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Today’s Talk Topic: Climate Change—the Apathy of the Enlightened

By Women's Voices For Change

Humans have a “psychological capacity to know something and live as if we don’t know it,” explains a psychologist/economist who is alarmed at our lack of alarm about the cataclysm to come.

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Today’s Talk Topic: Inspired by a Working Mom

By Women's Voices For Change

The daughters of working moms have a statistically significant advantage, in terms of education and career prospects, over the daughters of stay-at-home moms, a new study has found.

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Today’s Talk Topic: “The World Is Not Falling Apart”

By Women's Voices For Change

Despite the appalling violence, civil wars, and religious hostilities that beset the world, a study by two social scientists concludes that we live in relatively peaceful times.

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Today’s Talk Topic: Christmastime for “Heathens”

By Women's Voices For Change

How do the many and varied non-Christians in New York City feel about the long approach to Christmas?

Health

Today’s Talk Topic: Strangers on a Train

By Women's Voices For Change

Say you’re on a commuter train. You could talk to the stranger beside you or you could haul out your smartphone to signal “Do not bother me.” Which is more likely to make you feel better?

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Veteran’s Day Talk Topic: Dawn Seymour of the Flying Fortresses

By Women's Voices For Change

Now 97, Dawn Seymour was a pioneer American female military pilot. Indeed, she was one of the "lucky 13" women who flew the B-17 as a member of the Women's Auxiliary Service during World War II.

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Today’s Talk Topic: Squealing Like a Schoolgirl

By Women's Voices For Change

Who’d have believed that the insult girl (as in “You throw like a girl,” “You run like a girl,” or—the worst—“You’re a girl”) would ever have serious consequences for the taunter?

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Today’s Talk Topic: One Man’s Praise of a Strong Woman

By Women's Voices For Change

"She’s resolute and vulnerable, incisive and responsive, rapturous and bleak, angry and funny . . ." The dance critic of "The New York Times" pays tribute to the extraordinary prima ballerina Wendy Whelan, who retired last week.

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Today’s Talk Topic: Two Words for the Clueless

By Women's Voices For Change

A corporate leader, in an attempt to give women employees good advice, betrays how little he knows about sex discrimination in the workplace.

Fashion & Beauty

Today’s Talk Topic: Turning Into an Older Woman

By Women's Voices For Change

Throughout this series [of photographs], we watch these women age, undergoing life’s most humbling experience. While many of us can, when pressed, name things we are grateful to Time for bestowing upon us, the lines bracketing our mouths and the loosening of our skin are not among them.

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Today’s Talk Topic: Women, Girls, and the ‘Slow Violence’ of the Syrian Civil War

By Women's Voices For Change

"There is also a great slab of silent suffering caused by Syria's civil war that goes comparatively unreported because it is, well, just too mundane to make juicy headlines. . . .This is a kind of human 'slow violence' being done to an entire generation of Middle Eastern women and children who are now growing up as refugees."

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Today’s Talk Topic: Our Labor Day Heroine—Mother Jones

By Women's Voices For Change

Typically clad in a black dress, her face framed by a lace collar and black hat, the barely five-foot tall Mother Jones was a fearless orator . . . . Her energy and passion inspired men half her age into action and compelled their wives and daughters to join in the struggle.

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Today’s Talk Topic: Wage Gap Erased!

By Women's Voices For Change

A deal that will close a $7,000-per-year pay gap between male and female New York City safety agents. (Guess which group earned the lower salary?)

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Today’s Talk Topic: Riding in the World’s Toughest Horse Race at 61

By Women's Voices For Change

During a grueling eight-day, 625-mile race in Mongolia Barbara Smith rode 28 semi-wild ponies on a route that traces Genghis Khan’s legendary long-distance horse-relay postal system, devised in 1224.

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Today’s Talk Topic: Three Cheers (Each) for These Feisty Females

By Women's Voices For Change

Women’s path is still so littered with traditional obstacles that we at "Women’s Voices" feel a jolt of admiration and satisfaction whenever we read of another female “first.”

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Tag Archives : Today’s Talk Topic

Today’s Talk Topic: Climate Change—the Apathy of the Enlightened

Today’s Talk Topic: Inspired by a Working Mom

Today’s Talk Topic: “The World Is Not Falling Apart”

Today’s Talk Topic: Christmastime for “Heathens”

Today’s Talk Topic: Strangers on a Train

Veteran’s Day Talk Topic: Dawn Seymour of the Flying Fortresses

Today’s Talk Topic: Squealing Like a Schoolgirl

Today’s Talk Topic: One Man’s Praise of a Strong Woman

Today’s Talk Topic: Two Words for the Clueless

Today’s Talk Topic: Turning Into an Older Woman

Today’s Talk Topic: Women, Girls, and the ‘Slow Violence’ of the Syrian Civil War

Today’s Talk Topic: Our Labor Day Heroine—Mother Jones

Today’s Talk Topic: Wage Gap Erased!

Today’s Talk Topic: Riding in the World’s Toughest Horse Race at 61

Today’s Talk Topic: Three Cheers (Each) for These Feisty Females

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