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The Wednesday Weigh-in: Mentoring Edition
TweetAccording to a new study by LinkedIn, one in five professional women in the U.S. has never had a mentor. The survey of nearly 1,000 women found that 52% of women without mentors said they’d just never found “someone appropriate” and 67% of women who had never been mentors said it was because they’d never [...]
The Wednesday Weigh-In: Sexy Halloween Edition
Tweet Read Part 2 of the cartoon at The Hairpin. “Sexy Virgnia Woolf” is my fav. It’s almost Halloween, you guys! Which means yet another year of eye-rolling about how TEH SEXY has completely taken over. Jillian Tamaki’s costume ideas in Part 2 of the cartoon above are so hilarious/sad because they not very different [...]
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The Wednesday Weigh-in: Occupy Wall Street and confronting privilege
TweetI haven’t been down to Occupy Wall Street yet, although I’m joining the march with unions and community groups later today. But I’ve been reading a lot of the reflections and critiques as the protests continue to gather steam. Among the unfairly dismissive criticisms, there have been a lot of folks grappling with important questions [...]
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The Wednesday Weigh In: Nobel peace prize edition
Tweet WikiLeaks’ Australian founder Julian Assange, pictured above holding an Australian peace award he received in May of this year. The Nobel Peace Prize nominees for 2011 were recently announced, and there were a few surprises in the bunch. 241 candidates, have been nominated for this year’s award, which, in addition to Arab Spring superstars [...]
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The Wednesday Weigh-In: “Protester of the Year” Edition