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Special Election Watch: Janice Hahn Picks Up Endorsements

June 1, 2011

BROWN, NEWSOM ENDORSE JANICE HAHN FOR CONGRESS – Democratic leaders unite to support Hahn, echo call for green jobs, clean energy, and ending wars abroad. Janice Hahn announced a bevy of endorsements from…

Obama Campaign of 2012: Not such a boys’ club

June 1, 2011

POLITICO- The 2008 Obama campaign may have epitomized racial diversity, but gender was another story. While Hillary Clinton was defining a new place for women in politics two decades after a woman ran…

League of Women Voters: Still Relevant….Needed Now More Than Ever

May 31, 2011

By Kathy Groob, Founder ElectWomen.com – The League of Women Voters, a nonpartisan political organization, has fought since 1920 to improve our systems of government and impact public policies through citizen education…

Young Egyptian Female Demonstrators Subjected to Virginity Tests

May 31, 2011

Cairo (CNN) — A senior Egyptian general admits that “virginity checks” were performed on women arrested at a demonstration this spring, the first such admission after previous denials by military authorities. The…

Female Physicians Changing the Politics of Medicine

May 30, 2011

New York Times – AUGUSTA, Me. — With Republicans in complete control of Maine’s state government for the first time since 1962, State Senator Lois A. Snowe-Mello offered a bill in February to…

Remembering all veterans; including women who have died in combat

May 30, 2011

On Memorial Day, traditionally the male heroes are remembered and honored on Memorial Day, but history shows that women have been dying in United States combat missions since The Civil War. Retired…

High School Student Amy Myers Takes Her Case to Television

May 28, 2011

New Jersey high school sophomore, Amy Myers, who in April challenged Representative Michele Bachmann to a debate or fact test on the U.S. Constitution, appeared this evening on MSNBC on The Last…