INFOGRAPHIC: Women and Business
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2012
SEX SELLS: Women of Togo use their bodies to affect reform
This week, Isabelle Ameganvi, the female leader of “Let’s Save Togo,” and a lawyer in her own right, stood before thousands of women and called on them to…withhold sex in order to get the […]
ROLE MODELS: Dr. Baucom dons princess helmet and rides kid’s bike to surgery
We GIRLFRIENDS are fortunate for doctors like Dr. Catherine Baucom, a surgical breast oncologist who wasn’t about to let a traffic shutdown affect her patient. Instead of giving in to the challenge, Baucom chose to […]
GIRLFRIEND OF THE WEEK: Brittany Wenger, 17, to Save Millions of Lives
You have to be able to accept failure and learn from it.” – Brittany Wenger I don’t even know Brittany Wenger personally, but I am bursting with pride. She probably won’t get a sweet endorsement […]
YOUR MOM SUCKS: WARNER BROS FAIL
Maybe being a mom has made me lose my sense of juvenile fun, but when I opened my Twitter today, this is what I saw: The problem with Twitter is that each tweet stands […]
SHAME KILLINGS HAVE NO HONOR
How is honor restored to a man when lights his wife on fire in front of her two daughters with the help of his parents? Is that really honorable? Did overpowering his wife of seven […]
Teen Tweets Names of Her CONVICTED Accusers and Faces Jail
Where is Gloria Allred!? Savannah Dietrich needs her media savvy, not to mention her media reach. Dietrich is a great lesson for all young girls and her story is all too familiar. According to the […]
GIRLFRIEND OF THE WEEK: Vicky Triponey Took on Paterno and Nearly Lost Everything
I grew up surrounded by strong women who spoke their mind, was impossible to manipulate and believed that doing what was right was non-negotiable. Those character traits, especially for a woman in the work place, […]
Which Country is the ONLY Country that Denies Women the Right to Compete in the Olympics?
Saudi Arabia will not be sending women to the Olympics as was first announced. In 1964, South Africa was banned from participating in the Olympics because of the country’s racial discrimination policies. Including black athletes […]
Ann Harris and her Glorious Life
Three decades ago, 70 year-old Ann Harris and her sister opened Ann’s Place in Akron, OH. According to 19 News in Akron, the two women worked across town at another restaurant and dreamed of the […]
More Than Two-Thirds of Women Believe Obama Can Crush Space Aliens
Sixty-eight percent of women who were polled by National Geographic believe that President Obama would be tougher than Mitt Romney on extra-terrestrials. That’s eight points more than the percent of women who actually went out […]
Why does this story make me so mad! Is it the mom or the teen offender?
Imagine going to McDonald’s with your three year-old daughter and you allow her to play in the indoor playground (I know yuk!). Then, out of nowhere a 13 year-old girl takes out scissors and cuts […]
A Letter to America’s Girls and their Moms
Dear Future Women Leaders: In 1940, a young boy named Birch Bayh sat at the breakfast table with his little sister listening to his father tell about his forthcoming congressional testimony. Their father was an […]
WHY THE NATIONAL ORGANIZATION OF WOMEN IS A FRAUD
When you choose to found a group with the moniker, the “National Organization of Women,” you should be a supporter of all women, not just the ones that agree with you. Otherwise, you need to […]
What Do You See in This Picture?
Shanghaiist.com posted the picture above with the following: “Speaking from a local hospital in her home county of Zhenping, Feng Jianmei said she had been forced to have the procedure by local family planning bureau […]