October 2011
34 posts
3 tags
3 tags
5 tags
5 tags
Female Fortune 500 CEOs At Record High →
With Mylan Pharmaceuticals’ announcement today that Heather Bresch — company president and daughter of West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin — would succeed outgoing CEO Robert Coury, the number of female CEOs on the Forbes Fortune 500 list reached 18, a new record.
4 tags
4 tags
Check this Org: Nobel Women's Initiative →
The Nobel Women’s Initiative supports women internationally, focusing on the three “pillars” below.
Women Forging Peace—We advocate building long-term peace supporting women who are engaged in nonviolence and other alternatives to ending war and militarism, and support the inclusion of women in peace negotiations and other peace building efforts.
Women Achieving Justice—We...
7 tags
Joan Didion and her new book about her struggle as... →
On Joan Didion as “soothsayer”:
By virtue of her age—just ahead of the baby-boomers, young enough to recognize them and old enough to see them clearly—Didion has made a career as a canary in the American coal mine. In the sixties, she observed, from the vital center, the dangers of the counterculture, and long before Woodstock. Beginning in the nineties, she anticipated the shallow...
5 tags
“Today’s the day I sing the National Anthem for game 4 of the World Series.”
– me (via zooeydeschanel)
6 tags
7 tags
5 tags
20th Anniversary of Anita Hill's Testimony →
Anita Hill’s testimony sparked the feminist climate of the 1990s. Now it’s time to talk about women and class.
I first saw Anita’s testimony to the Judiciary Committee on C-Span about a year ago and was so impressed by her courage and her demeanor (so impressed that I stayed in on a Friday night to watch C-Span). She had clearly been embarrassed by the events she spoke about, but she...
5 tags
4 tags
4 tags
5 tags
5 tags
5 tags
“We’re dealing with a generation of girls that have their shit together like...”
– Julie Klausner, WTF with Marc Maron, Episode 217 Live at the Bell House (via fatgirlinohio)
I love that people are quoting this, I just wish I didn’t say “like” so much. :(
(via julieklausner)
Reblogged to bring it to the attention of Nicole and http://getitgirls.tumblr.com (Tumblr, why no...
5 tags
The Concerns Of Mindy Kaling: The Back Of My Book! →
Hilaaaarious.
theconcernsofmindykaling:
When you don’t look like in a model in real life you cherish great photos of yourself. When I was on Facebook, approximately 1/3 of my life was untagging bad photos of myself and sending messages to their uploaders saying: “WTF, you guys? Put another grim photo of me on the internet and I will…
5 tags
Makeup, Trustworthiness, the Workplace →
Wearing makeup — but not gobs of Gaga-conspicuous makeup — apparently can help. It increases people’s perceptions of a woman’s likability, her competence and (provided she does not overdo it) her trustworthiness, according to a new study, which also confirmed what is obvious: that cosmetics boost a woman’s attractiveness.
In the past week (and 10 years) I’ve seen so many studies like this...
2 tags
Exciting News
hellogiggles:
Excited to announce that HelloGiggles.com will be working with the The White House on a project called Women Working To Do Good. Please feel free to send in your suggestions of women in your community (doing good.)
info@hellogiggles.com
HelloGiggles and Obama reppin’ awesome women doing good.
4 tags
3 tags
Daughter of ‘Dirty War,’ Raised by Man Who Killed... →
She says she still does not hate the Tetzlaffs. But “the heart doesn’t kidnap you, it doesn’t hide you, it doesn’t hurt you, it doesn’t lie to you all of your life,” she said. “Love is something else.”
4 tags
Chilean girls stage 'occupation' of their own... →
It began early one morning in May, when dozens of teenage girls emerged from the predawn darkness and scaled the spiked iron fence around Chile’s most prestigious girl’s school. They used classroom chairs to barricade themselves inside and settled in. Five months later, the occupation shows no signs of dying and the students are still fighting for their goal: free university education...
4 tags
6 tags
5 tags
Three Women Receive Nobel Peace Prize for their... →
NPR’s Philip Reeves said this year’s award is being viewed as “an extremely important moment for women in the fight for equality and rights.” Only 10 of the 98 Nobel Peace laureates, he noted, have been women.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/10/07/501364/main20117103.shtml
6 tags
6 tags
6 tags
Homecoming Queen and HS Football Kicker →
On Friday, with Pinckney leading powerful Michigan rival Grand Blanc, 6-0, at the half, Amat, the first girl to play football for the school’s varsity, was asked to return to the field. When she arrived, she was told that her fellow students had voted her queen. When the tiara was placed on her head, she was wearing not a dress, like the other girls in the homecoming court, but her No. 12 uniform,...
4 tags
