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Happy Women’s Equality Day
WOMEN’S EQUALITY DAY EDITORIAL from The Tennessean Newspaper, by Sandra Bennett, August, 2008 August 26th is National Women’s Equality Day, an opportunity to reflect on and salute the women who worked so tirelessly to give the women of today the right to vote. The work began in Senaca Falls, New York in 1848 and ended…
Read MorePINK POLITICS Message Comes To West Virginia
Author Kathy Groob to Speak at the West Virginia Federation of Democratic Women’s Annual Meeting Covington, KY—Political consultant, founder of ElectWomen, Kentucky-native Kathy Groob will be speaking this weekend at the West Virginia Federation of Democratic Women’s annual meeting in Charleston, WVa. Groob will speak at a dinner on Saturday evening, August 25, 2012. Tapping…
Read MoreDemocrats Announce 10 Speakers for National Convention – 10 Women!
Huffington Post – The Democratic National Convention Committee Wednesday announced a lineup of convention speakers who will further solidify the party’s standing with female voters. The list, passed along by a source from the committee, includes the following names: Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin. Former Assistant Secretary, U.S. Department of Veterans, Affairs Tammy Duckworth. Sandra Fluke,…
Read MoreShocker: Rape can make you pregnant.
Dr. Aaron Carroll for CNN – Rep. Todd Akin made news this weekend by announcing that pregnancy from “legitimate rape” is rare. He further argued that physicians had told him that women who were traumatized in such a way had biological things happen in their bodies to “shut down” the “whole thing” so that fertilization…
Read MoreCNN’s Crowley to be first woman in two decades to moderate presidential debate
(CNN) – Candy Crowley, CNN’s chief political correspondent and host of “State of the Union,” will be the first woman in 20 years to moderate a general election presidential debate, the bipartisan Commission on Presidential Debates announced Monday. Crowley will host the second debate between President Barack Obama and his Republican challenger Mitt Romney on…
Read More2012 Project Marches On. Recording-setting primary victories for women.
The 2012 Project/Center for American Women and Politics – With primaries completed in most states, a record 154 women have been nominated for US House races in November. That total blows past the previous record of 141 nominees set in 2004 – with 10 more primaries still to come! Regional Summits The 2012 Project and…
Read MorePlanned Parenthood Pink Bus Truth Tour Sweeps the Nation
Planned Parenthood is fighting back against attacks waged by conservatives and politicians questioning their federal funding with a very public pink bus truth tour. “The anti-women’s health extremists behind the push to bar Planned Parenthood health centers from federal funding have been spreading lies. The Planned Parenthood Truth Team — staff, patients, and supporters — are there…
Read MoreRemembering Helen Gurley Brown – Gave ‘Single Girl’ a Life in Full (Sex, Sex, Sex)
New York Times – Helen Gurley Brown, who as the author of “Sex and the Single Girl” shocked early-1960s America with the news that unmarried women not only had sex but thoroughly enjoyed it — and who as the editor of Cosmopolitan magazine spent the next three decades telling those women precisely how to enjoy…
Read MoreOlympics 2012: Games Provide US Women Rare Chance to Shine
Bleacher Report – In the United States, sports headlines are dominated by male athletes. However, the 2012 Olympics have provided women with an opportunity to finally get the spotlight they deserve. With over two-thirds of the events completed, the females are the ones carrying Team USA. Women have won 48 of the 82 total medals…
Read MoreHigh School Freshman Tells the Truth on Women in Politics
Why America Needs More Young Democratic Women by Guest Blogger Emily Spangler, high school freshman It’s 2012, yet women’s health is being threatened by bad legislation, the percentage of women in Congress stands at an appallingly low number of 16.8 percent and women politicians are still judged on what they look like rather than what they have…
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