These three ego-tripping former businesswomen spent millions of their own money on their unsuccessful quests for public office in the recent US elections. Instead, argued Gail Sheehy, they could have pledged that money to education or other forms of giving to make America a better place for the millions living in poverty and without hope. [...]
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See TEDWomen in Washington DC in December It is becoming a depressingly recurring theme: the numbers for women are not good, whichever way you look at them. Read this comprehensive description of the state of play for women’s employment in the US from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania Congratulations to Carol Schwartz for this important initiative. Check out the Women’s Leadership Institute Australia In Melbourne later this week they are having an “IQ Debate” on the topic: Has Feminism Failed? The evidence supposedly is that because we have not yet reached the nirvana of equality this is the fault of feminism. When asked about this by the Sunday Age newspaper, I replied that it is society – not [...] A new group NameItChangeIt has been formed by women in the US to document and combat sexist portrayal of women in public life. Read the article |
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