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Gloria Feldt leads initiative to teach women to embrace power
“Women like power but have difficulty with it,” says women’s advocate and NY Times best-selling author Gloria Feldt. She and former investment banker Amy Litzenberger have launched “Take The Lead,” the first comprehensive initiative to prepare and propel women to half of all top leadership positions by 2025. “This is the moment,” says Feldt. Core to the Take The Lead strategy…
Read MoreShe did it! Helene Neville finishes her inspiring run from Canada to Mexico on June 15th
Nurse and healthy living advocate, Helene Neville crossed the finish line in Mexico on Saturday, June 15, 2013 completing her incredible journey, running across the country to inspire others. Helene Neville, an American nurse and fitness coach, began running seriously after a battle with cancer in the 1990s. Helene started running marathons as close as nearby…
Read MoreReady for Hillary Surges Forward
Ready for Hillary Political Action Committee surges forward Ready for Hillary is the nation’s premier organization urging former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to run for president in 2016 and laying the groundwork of support for her potential candidacy. We are Americans of all walks of life in all 50 states who are mobilizing so…
Read MoreEmerge Kentucky Graduate, Democrat Elisabeth Jensen to run in 6th Congressional District
by Ryan Alessi – Elisabeth Jensen, a Lexington Democrat and education advocate, confirmed to Pure Politics that she will run for Congress next year in Central Kentucky’s 6th District for the chance to challenge freshman Republican Congressman Andy Barr. Jensen said in an interview over the weekend that she will hold her first fundraiser July 8,…
Read MoreHillary Clinton Takes the Stage, and the Speculation Heats Up
By RAYMOND HERNANDEZ, New York Times – She’s come home. After a temporary tour as a lieutenant in President Obama’s army, Hillary Rodham Clinton rejoined the Clinton family business on Thursday and went right to work on one of its main objectives: advancing the Clinton brand.Mrs. Clinton appeared alongside her husband, Bill Clinton, in a…
Read MoreCommemorating the 50th Anniversary of the Equal Pay Act Monday, June 10th
What Is the Equal Pay Act? Equal pay for equal work. The Equal Pay Act of 1963, an amendment to the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), prohibits employers from paying unequal wages, based on gender. Men and women employed in the same establishment, doing substantially equal work must be paid the same wages. Title VII of the…
Read MorePussy Riot Takes Manhattan, Quietly
By MELENA RYZIK, New York Times – If there is ignominy in being anonymous at the premiere of your own movie, the ladies of Pussy Riot didn’t show it. There they were, without their trademark bright balaclavas, sitting at the back of the Landmark Sunshine Cinema on the Lower East Side on Wednesday evening, awaiting the…
Read MoreTop Military Officers Resist Proposal to Take Sexual Assault Cases Out of Chain of Command
By LUIS MARTINEZ, ABC News – The nation’s top military leaders have told Congress they have reservations about legislation that would remove commanders from the process of prosecuting sexual assault cases because, they say, it could ruin order and discipline in the ranks. It’s a highly contentious issue: Recent high profile-incidents and new statistics indicating that…
Read MoreWomen in the Senate Confront the Military on Sex Assaults
By JENNIFER STEINHAUER, The New York Times – WASHINGTON — Senator Claire McCaskill wandered down the dais at the Senate Armed Services Committee’s first hearing of the year and noticed a startling tableau: women to the left, women to the right. Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, a veteran Republican member of one of the Senate’s…
Read More2014 Spotlight: MASS Auditor Suzanne Bump
An advocate for more women in public office, Massachusetts Auditor Suzanne Bump will fight for her own reelection next year or maybe even a higher office. Auditor Bump was elected in 2010 as the state’s first female auditor, one of 14 female state auditors in the United States and only one of four who have…
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