Women In Politics: The Binder’s Getting Thicker
After tuesday’s election results, the memes have been strong, but hopefully the effects will be stronger. Besides Obama holding down another four years, there have been huge gains for women in politics, ladies now holding 20 senate seats, the largest number [...]
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The Real War on Women is in the Middle East
To have any kind of real understanding of the Arab Awakening, we must look to the role of women and challenge the word “revolution.” In the West, we tend to idolize the struggle for democracy, and rightly so, but that [...]
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The Grand Old Party and Women
It’s hard to avoid the headlines accusing Republicans of waging a ‘war on women.’ Questionable semantics aside, there are certainly a broad scope of policy decisions and initiatives that call into question the sincerity of the GOP’s commitment to supporting [...]
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