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Emerge Kentucky Grad Elisabeth Jensen Enters Race for Congress
By Kathy Groob, Founder ElectWomen.com – Elisabeth Jensen is a Lexington Kentucky businesswoman who has a plan for her life. Her mission is to strengthen her community by making sure that families have a voice in our nation’s capitol. A mother of a special needs child, Elisabeth knows firsthand the struggle that families with loved…
Read MoreRuth’s not going anywhere
By Joan Biskupic, Huffington Post – WASHINGTON, July 4 (Reuters) – At age 80, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, leader of the U.S. Supreme Court’s liberal wing, says she is in excellent health, even lifting weights despite having cracked a pair of ribs again, and plans to stay several more years on the bench. In a Reuters…
Read MoreDomain Squatter Swipes Alison Grimes’ Senate Domains
By Kathy Groob, Founder ElectWomen.com – Beware of false campaign websites! Famous cybersquatter Michael Deutsch, has swooped up domain names for Alison Lundergan Grimes who announced this week that she will run for the U.S. Senate seat that Mitch McConnell now holds. GrimesforSenate.com and AlisonforSenate.com were both purchased by Michael Deutsch, a resident of Florida,…
Read MoreKentucky Secretary of State Alison Grimes to Challenge Mitch McConnell for Senate Seat
LIVE- Frankfort, KY–Today Kentucky Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes announced she will challenge Senate Minority Leader Mitchell McConnell for U.S. Senate. McConnell has held the senate seat for nearly 30 years. The election will be held in 2014. Considered a rising star in the Democratic Party, Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes is Kentucky’s 76th…
Read MoreName It. Change It. Stands by Research That Says Women Candidates Hurt by Appearance Remarks
In a post at the Washington Post’s Wonkblog, two researchers claim to have a study that finds press coverage of candidates’ appearance is not a problem for women candidates. But their data and research is not available to the media or anyone else to evaluate their work. Our Name It. Change It. project has published research…
Read MoreWomen Winning Supports Betsy Hodges for Minneapolis Mayor
Womenwinning, Minnesota’s largest resource for women in politics, has endorsed City Council Member Betsy Hodges for Minneapolis Mayor. If elected in November, Hodges would become just the second woman elected (of 47 Mayors) in the city’s history. The organization is hosting a fundraising reception on Wednesday, June 26th from 5:30 until 7:00 p.m. to support…
Read MoreFeinstein, NSA’S top congressional defender, has built respect over decades of service
By Emily Heil, Washington Post – She stands before television cameras just hours after the news breaks that the U.S. government has been conducting a massive surveillance program, compiling a database of Americans’ phone records and monitoring foreign terrorism suspects’ Internet traffic. Sen. Dianne Feinstein says the top secret court order for telephone records of millions…
Read MoreRaising Ms. President Documentary Producers Seeking Funds to Complete Production
By Kathy Groob, Founder ElectWomen – Film director Kiley Parker of Kentucky has been working for three years to film a story about why more women do not run for office and what’s being done to change that. Her documentary film project, Raising Ms. President, speaks directly to the younger generation of women about the…
Read MoreArtist captures the essence of the struggle of women
By Satya Winkelman- Art has played a prominent role in society and influences how we should think. Edouard Manet’s “The Picnic” was the inspiration for me to paint “It’s Been No Picnic”. In Manet’s 1863 oil painting, the women are undressed, and the men clothed, which now seems the norm. Trained as a psychodramatist, I have…
Read MoreNASA’s New Class of Astronauts Gives Parity to Men and Women
By KATIE HILER, New York Times – One flies a fighter jet for the Marines. Another is an assistant professor of anesthesiology at Harvard Medical School. A third is a helicopter pilot for the Army. And the fourth leads the station in American Samoa of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration. They are the four women…
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