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Technically, science will be less lonely for women when girls are spurred early

Anna Holmes writing for the Washington Post: “The gender disparities in the United States’ STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) workforce are troubling. According to a report released last month by the Department of Commerce, although…

Hillary Clinton Promotes Women’s Rights Treaty That U.S. Has Not Yet Joined

Joshua Hersh writing for the Huffington Post: “On the eve of high-level meetings for the United Nations’ general assembly, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton attended an event on Monday afternoon designed to highlight the importance of women’s participat…

In early Obama White House, female staffers felt frozen out

NOW President Terry O’Neill is quoted in this article about women working in the White House by Peter Wallsten and Anne E. Kornblut writing for the Washington Post.

Justice Ginsburg: If I Were Nominated Today, My Women’s Rights Work For The ACLU Would Probably Disqualify Me

Ian Millhiser writing for :”In a speech yesterday at Southern Methodist University law school, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg offered a grim assessment of the judicial confirmations process. If she were nominated to the Supreme Court today, her background a…

One Statement from Bachmann, Two Steps Back for HPV Vaccine

Denise Grady writing for the New York Times: “During a debate last week for Republican presidential candidates and in interviews after it, Representative Michele Bachmann called the vaccine to prevent cervical cancer “dangerous.” Medical experts fired ba…