The Women Who Were First by Grit and Grace
“What does it take to be the first female anything? It takes grit and it takes grace,” Meryl Streep says. We agree.
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Tag Archives : Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton’s Nomination: Historic Moment for Women (In the News)
The 19th Amendment to the Constitution, giving women the right to vote, was ratified on Aug. 18, 1920. And 96 years later, Clinton has broken a political glass ceiling.
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Hostility and the Female Head of State (In the News)
If Hillary Clinton is elected, Malcolm Gladwell wonders, will she be subjected to the kind of chilling sexist commentary unleashed on former Australian prime minister Julia Gillian?
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It Can (Finally) Happen Here
By Grace Graupe-Pillard
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"I distinctly remember feeling envy mixed with frustration and fierce anger when I realized that boys had advantages available to them in the universe outside of 875 W.180th Street, Apartment 1B that were not accessible to me.”
Historic Moment for Women Across the Political Spectrum (In the News)
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.
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Wednesday 5: The Best of the Internet This Week
Fifty essential feminist films curated by Flavorwire; Viola Davis as the leading lady we've all known her to be; activists doctor CoverGirl's "Get Your Game Face On" ad to transform it into a tool against domestic violence; Katie Nolan of Fox Sports shares some of the more insightful and thoughtful commentaries on the NFL's domestic violence cancer; and surprising and not so surprising answers to where nine now-powerful women were when they were 23.
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Wednesday 5: Powerful Women and their Magazine Covers, Patti Smith, More
In this week's Wednesday 5: magazine covers that got it right when depicting powerful women; how presidents talk about women in SOTU speeches; an in-depth interview with Patti Smith; an online site that connects neighbor with neighbor—even in New York City; and a young girl in Afghanistan uses boxing as an avenue to freedom.
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Wednesday 5: Jane Austen; Susan Brownmiller; Barbara Walters; and Hillary Clinton
Judith Ross reminds us that holiday traditions aren't just for kids; notable women who have died are less likely to make the obituaries than notable men; a reminder that Jane Austen's novels were about women's empowerment; Susan Brownmiller reflects on changing the discourse on rape; and Barbara Walters asks Hillary Clinton about her hair.
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Fat Chance: What If An Overweight Woman Ran For Office?
By Janet Golden and Roz Warren
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Can you imagine what would happen if a woman as heavy as Chris Christie ran for President? Press coverage about her size would be nonstop. Her eating and exercise habits would be critiqued. The media would scream every time she was photographed with a donut in her hand.
Video Pick: Angela Merkel Atop Forbes Powerful Women List
We're always glad for Forbes' annual release of the100 Most Powerful Women in the World; invariably, they turn out to be mostly nominees for WVFC's list of Women who Should Run the World.
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The Wednesday Five: Erasing Hillary, Freedom Riders, Tented Rooms, and Inspiration for Skinny Jeans (VIDEO)
Bloggers get inspiration from Lauren Hutton, were outraged when Hillary Clinton was Photoshopped out of a news photo, and looked forward to a movie about 1961.
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Video Pick: Hillary Clinton on Osama Bin Laden’s Death
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has known Osama bin Laden's name longer than most in public life. Now, her brief also includes the Arab spring and the complex legacy of the "war on terror." We see much of it in her statement about this historic moment.
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Video Pick: Madeleine Albright
The former Secretary of State on why it's good for women to be diplomats, how Saddam Hussein inspired her book Read My Pins: Stories From a Diplomat's Jewel Box, and why "there's a special hell in heaven for women who don't help other women."
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Clinton, Power, Rice: Three Women Swing U.S. Policy on Libya (VIDEO)
By Diane Vacca
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The key players who brought about the sharp shift in policy were women. For a veteran of the feminist battles of the 1960s and ’70s, that disclosure was stunning.
Video Pick: Newsweek’s Relaunch Features Hillary Clinton as Woman Who Shakes the World
Who else would mogul editor Tina Brown choose to launch her transformed Newsweek but our Secretary of State? Watch Brown, Christiane Amanpour, and Nawal el-Saadawi talk about how to shake the world.
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