Switzerland had to be dragged up the steps of equality, kicking and screaming before it finally had a federal referendum allowing women’s suffrage in 1971. Although some cantons allowed women’s suffrage prior to that, much […]
Dear Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, How rude! Who does Harry Reid think he is calling you a “hottie” in front of an entire audience of politicos at Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s home. Asked to clarify his comments, […]
Billie Jean King won 12 Grand Slam singles titles, 16 Grand Slam women’s doubles titles, and 11 Grand Slam mixed doubles titles, she was the first woman in professional tennis to make over $100,000 a […]
That’s one of my favorite lines from “As Good as it Gets.” I’ve often wondered how much space is actually between sane and crazy. My guess is not much. In fact, I think that people […]
Belgium’s liberal MP, Daniel Bacquelaine, is a leading force in his country’s movement to ban women wearing burqas, “We cannot allow someone to claim the right to look at others without being seen.” To date, […]
Those are fighting words delivered by China’s Commerce Minister Chen Deming in an interview with Washington Post reporter, John Pomfret, regarding the U.S. administration’s challenge to China’s currency devaluation. What Chen doesn’t realize is that […]
Iran isn’t know for its compassion for women. These days, the public face of cruelty to women is Sakine Mohammadi Ashtiani, a woman who was accused of having an illicit relationship with two men while […]
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Take a good look at Marcia Powell’s face; look at her eyes. She never knew her mother or father and at the age of 14 ran away from her adoptive home and spent the next […]
You spend your entire life scraping and scratching for every opportunity, a difficult task after your father suddenly dies when you are just nine years old and your mother is tasked with being the sole […]
My daughter’s sixth grade class participates in an annual tradition in her school called “The Wax Museum.” The children choose a person/character they would like to represent, and then dress up during a special day […]
Is there a correlation between human rights abuses and women succeeding in the workplace? One would think not, but consider the recent Newsweek article, The Women Who Want to Run the World. What do we […]
“Operating Room Fistfight Leads to Botched Delivery,” – When I first read this AP headline I thought for sure the woman in labor had to be involved. Delivering a child is definitely not for the […]
I’m great at riddles. Let’s see, “What’s the difference between selling out your party’s values and the oldest profession?” Hmmm…this tricky tweet was posted on Joe Miller’s Twitter page (Senate hopeful from Alaska) and then […]
Talk about a bad penny, just when you think Levi Johnston, the father of Sarah Palin’s grandson, was out of the picture (all except for that reality show with him running for Mayor of Wasilla), […]
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