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Sexism and the Media in the 2008 Primaries - Dee Dee Myers

2008-10-29T03:30:39Z

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Dee Dee Myers evaluates the fairness of media coverage on Hillary Clinton in comparison to presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain.

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For the first time in over 200 years, a woman serves as the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives and we have witnessed the historic campaign of our country's first viable female presidential candidate.Yet, women in elected office hold only sixteen seats in the U.S. Senate and seventy-one in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Join a panel of high-profile female political professionals who have broken through the glass ceiling in government and politics to discuss the strides women have made in pursuit of leadership roles and the challenges they have faced in assuming and maintaining power in the political arena - The New School

Dee Dee Myers is the first woman and youngest person ever to serve as White House Press Secretary. During the first years of the Clinton Administration, Ms. Myers explained the actions of the new president to a vigilant press corps and to the nation. She earned the respect of both with her sharp political instincts, sense of humor and ability to explain complex subjects in straightforward language. Since leaving the white house, Ms. Myers has worked as a political analyst, commentator and writer. She is uniquely qualified to comment on the complex dynamics at work in the relationship between the president and the press.Ms. Myers is currently a Contributing Editor to Vanity Fair magazine and a frequent political commentator on NBC and MSNBC. After leaving the White House, Ms. Myers was an original consultant to the NBC series, The West Wing, and contributed story lines and technical advice throughout its prizewinning long run. In March of 1999, Gov. Gray Davis appointed Ms. Myers to the California State University Board of Trustees. The Board sets policy for the 23-campus Cal State system, the largest public university in the world.Dee Dee Myers' book, Why Women should Rule the World (Harper Collins, 2008) considers the question: What would happen if women ruled the world?

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What Can Women Candidates Learn from Hillary Clinton?

2008-10-28T09:29:40Z

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Kate Moses, co-founder of Salon.com's daily column Mothers Who Think, vents her frustration over the Hillary Clinton campaign.

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In this novel Wintering, and in her work with Camille Peri on the national bestseller and American Book Award-winning anthology Mothers Who Think: Tales of Real-Life Parenthood, Kate Moses elevates the discussion of motherhood and shows that it gives women more to think about, not less.

Kate Moses, a San Francisco native, worked as an editor at Berkeley's acclaimed North Point Press and as literary director of Intersection for the Arts. In 1997 she teamed up with journalist Camille Peri to found Salon.com's popular daily website "Mothers Who Think" - Grace Cathedral

Kate Moses, a San Francisco native, worked as an editor at Berkeley's acclaimed North Point Press and as literary director of Intersection for the Arts.

In 1997, she teamed up with journalist Camille Peri to found Salon.com's popular daily website, "Mothers Who Think."

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Clinton-Obama Split in a Feminist Family

2008-11-23T02:23:32Z

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Maria Hinojosa, senior correspondent for the PBS show NOW and editor and host of Latino USA, interviews feminist Letty Cottin Pogrebin and her daughter, Abigail. Mother and daughter are supporting different Democratic candidates. This is an interesting discussion about why there is a split among female voters between the two candidates.

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Old White Feminists For Obama

2008-10-29T03:31:01Z

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Outside the Barack Obama Victory Rally in St. Paul, women from Wisconsin explain why they support Obama instead of Clinton. One of them makes some pretty cool campaign buttons too!

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Experiences with Gender Discrimination in Politics

2008-11-22T16:56:07Z

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Former San Jose Vice Mayor Cindy Chavez discusses her experiences with gender discrimination in politics.

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Four women who have either held elected office, studied women and leadership, worked as executive leaders or helped get women elected will discuss how gender plays out in politics, particularly in the presidential race.

The panel features former San Jose City Councilwoman Cindy Chavez; business executive and political fund-raiser Lorraine Hariton; Morgan Family Foundation President and former California Senator Rebecca Q. Morgan; and Stanford Law Professor and Ethics Center Director Deborah L. Rhode.

Panelists will explore such topics as whether the playbook is different for male and female politicians, why women are underrepresented in leadership positions and how the role of women in politics has evolved in the United States. Panelists also will respond to audience questions.

Foothill College History/Women's Studies Instructor Dolores Davison, M.A., who also serves as the Academic Senate president and Curriculum Committee chair, will moderate the discussion. The program is co-sponsored by the Commonwealth Club of Silicon Valley - Foothill College

Cindy Chavez served as Vice Mayor of the City of San Jose. While a member of the San Jose City Council, she represented Council District Three (which includes the downtown area) on the San Jose City Council. Chavez was first elected to the Council in 1998 and re-elected in 2002.

In 2005, she was chosen by the San Jose Mayor and confirmed by her colleagues on the City Council to serve as Vice Mayor. She is currently working as a lecturer teaching Local Politics at her alma mater San Jose State University.

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Where My Ladies At?

2008-10-20T03:30:15Z

I guess they call it "man-on-the-street" for a reason.

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Dan Savage and Amy Richards on Abortion Rights and Feminism

2008-10-28T16:25:43Z

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Advice columnists Amy Richards and Dan Savage discuss what they see as frequent misunderstandings about issues of feminism and abortion.

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In the July 18th, 2004 issue of The New York Times Magazine, feminist activist Amy Richards gave her account of deciding to undergo "selective reduction." The procedure reduces the number of fetuses carried by a pregnant woman - in Richards' case, from triplets to one baby.

Her controversial choice reignited debates about reproductive freedom and the ethics of choice. Richards recounts the backlash of the article and the many challenges of raising her son in Opting In: Having a Child Without Losing Yourself. Richards is co-founder of The Third Wave Foundation and has written feminist.com's advice column "Ask Amy" since 1995.

Internationally-syndicated columnist Dan Savage dispenses with taboos when writing about sex and relationships. Since 1991, his column "Savage Love" has offered advice that examines and dispels conservative models of love, sex, and family.

With great humor, Savage encourages a "good, giving, and game" approach to safe sexual experimentation and skepticism of "simplistic" views of monogamy. Dan Savage is also a contributor to "This American Life" and editorial director of The Stranger, the Seattle weekly that first published his popular column.

His book The Kid relates Savage's experiences adopting a baby boy with his partner. The Commitment: Love, Sex, Marriage, and My Family, his memoir of family, includes Savage's commentary on the gay marriage debate - City Arts & Lectures

Daniel Savage is an American sex advice columnist, author, media pundit, journalist, and newspaper editor. Savage is best known for penning the internationally syndicated relationship and sex advice column Savage Love. Its tone is humorous, profane, and often hostile to social conservatives, as in the Santorum controversy.

Savage has often been the subject of controversy regarding his opinions that pointedly clash with both traditional conservative moral values and those put forth by what Savage has been known to call the "gay establishment".

Amy Richards is co-founder of The Third Wave Foundation and has written feminist.com's advice column "Ask Amy" since 1995.

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Thomas Sowell - Gender Bias and Income Disparity: A Myth?

2008-10-14T11:18:11Z

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Hoover Institution Senior Fellow Thomas Sowell argues that economic differences between working men and women are not generally due to employer discrimination, as is widely alleged.

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Peter Robinson speaks with Thomas Sowell about his new book Economic Facts and Fallacies in which Sowell exposes some of the most popular fallacies about economic issues.

Sowell takes on the conventional thinking on a wide swath of America's economic life, from male-female economic differences to income stagnation, executive pay, and social mobility to economics of higher education. In all cases he demonstrates how economics relates to the social issues that deeply affect our country - Hoover Institution

Thomas Sowell is an American economist, political writer, and commentator. He is currently a senior fellow of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. In 1990, he won the Francis Boyer Award, presented by the American Enterprise Institute. In 2002 he was awarded the National Humanities Medal for prolific scholarship melding history, economics, and political science.

Peter M. Robinson is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution, where he writes about business and politics, edits Hoover's quarterly journal, the Hoover Digest, and hosts Hoover's television program, Uncommon Knowledge.

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Dee Dee Myers - Different Standards for Working Women

2008-10-26T03:31:02Z

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Former White House Press Secretary Dee Dee Myers argues that American women continue to be held to different social and professional standards than men.

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Why Women Should Run the World with Dee Dee Myers.

Hear Myers' fresh take on the achievements that women have made in all aspects of public life. At the age of 31, Myers was appointed as White House press secretary under Clinton. Myers highlights the difficulties women faced throughout history as well as their collective battle to achieve a presence in areas once denied to them - The Commonwealth Club of California

Ms. Myers is currently a Contributing Editor to Vanity Fair magazine and a frequent political commentator on NBC and MSNBC. After leaving the White House, Ms. Myers was an original consultant to the NBC series, The West Wing, and contributed story lines and technical advice throughout its prizewinning long run. In March of 1999, Gov. Gray Davis appointed Ms. Myers to the California State University Board of Trustees. The Board sets policy for the 23-campus Cal State system, the largest public university in the world.

Dee Dee Myers' book, Why Women should Rule the World (Harper Collins, 2008) considers the question: What would happen if women ruled the world? Everything could change, according to former White House press secretary Dee Dee Myers. Politics would be more collegial. Businesses would be more productive. And communities would be healthier. Empowering women would make the world a better place - not because women are the same as men, but precisely because they are different. Blending memoir, social history, and a call to action, Dee Dee Myers challenges us to imagine a not-too-distant future in which increasing numbers of women reach the top ranks of politics, business, science, and academia.

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Are Women Too Reluctant to Take Credit for Achievements?

2008-10-24T21:31:00Z

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Former White House Press Secretary Dee Dee Myers argues that American women in general are too reluctant to take credit for professional achievements.

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Why Women Should Run the World with Dee Dee Myers.

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Courtney Martin - Perfect Girls, or Starving Daughters?

2008-10-14T11:16:48Z

Courtney E. Martin is a writer originally from Colorado Springs, Colorado. Her book, Perfect Girls, Starving Daughters: The Frightening New Normalcy of Hating Your Body, will be published on Simon and Schuster's Free Press in April and in the UK and Norway in May.

She writes for a range of national publications, including Newsweek, Newsday, Alternet, The Christian Science Monitor, The Village Voice, Time Out New York, Utne Reader, Women's eNews, Poets and Writers, Publisher's Weekly, BUST, Bitch, and ReadyMade, among others. Courtney is also a contributing blogger for Crucial Minutiae and Feministing.

Courtney's been honored with the ChoiceUSA Setting the Message Straight Award, the Elie Wiesel Prize in Ethics, and fellowships from the Puffin Foundation, the Clark Foundation, and the Oral History Association. In addition, she is a Woodhull fellow.

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Deborah Siegel - The Rise of the Feminist Bad-Ass

2008-10-14T11:23:16Z

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Author Deborah Siegel revisits pop-culture feminism of the 1990s in an excerpt from her book, "Sisterhood, Interrupted: From Radical Women to Grrls Gone Wild."

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Deborah Siegel considers "Sisterhood, Interrupted: From Radical Women to Grrls Gone Wild."

Deborah Siegel, a Fellow at the Woodhull Institute for Ethical Leadership and editor of the anthology "Only Child," explores how the personal is political feminism of the 60s and 70s has transformed to the current generation of women who question the role of traditional feminism. - Cody's Books

Deborah Siegel, PhD is a writer and consultant specializing in women's issues. She is the author of the new book, "Sisterhood, Interrupted: From Radical Women to Grrls Gone Wild" from Palgrave MacMillan.

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