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Filed under: Woman UpWhen Sarah Palin uses her new favorite word -- "feminists" -- to describe conservative women, she overlooks the fact feminists are often pro-choice. Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | C...
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Kamla Persad-Bissessar makes history in Caribbean nation of Trinidad and Tobago, following in the footsteps of other women pioneers in politics.

 

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Up is down, black is white, and men are the world's most oppressed minority.

That's why a group of brave souls have decided it's long past time for a new academic program to confront this oppression head on: Male Studies.

"This came out of the contentious business of gender studies,"...
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Here's some good news:

The Obama administration plans to change the so-called Title IX policy which governs gender equality in sports, eliminating what some women's rights supporters claim is a Bush-administration loophole in compliance, according to a senior White House official.

Before Bush, Title IX had three requirements:

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Those brave members of Congress who believe the biggest problems in health care are government-funded abortions, death panels, and lawsuits might want to take a look at this problem:

The report, titled "Deadly Delivery," notes that the likelihood of a woman's dying in childbirth in the U.S. is five times as...
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It's not exactly breaking news that there is a wage gap between men and women and between whites and people of color.

But a new study from the Insight Center for Community Economic Development reveals a shocking disparity in women's wealth:

Among the most startling revelations in the wealth data...
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This is good news...unless you're Phyllis Schlafly:

When Obama presented his multi-trillion dollar budget, he declared with great fanfare that he was calling for a freeze in discretionary spending...Now we learn that all feminist programs and organizations will also be exempted from the freeze. Instead, they will get what White House...
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Some good news for the women of Afghanistan:

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton spoke briefly yesterday about the need for Afghan women and girls to be involved in the transition of security to the Afghan military. Clinton made these remarks at an international conference yesterday in London on the subject of...
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Words fail:

Major General Anthony Cucolo, who is responsible for operations in northern Iraq, has issued a controversial new policy — which went into effect on Nov. 4 — that allows throwing women servicemembers on active duty in jail if they become pregnant:

Under the new policy, troops...
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After the fall of the Taliban everyone wanted to come and work for women’s rights, they were proud to say they were here to help Afghan women. Slowly, slowly this disappeared. Maybe the international community saw that we had two or three women in the cabinet, and thought, it’s ok, now they have...
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