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Feminists Urge Banning of Iran and Saudi Arabia from Olympics Because They Impose ‘Sexual Apartheid’

By Women's Voices For Change

For a woman in Iran, even entering a stadium is a crime: French feminists “cited the notorious 2014 example of Anglo-Iranian Ghoncheh Ghavami, who was imprisoned for five months in Iran’s infamous Evin prison for trying to attend a men’s volleyball game in the capital.”

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Historic Moment for Women Across the Political Spectrum (In the News)

By Women's Voices For Change

At Women’s Voices for Change, we don’t engage in partisan politics. But for women across the political spectrum, Hillary Clinton’s achievement of becoming the first woman to be the presumptive presidential nominee of a major political party is a truly historic moment.

Film & Television · News

Netflix Review: ‘The Ascent of Woman’ — Making Women Part of the Narrative

By Alexandra MacAaron

The series, 'The Ascent of Woman,' makes a compelling case that the way a society treats its women is indicative of not only its overall fairness, but also its economic success.

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Happy Birthday, Gloria Steinem, Unabashed Feminist! (In the News)

By Women's Voices For Change

"Feminism" has become a controversial, loaded term. A corrective from proud feminist Letty Cottin Pogrebin.

News · Politics

Focusing on Gender Parity for International Women’s Day

By Women's Voices For Change

The World Economic Forum estimates that gender parity around the world will not be achieved until the year 2133, or 117 years 11 months from now.

Film & Television

TV Review: ‘The Women’s List’ Is a Dose of Encouragement for All Women

By Carla Baranauckas

The tone of the documentary is not “I am woman hear me roar.” Instead, it is a collection of revealing mini-memoirs in which the pain of rejection, longing and loss, and the stress of complex lives are expressed in fifteen singular ways. It’s not always pretty, but it is real.

Film & Television

Relishing the Return of ‘Mad Men’

By Alexandra MacAaron

Why are the Mad Men so mad? Maybe because the women are evolving and they aren’t.

Lifestyle · Technology

Now Online: Nicole Hollander, Sylvia, and “Bad Girl Chats”

By Women's Voices For Change

The doyenne of feminist comic stips and her redoubtable creator have teamed up for a nonstop conversation.

Books · Lifestyle

NYC Alert: Nicole Hollander Speaks!

By Women's Voices For Change

Join the tart-tongued, ever-feminist cartoonist as she celebrates 30 years of "Sylvia" comic strips with a rare New York appearance.

Books · News · Politics

Gail Collins, Part 2: for women who have “waited” long enough

By Chris Lombardi

Gail Collins, author of When Everything Changed: The Amazing Story of American Women From 1960 to the Present, was on a book tour last week mostly to share her amazement at “that thing we did,” meaning the transformation of the role of American women. As part of the tour, Collins and interviewer Lynn Yeakel talked to a packed crowd at…

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

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 onstage, Lynn Yeakel and Gail Collins — Yeakel, a Drexel University professor and the woman who challenged Senator Arlen Specter in 1992, and Collins, the first female editor of The…

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Roman Polanski, It’s Not the 1970′s Anymore. Thank God.

By Chris Lombardi

This week’s arrest of Roman Polanski felt weirdly unsurprising. It fit somehow with all the flashbacks to 1969 the media’s treated us to this year — as that TIME cover put it, “From the Moon to Charles Manson.” What will the 1970s reminiscences be like, one wondered? Maybe like this. But who really remembers 1977? And what does anyone really…

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Congratulations, Justice Sotomayor!

By Women's Voices For Change

Today, Judge Sonia Sotomayor became Justice Sotomayor — the first Hispanic Supreme Court Justice. WVFC has been watching these weeks before her confirmation with great interest — with news blogs as President Obama chose her and a sharp commentary by Diane Vacca of the deep sexism in the media’s treatment of the third female Justice in history. Late last week,…

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News Mix: Fashion Over 40; Eliot Spitzer Sparks Feminist Review; “Freedom Sisters” – New Exhibit of Female Civil Rights Activists; Marketing and “Sex and the City”

By Womens Voices for Change

Fashion Over 40: British writer Ruth Sunderland, writing in The Guardian, wonders why it seems that only French women can be chic and serious. Postfeminism and Other Fairy Tales: Writing in The New York Times, Kate Zernike notes the response to Eliot Spitzer’s prostitution scandal and the divide over Democratic presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama: It’s not quite…

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Feminists Urge Banning of Iran and Saudi Arabia from Olympics Because They Impose ‘Sexual Apartheid’

Historic Moment for Women Across the Political Spectrum (In the News)

Netflix Review: ‘The Ascent of Woman’ — Making Women Part of the Narrative

Happy Birthday, Gloria Steinem, Unabashed Feminist! (In the News)

Focusing on Gender Parity for International Women’s Day

TV Review: ‘The Women’s List’ Is a Dose of Encouragement for All Women

Relishing the Return of ‘Mad Men’

Now Online: Nicole Hollander, Sylvia, and “Bad Girl Chats”

NYC Alert: Nicole Hollander Speaks!

Gail Collins, Part 2: for women who have “waited” long enough

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

Roman Polanski, It’s Not the 1970′s Anymore. Thank God.

Congratulations, Justice Sotomayor!

News Mix: Fashion Over 40; Eliot Spitzer Sparks Feminist Review; “Freedom Sisters” – New Exhibit of Female Civil Rights Activists; Marketing and “Sex and the City”

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