Posts Tagged ‘women in politics’
Georgia Democratic Female Representative Proposes Vasectomy Bill
CNN – As members of Georgia’s House of Representatives debate whether to prohibit abortions for women more than 20 weeks pregnant, House Democrats introduced their own reproductive rights plan: No more vasectomies that leave “thousands of children … deprived of birth.” Rep. Yasmin Neal, a Democrat from the Atlanta suburb of Jonesboro, planned on Wednesday…
Read MoreFirst Responder Wanda Hammons Enters Race for Kentucky State Representative
By Kathy Groob, Publisher ElectWomen Magazine – With politics in her blood, Grant County native Wanda Crupper Hammons has filed to run for an open seat in the Kentucky State House of Representatives. For the past 20 years, the 61st House seat was held by Wanda’s friend, Royce Adams and prior to that, the seat…
Read MoreElizabeth Warren’s Race for Senate Tightens Up
Democrat Elizabeth Warren is neck and neck with Republican Sen. Scott Brown in the Massachusetts Senate race, according to a new poll released Tuesday. The poll, conducted by Massachusetts think tank MassINC for the Boston NPR station WBUR, finds that 46 percent of likely voters in the state said they would vote for Warren, while…
Read MoreCarolyn Maloney, Eleanor Holmes Norton walk out of contraception hearing
POLITICO – Two female Democratic lawmakers walked out of a House hearing on the Obama administration’s contraception compromise Thursday morning to protest the fact that only male witnesses were testifying. Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) and Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) left the hearing when House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) refused to…
Read More2013 Campaign Preview: New York City Speaker Christine Quinn Offers Agenda for City
The New York Times – Christine C. Quinn, simultaneously offering an agenda for the City Council and a preview of her mayoral campaign, proposed on Thursday to crack down on landlords whose buildings are deteriorating, to make kindergarten mandatory and to provide more job training for unemployed New Yorkers. Ms. Quinn, the Council speaker, touched in her annual State…
Read MoreIGNITE Seeks to Light a Flame for Future Women in Politics
By Kathy Groob, Publisher ElectWomen Magazine – While working to promote women candidates at EMILY’s List and Emerge America, Anne Moses believed there was a missing link to advancing the numbers for women in politics. “Someone needed to be reaching young women in high school and in college to build political ambition,” says Anne Moses,…
Read MoreUse Facebook to urge Facebook to put women on its board of directors
By Moira Forbes, ForbesWoman – The world’s most highly anticipated IPO is also calling attention to a problem that continues to plague corporate America: the lack of women on boards. Scheduled to go public in May, Facebook was founded on innovation and disruptive thinking – but the company has yet to appoint one woman to its seven-person board…
Read MoreThe last World War I veteran dies at 110. A woman!
New York Times – The last veteran of World War I was a waitress, and for 90 years no one knew her name. Florence Green, a member of Britain’s Royal Air Force who was afraid of flying, died in England on Saturday, two weeks shy of her 111th birthday. She was believed to have been the…
Read MoreCincinnati Mobilizing Women Event Highlights Need to Retain Women
By Kathy Groob, Publisher ElectWomen Magazine Political activist Jodine Grundy, Melissa Wideman and their committee of hosts shined a spotlight on Cincinnati women in politics at the Mobilizing Women 2012 event. The event featured three of the four Cincinnati state representatives who are women, all facing difficult re-election challenges due to redistricting. Last Friday evening…
Read MoreSenators Gillibrand and Boxer kick off movement to support women’s health rights
By Kathy Groob, Publisher ElectWomen Magazine – An initiative announced today by Senators Kirsten Gillibrand (D-New York) and Barbara Boxer (D-California) intends to rally supporters of women’s rights in the wake of Susan G. Komen debacle last week. One Million Strong for Women is asking people to sign up and join the effort to support women’s rights…
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