s legislature has been comprised only of men for the past five decades. Women in…
Read MoreFlorida Legislator Fights for Breast Cancer Awareness Bill
By Brandy Bailey, ElectWomen Magazine Contributor Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s concern for children and working families is what first motivated her to run for office in 1992, where she made history as the youngest woman ever elected to the Florida state legislature at the age of 26. Throughout this first race she displayed a vision and…
Read MoreSupreme Court Nomination Update: Potential Justice Offers a Counterpoint in Chicago
By NEIL A. LEWIS, New York Times WASHINGTON — When President Bill Clinton had a rare opportunity in 1995 for a Democratic president to fill a vacancy on the federal appeals court based in Chicago, a bastion of conservative thinking, he received an unusually strong recommendation from Senator Paul Simon. Mr. Simon, an outspoken liberal from Illinois who…
Read MoreIn Iraq, a Story of Rape, Shame and ‘Honor Killing’
After prison guards assaulted an Iraqi woman, she turned to her brother for help. But he — and society — failed her. By Tina Susman and Caesar Ahmed, LA Times Reporting from Baghdad — Sometimes, it’s the forbidden stories, the ones people are afraid to tell in full, the ones that emerge only in fragments,…
Read MoreISSUE UPDATE: Congress Considering Presidential Commission on Women
By Brandy Bailey, ElectWomen Magazine Contributor A Presidential Commission on Women is one step closer to becoming a reality. On April 2nd, Representative Jackie Speier (D-California) introduced legislation regarding the creation of such a Commission that is now moving through Congress. If approved, the Commission will be responsible for conducting an independent review of the…
Read MoreNEWS:ElectWomen Magazine Announces Job Bank and Consultants Page
In further support of women candidates, ElectWomen Magazine is creating a job bank and consultants page to connect job seekers and consulting resources with female political campaigns. ElectWomen Magazine is an online media site dedicated to providing resources and information for women candidates and their supporters, as well as sharing stories and important women’s political…
Read MoreWhy It Needs to be A Woman
By Julie Menin, The Huffington Post Much is being made of the historic opportunity for President Barack Obama to appoint a woman to the Supreme Court to replace Justice Souter. Articles are trumpeting the tremendous number of women judges and lawyers, without concomitantly questioning why we don’t see more women at the top echelons…
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