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I remember reading once that African-American girls have higher self-esteem than white girls their age. This was some time ago and might not be true. But I wondered if it was because they DON'T have those helpless princesses to measure themselves against. I...Filed under: Religion, Woman Up
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Filed under: Woman Up Filed under: Woman Up, Culture Filed under: Health Care, Woman Up Filed under: Woman Up Filed under: Health Care, Woman Up Filed under: Woman UpObama as Mr. Rogers: What the Christian Right Really Fears
Melinda, dear, I think you may be on to something. The partisanship you suspect in this insane railing against the President's speech to schoolchildren may come directly from a particular segment of the Right. One thing I love about Religious Right evangelicals is that they are so exquisitely attuned...
This Year’s Emmy Winner: Actresses With Curves
Was anyone but me shallow enough to notice that of the eight Emmy photos of women in the New York Times Monday morning, four didn't look anorexic or even real thin? (Not counting the pregnant Heidi Klum because pregnant doesn't count.) If you figure in...
Medicare For All: A Solution Right Under Our Noses
Author Theodore Roszak's brilliant idea for solving the health care reform problem gave me the biggest "Well, duh" moment I've had in years.
"Expand Medicare," he wrote in a lead editorial column in the Los Angeles Times this week. Enroll everyone.
Medicare is familiar to everyone....
How to Make Women’s Rights THE Issue of the 21st Century
"The big problem is [how] to define the protection of women's rights as the problem of the 21st century. If the world does that, [women's inequality] will become like the eradication of apartheid -- people will insist that it's wrong, it's wrong, it's wrong,...
The Older Uninsured Tax the Public, as Well as Hospitals
It's practically an accepted notion that people without health insurance are well taken care of by public hospitals, and thus many believe there's no need for a national health care plan.
Not so, according to a new study of uninsured Americans...
What Makes a Man Wash His Hands?
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A drug many of us know nothing of has spread across the country, according to a stunning