From the Trenches: Face to Face with an Old and Persistent Attitude

October 31, 2007 by Faith Childs

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by Faith Childs | bio
Inasmuch as we at Women’s Voices for Change are in the mind-changing business — trying to get women and others to think differently about menopause and [...]

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Teaching Title IX on the Field

October 31, 2007 by Women's Voices For Change

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Cheers to high school librarians Karen Huskey and Doréan Dow for coming up with a brilliant way to educate young female athletes about Title IX, the 35-year-old legislation that prohibits [...]

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Female Baby Boomers and the Retirement Gap

October 30, 2007 by Women's Voices For Change

Writing at Women’s eNews, Sarah Seltzer draws attention to the "retirement gap":
On Oct. 16, Kathleen Casey-Kirschling, a schoolteacher from New Jersey approaching her 62nd birthday, filed for Social Security retirement [...]

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Smoking Out Women’s Magazines: Rep. Capps Goes After Camel No. 9 Ads

October 29, 2007 by Elizabeth Hemmerdinger

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by Elizabeth Hemmerdinger | bio

Earlier this year, I wrote about the rolling out of Camel No. 9, the new Camel cigarette dressed up in pink and marketed to women. [...]

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Just a Couple of Middle-Aged Women …

October 26, 2007 by Laura Baudo Sillerman

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One went to a Roman Catholic High School and an all women’s college. She enjoys theater, tap and jazz dancing and cooking. She’s a big [...]

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WVFC Q&A with Presidential Candidate Hillary Clinton

October 25, 2007 by Women's Voices For Change

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Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton last month unveiled her health care plan and reached out to Women’s Voices for Change for an online Q&A about how the plan will benefit women [...]

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A Plan to Do Better

October 25, 2007 by Women's Voices For Change

by Hillary Rodham Clinton
Here is what we know: Our national health care system is broken. In 1994, 39 million people were uninsured. Today, some 47 million Americans wake up each [...]

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Conference of Candidates’ Spouses: Women as Architects of Change?

October 24, 2007 by Faith Childs

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It may be that Maria Shriver, former journalist, author and self-described "general assignment first lady," was correct when she asserted yesterday at a conference of candidates’ [...]

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When Sex and National Politics Collide, the Fallout is Women’s Health

October 24, 2007 by Women's Voices For Change

by Gloria Feldt
My goodness, I go away for a week and miss all sorts of happenings in the world where sex and politics collide.
I returned from my high school [...]

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Health Round-Up: Science of Sleep; Geraldine Ferraro on Healthcare Reform; Breast Cancer Studies; Good and Bad Advice on Weight Loss

October 24, 2007 by Women's Voices For Change

A special issue of this week’s Science Times examines research into the science of sleep. In addition to a story on the possible connection between sleep and memory, and this [...]

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