By Ann • 18 years ago

I now pronounce you Man and Wife of the Year

With married women being all the rage right now, it’s no wonder that several of California’s Women of the Year count “wife of state legislator” among their primary accomplishments.
I wonder if Swiffer sponsored the awards dinner?

In Monday’s Senate floor speech honoring the selection of the women of the year, first lady Maria Shriver boasted that, “This is an achievement that will never leave you. You will always be known as a California woman of the year. No one can take it away from you. You didn’t come here because of who you were married to.”
Well, at least some of them didn’t.

This prompted me to look up past winners of Time’s ...

With married women being all the rage right now, it’s no wonder that several of California’s Women of the Year count “wife of state legislator” among their primary accomplishments.
I wonder if

By Ann • 18 years ago

Nurturing women candidates

With midterm elections approaching, the Democratic party is running women candidates as outsiders against a “culture of corruption.” In other words, “let’s exploit some stereotypes!”

“In an environment where people are disgusted with politics in general, who represents clean [floors] and change [diapers]?” asks Representative Rahm Emanuel of Illinois, the chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. “Women.” [Insertions mine.]

I’m glad the DCCC is making an effort to increase female representation in the legislature. But the way to do that is just to nominate more women candidates, and then trumpet their actual political strengths– rather than a list of stereotypes. (The article goes all Lakoff on our asses, noting that women candidates are a ...

With midterm elections approaching, the Democratic party is running women candidates as outsiders against a “culture of corruption.” In other words, “let’s exploit some stereotypes!”

“In an environment where people are disgusted with politics in general, ...
By Jessica • 18 years ago

90 African women die every day from unsafe abortions

This is horrendous. A recent conference in nairobi highlighted the disturbing statistics and stories of women affected by unsafe abortions. Unbelievably, 90 African women die every day from unsafe abortions.
The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that 4.2 million women in Africa have unsafe abortions every year–30,000 of them die. Africa accounts for almost half of the world’s deaths from unsafe abortions.
Researchers at the conference blame sexist and restrictive laws:

“A lot of people are not aware of the disaster unsafe abortion provokes,” said Eunice Brookman-Amissah, vice- president of Ipas, a reproductive health organisation. “Too many laws in Africa are too restrictive. They would only allow abortion to save the life of the ...

This is horrendous. A recent conference in nairobi highlighted the disturbing statistics and stories of women affected by unsafe abortions. Unbelievably, 90 African women die every day from unsafe abortions.
The ...
By Vanessa • 18 years ago

Hetero study on dating pisses me off.

According to this particular study, more than one-third of women believe that “making the first move” is desperate. Wha?
On the other hand, two-thirds of men believe that it’s a good thing when women are aggressive.
“To begin with, men are pleasantly surprised to be spoken to by a woman,” says German psychologist and flirting expert (ha!) Stephan Landsiedel. “The reason is most men experience it seldom, and the attention is flattering.”
Not because it exudes confidence or anything. Sigh.

According to this particular study, more than one-third of women believe that “making the first move” is desperate. Wha?
On the other hand, two-thirds of men believe that it’s a good thing when women are ...
By Vanessa • 18 years ago

The never-ending itch.

This is just bizarre.
Apparently a new condition has been getting attention as of late called “persistent sexual arousal syndrome.” In short, women get horny.
The International Journal of STD & AIDS came out with a report on the condition, claiming that women (and only women have experienced this, I might add) with PSAS “become involuntarily aroused genitally for extended periods in time in the absence of sexual desire.” Doesn’t sound too bad, right? The only thing is that the arousal isn’t relieved by having an orgasm.
Has anyone heard about this? Sounds a little nutty to me.

This is just bizarre.
Apparently a new condition has been getting attention as of late called “persistent sexual arousal syndrome.” In short, women get horny.
The International Journal of STD & AIDS came ...
By Vanessa • 18 years ago

Women work it in the UK.

The Office of National Statistics has released a report (coincidentally less than a month after the Women and Work Commission came out with their own report on the significant gender pay gap in the UK) on how good British women have it in the workplace:

Women’s employment has increased from a rate of 56 per cent in 1971 to 70 per cent in 2005. . .This is equivalent to four million more women in work over the last 35 or so years, with much of the increase driven by the rise in working mothers.
Over the 10 years to spring 2005, the employment rate for married or cohabiting mothers increased by six per cent and ...

The Office of National Statistics has released a report (coincidentally less than a month after the Women and Work Commission came out with their own report on the significant gender pay ...
By Jessica • 18 years ago

Napoli knows best


I’m sure you remember the lovely South Dakota senator Bill Napoli who said that the only women who should be able to have abortions are religious virgins who were “brutalized and raped, sodomized as bad as you can possibly make it.”
Well so does the artist who did this comic strip, which encourages women to call Sen. Napoli whenever they need to make a decision. At work or at home. You know, since he clearly knows what’s best for us silly gals.

Via Boing Boing.

I’m sure you remember the lovely South Dakota senator Bill Napoli who said that the only women who should be able to have abortions are religious virgins who were “brutalized and raped, sodomized ...
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