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Desperately Seeking Hillary
Women of France Calling Hillary Clinton for Support for International Movement The French network Femmes & Pouvoir – “Women & Power” – launches today its official invitation to Hillary Clinton to take part in the 2013 edition of its forum, in an attempt to create a broad and international movement to unite and strengthen women…
Read MoreBitchy Resting Face and female niceness: Why do women have to smile more than men?
Slate Magazine – Back in April, Slate V contributor Taylor Orci created a PSA video about a dire condition afflicting a subset of women: Bitchy Resting Face.* “That’s just my face” is the cri de coeur of the BRF sufferer, who looks pissed even when she’s not judging your outfit or dreaming up schemes against unsuspecting colleagues.…
Read MoreLindy Boggs Dead: Former Rep. Dies At 97
Huffington Post – WASHINGTON — Former Rep. Lindy Boggs, a plantation-born Louisianan who used her soft-spoken grace to fight for civil rights during nearly 18 years in Congress after succeeding her late husband in the House, died Saturday. She was 97. Boggs, who later served three years as ambassador to the Vatican during the Clinton…
Read MoreHPV Vaccine Not Reaching Enough Girls, C.D.C. Says
By SABRINA TAVERNISE,New York Times – The very low vaccination rate for teenage girls against the human papillomavirus — the most common sexually transmitted infection and a principal cause of cervical cancer — did not improve at all from 2011 to 2012, and health officials on Thursday said a survey found that doctors were often failing…
Read MoreSpecial Election Gives L.A. City Council Its Only Woman
Although 54% of Los Angeles residents are women, none of them held seats on the 15-member city council—until today. Nury Martinez defeated (pdf) Cindy Montanez in a runoff for the Sixth District seat to re-establish a female presence on the council that has been historically thin and intermittent at best. Only 17 women have been…
Read MoreMichelle Nunn Enters 2014 Georgia Senate Race
Huffington Post – CLARKSTON, Ga. — Georgia emerged as a battleground state Monday in the fight for control of the U.S. Senate as Democrat Michelle Nunn announced plans to run for her father’s old seat, joining a crowded field of Republican contenders and setting off what will likely be a fiercely contested and costly race.…
Read MoreThe Grimes Road Map to Defeat Mitch McConnell
By Kyle Trygstad, The Hill – For Democrats to win statewide in Kentucky, they must run up the score in urban areas without turning off voters in the state’s agricultural and coal counties. That’s as hard as it sounds — especially when a candidate can be painted by the competition as unsupportive of coal, one of…
Read MoreHelen Thomas, pioneering White House journalist, dies at 92
By Matthew DeLuca, Staff Writer, NBC News Famed White House journalist Helen Thomas has died at the age of 92. The Gridiron Club and Foundation, a journalistic organization in Washington, D.C., confirmed Thomas’ passing to NBC News on Saturday. Thomas died on Saturday morning at her Washington apartment after a long illness, the club said…
Read MoreAlison Lundergan Grimes Wows Democratic Donors
By Howard Fineman for Huffington Post – WASHINGTON — Alison Lundergan Grimes stumbled out of the gate in Kentucky earlier this month when she announced that she would run against five-term incumbent Republican Mitch McConnell in next years Senate race. The 34-year-old Democratic secretary of state has the right blood lines: She’s the daughter of…
Read MoreNew Online Directory Launched to Promote Women Authors
WomenAuthorSpeakers.com connects women authors with organizations Covington, KY—Business marketing and consulting agency, November Strategies, has launched WomenAuthorSpeakers.com, a new online directory connecting women authors with organizations that are looking for speakers for events and workshops. The new site offers exciting, talented authors who are experts in their field, as speakers to organizations. All speaking and…
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