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Women Deliver Powerful Messages at College Commencements
As the 2009 college and university commencement season comes to a close, ElectWomen Magazine highlights some of the women who delivered speeches across the United States. President of Ireland, Mary McAleese, Mount Holyoke College “Over 40 years ago, when I was in my midteens, I announced at home that I had decided to become a…
Read MoreMissouri Women Have The Sue Shear Institute on Their Side
By Kathy Groob, Publisher ElectWomen Magazine For the past 11 years, Missouri women have had a strong advocate on their side. The Sue Shear Institute for Women in Public Life at the University of Missouri is working to put more women in public office, on boards and commissions and in leadership positions. “Women do a…
Read MoreSotomayor Attacked for Membership in Women’s Networking Group
Sotomayor Defends Ties to Association By CHARLIE SAVAGE and DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK, New York Times WASHINGTON — Judge Sonia Sotomayor on Monday defended her membership in an all-female networking club, telling senators preparing for her Supreme Court confirmation hearing that the group did not discriminate in an inappropriate way. Judge Sotomayor made the remarks in a cover letter for 10 documents the White House…
Read MorePOLITICS MAGAZINE CAMPAIGN CONFERENCE: Women in Politics
Politics Magazine hosted its annual campaign conference in Washington, D.C. titled The Art of Political Campaigning. Dozens of campaign workshop sessions were offered throughout the three-day conference. ElectWomen Magazine publisher, Kathy Groob, participated on the Women in Politics panel which has been only offered twice in the history of the campaign conference. Kathy Groob offered…
Read MoreWomen Excluded from New York Senate Clubhouse Fight
Scant Role for Women in Albany Mess By SUSAN DOMINUS, New York Times Locked out of their chamber after staging a leadership coup by nabbing the support of two Democrats, New York State’s Republican senators let themselves back in Thursday afternoon apparently with the use of, as The New York Times put it, “a mysterious…
Read MoreMy Brief Life as a Woman
By DANA JENNINGS (Lonnie Schlein/The New York Times) As my wife and I sat on the couch one night this past winter, reading and half-watching the inevitable HGTV, I started sweating hard and my face got so fevered and flushed that I felt as if I were peering into an oven. I turned to Deb…
Read MoreGloria Steinem Keynotes Minnesota Womenwinning Event
By Kathy Groob, Publisher ElectWomen Magazine Over 1,200 Minnesota men and women came together for for lunch on Monday, June 15th for the annual fundraiser sponsored by Womenwinning – the Minnesota Women’s Campaign Fund. Multi-generations came together – mothers, daughters, grandmothers, sisters and friends to hear the message that feminist movement leader Gloria Steinem will…
Read MoreOhio NEW Leadership Program to Inspire College Women – June 15-19
NEW Leadership is designed to address the historical and contemporary underrepresentation of women in politics. While women have always been politically active, their numbers in elective and appointed office are surprisingly low. Women hold only a small number of the seats in the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate and less than a quarter of…
Read MoreTHIS WEEK – The Art of Political Campaigning, Washington, D.C.
The Art of Political Campaigning begins Thursday this week as Campaigns & Elections (Politics Magazine) hosts its annual three-day campaign training program that has trained more than 10,000 politicos around the world. ElectWomen Magazine will be featured with Kathy Groob, EW Publisher, speaking on a panel to discuss women’s campaign issues on Friday, June 12th…
Read MoreDebate on Whether Female Judges Decide Differently Arises Anew
By NEIL A. LEWIS, New York Times Sandra Day O’Connor, the first woman to serve on the Supreme Court, is often quoted as saying that a wise female judge will come to the same conclusion as a wise male judge. But the opposing argument was bolstered forcefully in April by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, currently…
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