I am often surprised at the women who become the enablers of abusive partners, because so many of them believe they are quite the opposite. I’ve met women whose presentation to others is confident, even […]
According to IOL News, six women lost their lives today, April 7, 2011 in the Republic of Côte d’Ivoire’s capitol, Abidjan, at the hands of forces loyal to the embattled former President, Laurent Gbagbo. The […]
Cecylia Opika lived on this earth for eight decades. On April 1st, she was discovered by police officers in her three-story town home on the far side of Chicago dead. She had been dead for […]
What’s the biggest thing going viral on the web today? Graphic photos of a couple having sex on the roof of Waite Phillips Hall at the University of Southern California. According to the New York […]
Why does it always seem that big Goliaths are generally brought down by the “little guy” or girl in this case. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. is the largest private employer and grocery chain in the U.S. […]
It’s hard to believe that one business, the Triangle Shirtwaist Company, employed 600 people in 1911 to make one item – a shirtwaist – a tailored women’s shirt that was blousey at the top and […]
Call me a cynic, but I just don’t believe much good can come when the “Supreme Council of the Armed Forces” is running a country as it now is in Egypt, especially given that they […]
Sometimes it requires drastic measures in life if you want to be heard. Last Sunday afternoon in Riviera Beach, Florida, police received a call about a sexual assault. When they arrived, the police found the […]
Kelly Valen, author of The Twisted Sisterhood: The Dark Side Of Female Friendship Explored, wrote a stirring essay in 2007 for the New York Times entitled, My Sorority Pledge? I Swore Off Sisterhood. That essay […]
When it comes to women’s rights, you have to take out the party rhetoric. Michele Bachmann and Sarah Palin are Republicans FIRST, women’s advocates second. It’s one of the biggest reasons we can’t seem to […]
Make no mistake. From its very beginnings of International Working Women’s Day in 1911, March 8th was not meant for candy and flowers or even as a celebration of women. It was a means to […]
“A Saudi cleric finds himself in the hot seat after issuing a decree permitting unrelated women and men mingle so long as the guy drinks the woman’s breast milk.” Did I read that right? I […]
Why do the governors of Wisconsin and Ohio hate women and old people? I mean their support of bills to strip government unions of their collective bargaining power is focused squarely on teachers, 80 percent […]
My mother always said, “Show me your friends and I’ll tell you what you are.” I’m beginning to see what CNN is. The network that touted 24-hour news seems to have become nothing more than […]
Just a month after our GIRLFRIENDS’ Post, American Women are Being Poisoned, Should We Care, the governor of Maine issued a dire warning to women regarding the health effects of bisphenol A. “The only thing […]
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