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Op-ed by Leymah Gbowee, for The Daily Beast – Nobel Peace Prize winner Leymah Gbowee says it’s time to stand up and demand that we protect the children of the world from a culture of violence. I read with dismay and immense pain in my heart and the pit of my stomach the horrific shooting…

By JODI RUDOREN, New York Times – JERUSALEM — The face-off at the security gate outside the Western Wall one Friday this month was familiar: for more than two decades, women have been making a monthly pilgrimage to pray at one of Judaism’s holiest sites in a manner traditionally preserved for men, and the police have stopped…

By CHOE SANG-HUN NEW YORK TIMES – SEOUL, South Korea — With the election of Park Geun-hye as president on Wednesday, South Korea extended the tenure of its staunchly pro-American governing party and handed power to the daughter of South Korea’s longest-ruling dictator, the first woman to win the post in a deeply patriarchal part of Asia. Voters appeared to…

Huffington Post – WASHINGTON — Maryland Sen. Barbara Mikulski is set to become the first woman to chair the prestigious Senate Appropriations Committee, a position left open this week by the death of Hawaii Sen. Daniel Inouye. A Democrat, Mikulski was first elected to the Senate in 1986 after serving 10 years in the House.…

Name It. Change It., a project of The Women’s Media Center and She Should Run, has released our annual awards for the Most Sexist Media Coverage of Women Candidates and Politicians in the 2012 Election and our 2012 Election Report. “With these awards, we hope the media will wake up and smell the sexism that…

NBC NEWS – Embattled U.N. envoy Susan Rice is dropping out of the running to be the next secretary of state after months of criticism over her Benghazi comments, she told NBC News on Thursday. “If nominated, I am now convinced that the confirmation process would be lengthy, disruptive and costly – to you and to…

Congresswoman Terri A. Sewell Named to House Financial Services Committee for the 113th Congress Washington, DC- Congresswoman Terri A. Sewell was named to the powerful House Committee on Financial Services for the 113th Congress by House Democratic Leadership and her colleagues. The House Financial Services Committee has jurisdiction over the financial services and housing sectors,…

By Paula Xanthopoulou – Sincerest congratulations to those women who won their hard-fought races!  Each and every one had to run under circumstances not faced by their male counterparts… Lots has been written about the 2012 General Election results for women.  Some reports have referred to the “record number” of women who will be in the…

By GAIL COLLINS, New York Times You may have heard that there are going to be 20 women in the Senate next year. I’ve been trying to figure out what that means. Well, it means one-fifth. Whoop-di-do. Still, up to now there have only been 39 women senators in all of American history. In 2001, the…

By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF for The New York Times Looking for an unusual holiday gift? How about a $60 trio of rabbits to a family in Haiti in the name of someone special? Bunnies raise a farming family’s income because they, well, reproduce like rabbits — six litters a year! Heifer International arranges the gift on its…