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.
Read More »Women and Health Care: Uninsurable at 50?
March 4, 2010 by Chris Lombardi
As the health-insurance-reform battle rages in Washington, new research confirms what we already knew: women over 45 face unique challenges when it comes to paying for our health care.
Read More »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.
Read More »How To Begin a New Year at the Start of a New Decade, When Hope is Hard to Find
January 3, 2010 by Patricia Yarberry Allen
New Year’s resolutions are made and broken by most people soon after the list is made. It is often difficult to imagine how to make a resolution that will change [...]
Read More »Journalist Flouts Beijing, Part 2: “She’s got blood on her blade and her clothing smells of gunpowder”
December 15, 2009 by Diane Vacca
“She’s got blood on her blade, and her clothing smells of gunpowder,” wrote Chinese blogger Hecaitou after hearing of Hu Shuli’s resignation as editor of Caijing, China’s most important business [...]
Read More »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
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 [...]
Read More »Gail Collins: “Remember, this is cool! we did some amazing things!”
October 26, 2009 by Chris Lombardi
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 [...]
Read More »Susan Baida: eCareDiary, Building Community, and Sex in the Workplace
October 25, 2009 by Susan Baida
We at WVFC were thrilled to discover an essential new resource and “neighbor” on the World Wide Web: eCareDiary.com, an online community formed in late 2008 for those of us [...]
Read More »Nanette Lepore, Fern Mallis, Samanta Cortes Lead Fight to Save New York’s Garment District
October 21, 2009 by Women's Voices For Change
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 [...]
Read More »Wal-Mart Can Be Our Surprise Salvation: A two-part discussion of the retail giant’s health care potential
October 7, 2009 by Patricia Yarberry Allen
In America, we have 43 million Americans without health insurance.
Ultimately, the political infighting about our health care crisis isn’t the point. The possibility of solving it is. I am as [...]
