shiwani | Shared With: Everyone - 16 days ago | politics, television, women, news
Wow, it's amazing how much thought Michelle Obama had to put into every detail of this appearance on The View.
Quoted: Obama had approached the appearance, to quote Barbara Walters' on-air reading of the morning's New York Times, "with an eye toward softening her reputation." To this end, she did not do her hair in the Jackie Kennedy flip that André Leon Talley—the Vogue editor who Page Six alleges to be her style guru—pegs as central to her "image strategy."
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shiwani | Shared With: Everyone - 24 days ago | politics, news, women
Amen! Meanwhile, that's a great bumper sticker: "A woman's place is in the House."
Quoted: As we keep our collective eye on November, the media's sexist attacks against Clinton should not be allowed to stand.
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shiwani | Shared With: Everyone - Jun 04 2008 | women, politics, news
This writer makes some good points that I agree with (for example, the notion that a lot of Hillary's "bitterness" comes from unduly harsh treatment of her). But I disagree with the idea that Hillary should've dwelled more on potentially being the first female president - she would've been slammed as manipulative and weak. Plus, it's very telling that there aren't any alternative models...
Quoted: In the coming days, as Hillary Clinton moves to the sidelines and Barack Obama takes the stage alone, many people will suggest that America just wasn't ready for a female president. This may be true. But we'll never entirely know, because her problem wasn't that she was a feminist. Her problem was that she wasn't feminist enough.
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shiwani | Shared With: Everyone - May 28 2008 | women, politics, news
Great article - I agree that Clinton not clinching the nomination does not equal never seeing another woman candidate in our lifetimes. But the fact that women are questioning that proves there's still a lot of work to be done!
Quoted: It's enough to make a girl want to run for president … With Hillary edging ever closer to the won't-finish line in the primary, the inevitable rending of garments that a woman may never mount a successful run for the presidency has begun.
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shiwani | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 01 2008 | women, politics, news
Interesting story on a lawsuit that's emerging in Turkey around head scarves.
Quoted: The debate surrounding head scarves, banned in French schools and some German state institutions, has just re-emerged at the center of an extraordinary lawsuit, one that could, if successful, bring down the Turkish government.
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shiwani | Shared With: Everyone - Mar 18 2008 | women, politics, race, news
So 'The Root' is an African-American focused sister publication of Slate. They've had a lot fascinating content on race and politics, and as you can imagine, today was a huge day for them with the Obama speech. But I think this piece is especially fascinating and a good intro to the identity issues they're addressing.
Quoted: Enough with the dirty looks. Race is not the overriding feature of my identity.
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shiwani | Shared With: Everyone - Mar 12 2008 | politics, women
I think this article raises a very important point about the importance of political spouses having careers of their own. However, I think the author is a little harsh on the current generation of first ladies - they had a very different set of social norms to grapple with when they were in college.
Quoted: Wife again standing mutely at his side, Eliot Spitzer resigned from his office as governor of the state of New York. When Spitzer's wife, Silda, called Hillary Clinton for advice on how to be a good first lady a few years ago, she probably didn't realize how horribly relevant the connection would be. What could she have done? What can any woman do? How about this: Don't quit your day job.
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shiwani | Shared With: Everyone - Mar 11 2008 | politics, women, news
Really sad situation for the political spouses. I bet it's a combination of shock, denial, embarrassment, and not wanting to kick someone while they're down...
Quoted: For as long as powerful political men have been getting caught up in scandals, their wives have been standing by them. But why do they do it? The former wife of the former governor of New Jersey explains.
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shiwani | Shared With: Everyone - Mar 03 2008 | photography, women, politics
Women do rule! Literally... Great photos of female political figures in honor of National Women's History Month.
Quoted: In recognition of National Women’s History Month, Magnum presents images of notable female political figures.
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- ms.kruse - Apr 27 2008
- shiwani - Apr 27 2008
You must be shiwani's friend before you can comment on this Fave.I heard a tiny blurb on NPR on Friday about this and that was it. WTF? I wonder if pay disparities are more of a problem in traditionally male dominated industries like this Goodyear example, and the factory situations they mentioned. I'd be more apt to expect it in that situation than say mine. But if your bosses seem like very enlightened, fair, PC people why would you have any reason to suspect it? I'm not going to ask my male counterpart at work how much he makes because it's rude. So, how would I know? Yet, I keep hearing the stat that I make 77 cents to the dollar that my male colleagues make, so there must be something to that. I'd just like to see that stat unpacked a little bit. In this article when they say a Latina makes 52 cents to the dollar a white man makes, are they comparing the two groups in the same exact field with the same number of years of experience?
Anyway, I'm not the least bit surprised that the Republicans are blocking this. They want us all at home hand-washing our husbands' underwear like Nancy Reagan used to do.
Yeah, I think what you're saying about discussing salary being taboo is really key here. Who's holding employers accountable for this type of discrimination? Also, this just propagates the notion of women's careers being "secondary" because if one person decides to stay home in a couple, it's usually the one with a lower earning potential out of necessity.
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