by Patricia Yarberry Allen The economic news is dreadful.  Madoff stories are everywhere.  Winter blizzards are coming down from Palin's home state to freeze all the voters who dissed her in the election.   But there is always Paris and there will always be fashion.

The following note just landed in the email boxes of WVFC's editor and publisher. We were both delighted, and agreed that it had to be shared. In a way, attorney Mary Faucher has written a manifesto for us. This is neither a question nor a suggestion, but rather a note to say: “Keep up the [...]

"My Rosa Parks Moment"  Jill Nelson, 56, had thought herself incapable of being swept away by fuss like inaugural balls.  She's written for the New York Times, the Washington Post, and Essence, as well as two memoirs.  Volunteer Slavery: My Authentic Negro Experience, about her experience writing for the Washington Post, and Straight, No Chaser: [...]

One of the more vivid memories of my childhood: I am nine years old, walking down the middle of my one block-long street in Bethesda, Maryland with my neighbor and friend Carol. We‘re telling each other how much we wished we were boys.  All the things boys could do were so appealing to us then—sports, [...]

When Hillary Clinton left the U.S. Senate to become Secretary of State on the 21st, the Senate was briefly one woman short. However, with this weekend's appointment of Albany-area Representative Kirsten Gillibrand to replace her, there is once again a female Senator from New York, restoring us to a total of 17 women in the [...]

These are immutable facts.  Kirsten Gillibrand was born in 1966.  She graduated from Dartmouth.  She is a woman.  And one thing more: We are in a laboratory now. This is going to be a test of walking the walk, not talking the talk.  And a test of women of a certain stripe to see if [...]

WVFC is still buzzing about the choice of 42-year-old Kirsten Gillibrand to be the next Senator from New York. To accompany our interview of her, above, here are some links of commentary by others, as well as  the transcript of her remarks and those by New York Governor David Paterson. Time Magazine’s profile notes that [...]

With today’s news that Rep. Kirsten Gillibrand has been appointed to the Senate seat vacated by Secretary of State Clinton, we were doubly proud that the Congresswoman gave WVFC so much time last year. (Above, see her school the House Ethics Committee.) We’ve reprinted the interview below. What do WVFC readers feel about the idea [...]

by Cecilia Ford Last week, Women’s Voices For Change was invited to a screening of Last Chance Harvey, a movie that addresses the thorny issue of a woman of a certain age finding romance. This film, wonderfully played by two of Hollywood's most naturalistic actors, presents a pair of discouraged, disappointed, and downtrodden people who [...]

by Diane Vacca Hurtling toward catastrophe—certain death for himself, the 154 lives entrusted to him and a good many others, were he to crash into the densely packed houses below—Capt. Chesley B. Sullenberger III had the experience, the cool and the brains to make a series of decisions that left the passengers and crew of [...]