Dec 18
From the Huffington Post: The 113th Congress will have 20 female senators, the most ever in U.S. history. Joining the Senate will be Republican Deb Fischer (Neb.) and Democrats Tammy Baldwin (Wis.), Heidi Heitkamp (N.D.), Mazie Hirono (Hawaii) and Elizabeth Warren (Mass.). All six Democratic women up for reelection — Sens. Maria Cantwell (Wash.), Dianne Feinstein …
Dec 18
From the NYT: It is doubly miraculous that the young woman named Gul Meena is alive. After she was struck by an ax 15 times, slashing her head and face so deeply that it exposed her brain, she held on long enough to reach medical care and then, despite the limitations of what the doctors …
Dec 18
From Yahoo: A 4-year-old boy’s big sister who went to bat for him by petitioning Hasbro to make a version of the classic Easy Bake Oven for boys got a surprise this holiday season when the company invited her to see the new, boy-friendly model of the timeless toy. McKenna Pope, 13, didn’t have to go …
Oct 21
From the NYT: A federal appeals court on Thursday ruled that gay Americans are a class of people who deserve the same kinds of constitutional protections as many other victims of discrimination. The 2-to-1 ruling, by the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in New York, came as the panel struck down the federal …
Oct 11
From the NYT: Yale researchers found that science professors at American universities widely regard female undergraduates as less competent than male students with the same skills and accomplishments. As a result, the report found, the professors were less likely to offer the women mentoring or a job. And even if they were willing to offer …
Oct 11
From the Washington Post: Balding hipster-nerd brings his demure girlfriend to his boys’-night-out poker game. Girlfriend looks like an easy mark. But as the game unfolds, she’s not what she seems. Shedding her prim blouse and headband for a tight tank top, sunglasses and headphones, she turns out to be a smooth operator. “Bah-zing!” she …
Sep 18
From the Atlantic: There are lots of statistics you could break out to illustrate the growing power of women in the economy. But if numbers don’t do it for you, then just look at what’s going on at Hooters. After five years of falling sales, the restaurant chain is trying to revamp its fortunes by …
Aug 27
From the NYT: Mammals are named after their defining characteristic, the glands capable of sustaining a life for years after birth — glands that are functional only in the female. And yet while the term “mammal” is based on an objective analysis of shared traits, the genus name for human beings, Homo, reflects an 18th-century …
Aug 09
From Richmond Magazine comes this profile of Longwood’s interim president, Marge Connelly. Marge Connelly is a nationally noted businesswoman, a tireless volunteer, a world traveler and a vocal advocate for gay rights. You might start telling someone about Marge Connelly by noting that Richmond’s highest-ranking Capital One corporate officer worked her way from a position …
Aug 06
Stories of Olympic women (and their hair, their clothes, and their hijabs) continue to flood out of London. From the NYT: Watching the first Saudi woman compete in the Olympics, many in Riyadh expressed doubts about whether life for women would change in the Arab world. Check it out here. From the Washington Post: Gabby Douglas’s …