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Woman Takes Charge of Major Intelligence Agency for the First Time
Long, who has spent 32 years in government service, including more than two decades in the intelligence community, was sworn in as director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, the office responsible for collectin… Continue
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Lucie Lapovsky on Benchmarking Women's Leadership
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Step By Step: How Saudi Arabian Women Are Turning Dreams Into Reality
On April 8, 2010 I attended one of the most exciting and informative forums sponsored by The Chicago Council On Global Affairs. This forum was part of THE WOMEN AND GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT FORUM and the subject entitled: More Than Half the Kingdom: Today's Saudi Woman. The distinguished guest speakers were Her Royal Highness Princess Reema Bint Bander Al Saud- President and CEO, ALFA International and AL HAMA LLC and Dr.
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Businesses Owned by Minorities, Women Boomed Before Recession, Census Says
Carol Morello
July 14, 2010
Emogene Mitchell spent two decades in the cocoon of a multinational research institute, rising to vice president in charge of events planning. Then the economy tanked, and the workload shriveled.
In the heart of the Great Recession, Mitchell was ready to join the soaring number of minorities and women who are starting their own businesses and are expected to fuel much of the job growth over the next decade.
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Religion's Invisible Women
Katherine Marshall
July 12, 2010
Dekha Ibrahim Abdi, a courageous woman from the arid north of Kenya, devotes her life to building peace. She compares this work to an egg. "An egg is delicate and fragile. But if given the right conditions, it gives life." Likewise, the potential for peace is fragile, and it needs careful nurturing if that potential is to be fulfilled.
Only a tiny number of those who sign… Continue
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Should Women Ever Be Bishops?
Emma John
July 4, 2010
It's midday in Westminster Abbey and a robed priest is presiding at communion – holding the chalice aloft, bowing before it. It's a small congregation, just five or six tourists, but high-church ritual is still meticulously observed. In this 1,000-year-old building, tradition is the stock-in-trade.
In the cloisters behind the Chapter House lives Rev Jane Hedges, Canon Steward at the Abbey, and one of the most senior women… Continue
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More Women Seeking Seats in Oklahoma Legislature
Michael McNutt
June 27, 2010
More women are running for legislative offices this year in Oklahoma, the state with the second-lowest percentage of female lawmakers in the country.
If every female candidate wins her race, the number of women in the Legislature could nearly double after the November elections. That is unlikely, though, as some female contenders face an uphill battle against male incumbents.
Still, the nearly 40 female legi… Continue
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Julia Gillard to Lead Australia as Rudd Steps Down
Gillard is expected to present more of a change of leadership style than substance, but investors hope she will soften a controversial "super profits" mining tax, which is threatening $20 bill… Continue
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Feminists' Job One: Electing More Women to Office
Sandra Fish
Women make up almost 51 percent of the U.S. population.
Women make up almost 17 percent of the U.S. Congress.
Although 1992 may have been the "Year of the Woman" in congressional contests, that election changed the proportion of women from 6 percent to only 10 percent.
Whoop-de-do.
Let's set aside, for the moment, the discussion of who's a feminist (Sarah Palin?) and whether your position on abortion… Continue
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A Woman’s Place Is in Office
Nicholas Leingang
[Editor’s Note: We would be remiss if we did not mention that new leadership moving in the right direction. Therefore, we decided to feature some of your new women leaders in local politics that have been elected this week. We applaud the voters that recognize the importance of women in politics and the need for equal representation reflected in our leaders.]
We have a political picnic in Bismarck every year. And I get a phone… Continue
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If It’s Sunday, It’s More Men in Dark Suits
Jessica Bennett
June 14, 2010
Politico’s got a good roundup today of the lack of women on the Sunday talk-show circuit, based on new data from American University showing that women lawmakers made up just 13.4 percent of congressional appearances this year.
Thus far this year, the five major Sunday shows—including NBC’s “Meet the Press,” “Fox News Sunday,” CBS’s “Face the Nation,” ABC’s “This Week” and CNN’s “State of the Union”—have had 148 appea… Continue
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Best Buy Tests New Appeals to Women
Best Buy's customers and worker are overwhelmingly male, a vestige from its days as a seller of speakers and stereo equipment. While Best Buy estimated earlie… Continue
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A Profile on Journalist, Lisa Ling
Lisa Ling, an American journalist born in Sacramento, California, began her career at the young-age of 16 when she hosted “Scratch”, a nationally syndicated teen magazine show. She continued her passion for journalism on Channel One News where she became one of the youngest reporters and anchors. By age 25, Ling was a Channel One correspondent, which gave her the opportunity to travel the world, reporting on the likes of cocaine labs, Afghanistan, and tea-time… Continue
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Accenture to Restore, Digitize and Archive the Barbara Walters Video Collection for The Paley Center for Media
Barbera Burgess • June 3, 2010
Accenture will provide The Paley Center for Media with services to restore, digitize and archive highlights of the video collection of American broadcast journalist Barbara Walters. The announcement was made yesterday at Accenture's Women's Leadership Forum, which was held at The Paley Center for Media in New York and attended by nearly 100 women leaders in the communications, high-tech and media industries.… Continue
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Accenture to Restore, Digitize and Archive the Barbara Walters Video Collection for The Paley Center for Media
Barbara Burgess
June 3, 2010
Accenture /quotes/comstock/13*!acn/quotes/nls/acn (ACN 37.55, +0.72, +1.96%) will provide The Paley Center for Media with services to restore, digitize and archive highlights of the video collection of American broadcast journalist Barbara Walters. The announcement was made yesterday at Accenture's Women's Leadership Forum, which was held at The Paley Center for Media in New York and attended… Continue
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Japan’s ‘Knuckle Princess’ Arrives in U.S.
Billy Witz
May 30, 2010
CHICO, Calif. — When the former major leaguer Ivan Ochoa laid a well-placed bunt down the third-base line for a single to lead off the game, it drew boos from the home crowd and a loud rejoinder from one fan: “Hit like a man.”
But rather than an insult, Ochoa’s bunt served as the ultimate compliment. It was a sign that the pitcher, Eri Yoshida, a diminutive 18-year-old woman who arrived from Japan with dimples and… Continue
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Heeding the Call: Here Come the Muslim "Imamahs"
Ruth Gledhill
May 29, 2010
Women imams could be leading prayers in British mosques within 15 years, according to a leading Muslim.
However, resistance from traditionalists means that although women may lead other women, it could be decades before they lead mixed congregations.
The number of female Islamic scholars, or alimahs, is soaring. Until recently there were very few. Now there are five seminaries for women against two for… Continue
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In Camouflage or Veil, a Fragile Bond
For two hours inside a mud-walled compound, the Marines, Cpl. Diana Amaya, 23, and… Continue
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Women Peace Prize Winners Band Together to Help Others
It started on a hot November day in Nairobi, Kenya. This potentially world-changing movement b… Continue
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Biden Notes Big Year, Sub Service for Navy Women
Biden, whose recognition of the women brought huge cheers from the crowd of students and parents, said they will inspire others to serve the nation in ways they nev… Continue
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