Unemployed Over 50: A View from the Ground

March 9, 2010 by Diane Vacca

WVFC’s Diane Vacca profiles one woman who brings to life all those numbing headlines about job loss.

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The 10 Worst Places for Women to Work

March 1, 2010 by Douglas A. McIntyre

No women on the corporate board, no women in senior management? Take your career elsewhere, writes Douglas A. McIntyre, who spotlights some of the worst corporate offenders.

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Barbie Goes Geek, but Silicon Valley Women Lose Ground

February 24, 2010 by Rachel Rawlings

The eternal blond has gone hi-tech geek, complete with Bluetooth headset and netbook. But in Silicon Valley, the news is not good.

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A Special Assignment

December 3, 2009 by Julie Danis

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Special work assignments usually offer special experiences. Like the time I cooked and test-marketed new hamburger sandwiches — mushroom Swiss and pizza barbecue — as part of a promotion for [...]

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Health Mix: Stumbling Onto A Female Viagra?; New Mammogram Guidelines Confuse, Enrage; Michelle Obama on Older Women And Health Care Reform

November 16, 2009 by Women's Voices For Change

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Equality with Viagra? We don’t know about you, but WVFC was more than a little startled to learn that there’s an organization called the “European Society for Sexual Medicine.” We’ve [...]

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Gail Collins: “Remember, this is cool! we did some amazing things!”

October 26, 2009 by Chris Lombardi

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The Constitution Center in Philadelphia, perhaps best known in recent years as the site of President Obama’s iconic speech on race, was packed this past Monday night. The two women [...]

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Ten Questions for Lisa Genova

October 26, 2009 by Women's Voices For Change

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1.  What are you working on now?
I’m writing my second novel, Left Neglected. This is a story about a woman in her mid-thirties who is like so many women I [...]

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Poetry Friday: Lisa Russ Spaar

October 22, 2009 by Women's Voices For Change

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Sometimes it feels as if all the buzz in literature, especially poetry, is about youth. Who won the Yale Younger Poets Award? The XYZ Fellowship for Writers Under Thirty? That’s [...]

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Nanette Lepore, Fern Mallis, Samanta Cortes Lead Fight to Save New York’s Garment District

October 21, 2009 by Women's Voices For Change

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Some WVFC readers might remember a Nanette Lepore fashion catwalk we embedded last year for one of our Pat Allen’s posts; the very last dress in it, after all the [...]

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Wal-Mart: Our Surprise Salvation, Part II

October 8, 2009 by Patricia Yarberry Allen

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Never one to shrink from audacity, Dr Pat, our Medical Mentor and Wise Woman, yesterday called for recognition that Wal-Mart can be the solution to our health care crisis. Here [...]

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