Say It Isn’t So: Steve Martin Off the Market

July 31, 2007 by Laura Baudo Sillerman

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Steve Martin is gone. The last of the Sensitive Men We Want to Rescue not only got married last weekend, he married a younger woman [...]

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Poetry: A New Voice for Dissent

July 31, 2007 by Marguerite Guzman Bouvard

In her study of human rights, Marguerite Guzmán Bouvard, an author and resident scholar at Brandeis University’s Women’s Studies Research Center Scholars Program, has discovered
that time and time again, it [...]

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Negotiating a Biased Business World: “This Isn’t About Fixing the Women”

July 30, 2007 by Women's Voices For Change

To understand how gender affects differences in starting salaries and pay raises, Linda C. Babcock, professor of economics at Carnegie Mellon University, constructed a very simple but very revealing experiment. [...]

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The High Cost of Gender Stereotyping

July 27, 2007 by Women's Voices For Change

Catalyst, the nonprofit research organization that works to expand opportunities for women and business, has released a new study on gender stereotyping at work and the "double-bind dilemmas" for women. [...]

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Quote of the Day

July 27, 2007 by Women's Voices For Change

"If you take The Ice Storm and The Crucible and Nixon – and even
Pleasantville, to an extent – you have the wife and mother who is holding
things together while also [...]

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Menopause Minute: Hot Flash Drug Not So Hot with FDA, Smoking Could Lead to Early Menopause and More on That Musical

July 25, 2007 by Women's Voices For Change

A weekly look at menopause and related issues in the news …
From the L.A. Times: "Patient treatment records from a large HMO show that the recent decline
in breast cancer rates [...]

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“Dr. John Butler’s Electro-Massage Machine”: A History of Manufacturing Female Pleasure

July 25, 2007 by Women's Voices For Change

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Before the steam iron, before the vacuum cleaner, we had vibrators.
They debuted in the early 1880s as a medical treatment for "hysteria."
They were subsequently introduced as a home medical appliance [...]

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Summer Reading: A Different Approach

July 24, 2007 by Faith Childs

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by Faith Childs
Conventional wisdom holds that we take to the lake house, beach or mountains with a pile of summer reading — light fare designed to entertain, to provide [...]

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Wearing Our Politics On Our Shorts

July 24, 2007 by Liz Smith

by Liz Smith
Hooray for the good doctor, who yesterday got it right in her critique of the audience that attended Wagner’s "Der Ring des Nibelungen" at Lincoln Center wearing shorts [...]

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The People’s Voices in the Presidential Debate

July 24, 2007 by Women's Voices For Change

"I think it’s terrific we’re up here arguing about who’s going to be
better for women, because isn’t that a nice change for everybody to
hear" — Sen. Hillary Clinton on who’s [...]

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