Did you know that breast augmentation is the ultimate "women’s issue"? Implants can critically damage women’s health and personal finances. They are for sale based on questionable safety studies paid for by multi-million-dollar, male-dominated industry. They target the ultimate symbol of our femininity, our breasts. Read all about it in this award-winning Glamour magazine article. [...]
Archive | June, 2010
Giving Men the Gift of Pay Equity
By Adam Zimmerman of AAUW Yes, you read that correctly. A couple of weeks before my bar mitzvah, my parents and I went to our rabbi’s home to discuss the big day. One of the honors for the bar mitzvah boy is that members of his family can get called up to read certain prayers [...]
what about this weekend
We have a feeling that this weekend will be awesome. Hope you will enjoy it as much as we will do!! Reading Materials: Jessica Powers gives us the review for“Falling Apart in one piece: One Optimist’s Journey Through the Hell of Divorce”. How do people deal with a divorce? How they can handle every difficult [...]
Finally we are Candidates and not just “women candidates”
I woke up Wednesday morning, checked the political news online, and breathed a very happy sigh of relief. It wasn’t that I had favored candidates who won, or that I was emotionally invested in any of the races. Rather, it was the fact that so many of the winners were women, and the press barely [...]
a week of important news for women
Space Candy writes, Here is the thing about Helen Thomas: If you haven’t heard the news yet, White House reporter and columnist Helen Thomas has announced her resignation, effective immediately. This is in response to comments she made about Jews getting out of Palestine; you can hear the comment straight from her mouth here. I’m [...]
Our Newest Radio Show and the Latest from the Femisphere
Breast Implants, Plastic Surgery and Hollywood Tuesday, June 22, 2010, 1:00 PM EST, here Phone Number: (724) 444-7444 Call ID: 74229 Moderator: Melissa Silverstein, Blogger, Women & Hollywood Sybil Niden Goldrich, Founder, Command Trust Network Mary McDonough, Actress & Women’s Health Activist Dr. Diana Zuckerman, President, National Research Center for Women & Families Recently, when the [...]
what about this weekend
This week was short but still really busy. Are you ready to enjoy the first weekend of the summer? Reading Materials “Lips Unsealed” by Belinda Carlisle, former lead singer of the Go-Go’s. The title is a reference to one of the band’s biggest hits. The rise and fall of the Go-Go’s is well known — [...]
Responding to Military Sexual Trauma – Still A Long Way to Go
Cross-posted with permission from Marcia G. Yerman. This article is dated May 30, 2010. May 30th is Military Sexual Trauma Awareness Day. The issue is starting to get more traction in terms of visibility, Congressional hearings, and acknowledgement from agencies that span a full range of alphabet soup. On Thursday, May 20th, a morning hearing [...]
A week of important news for women
A great piece by Lynne Harris in The Nation about how sometimes "teen pregnancy is no accident." Leyla W. couldn’t figure out where her birth control pills kept going. One day a few tablets would be missing; the next, the whole container. Her then-boyfriend shrugged and said he hadn’t seen them. She believed him—until she [...]
Tipper is Free: The Marriage Thing
Cross-posted with permission from patriarchalDISORDER. I’m waiting for Tipper Gore to talk about why she ended her forty-year marriage to Al Gore. I’d be surprised to discover that he’s the one who needed a change, not that I know anything about Al Gore’s inner life but mostly because I can well imagine how a woman [...]