Alison Weir is a top notch historian. I read this book and am now reading The Children of Henry VIII and plan to read her other books on the Tudor period ... she has several, which you can find on this page.

Quoted: Amazon.com: Six Wives of Henry VIII: Alison Weir: Books

At least some countries get it.

Quoted: By now, no one should be surprised by Zapatero's commitment to gender equality. In his first term, he passed a sweeping law against domestic violence, legalized gay marriage, eased divorce laws, and required political parties to practice gender parity. He also appointed equal numbers of men and women to cabinet positions, and named María Teresa Fernández de la Vega as his deputy prime minister.
This time around, the prime minister, who was re-elected on March 9, appointed more women than men to his cabinet. He also created a new Equality Ministry, charged with ensuring fairness in the workplace and continuing the fight against domestic violence.

This is pretty hilarious no matter who you are.

Quoted: The Urbane Tomboy

Check out my update to the election guide -- it's very timely!
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I managed to commission 3 feminist friendly articles on Encarta for March, including this one. Just doing what I can in my little corner of the world. Just remember ladies, we're not there yet, so don't be complacent!

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Tina Fey, just say the word and my first born is yours. Your bad assery transcends time and space.

The first feminist friendly video game! What a well written article too. I might actually like playing this game.

We watched this segment on 60 Minutes last night. More victims than Iraq, Afghanistan and Darfur combined? Why don't we hear about this more? Why aren't we waging war on the Congo to free the innocent people there? Perhaps when the objects of attack are women it just doesn't matter as much. Females as young as 3 years old are raped. This is a sex-based genocide, except they aren't usually lucky enough to die. (I would rather die, but then I am not half as tough as these women.)

You need to read or watch this if you haven't heard anything about it. I'm ashamed to admit I didn't know more about this before last night. It is worse than hell -- scores of women are raped daily and the rapists get almost no punishment if they're caught at all and usually they aren't. I thought Darfur was bad. One woman was tied down and raped by 6 different men while her brother was forced to watch. Her captors then gave him the choice of either raping his sister or getting macheted to death. What can hell possibly have on this place? Some are raped so badly (and often with objects like broken beer bottles) that they have to start wearing a catheter at age 16.

An organization called Women for Women seems like their only immediate hope: http://www.womenforwomen.org/index.htm
They have received the highest rating possible on Charity Navigator: http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summary&orgid=7623

I'm definitely going to start sponsoring a woman in the Congo. I think women everywhere need to try to do what they can to help -- no matter how small the action. This is what being a feminist is about.

Quoted: Right now there's a war taking place in the heart of Africa, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and more people have died there than in Iraq, Afghanistan and Darfur combined ... It is, in fact, a war against women, and the weapon used to destroy them, their families and whole communities, is rape.

A very interesting article -- redotted from Arun. I'm afraid this is the case. I was a little shocked Hillary got so little support from young women in Iowa. It backs my theory that my generation of women seem apathetic at best when it comes to the advancement of women. The author doesn't really touch on that, but this is a very important article, no matter who you are.

Quoted: Gender is probably the most restricting force in American life, whether the question is who must be in the kitchen or who could be in the White House.