women

Girls Rule.

by Katrina on November 15, 2012

Cross-posted on The Huffington Post Ladies, we are having a very good year. This election, a record number of women—binders and binders full of them—ran for office, and…best of all…won. In the new Congress, we will have 20 female Senators, up from 17. We will have the first openly gay senator, Tammy Baldwin, in Wisconsin. […]

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Guerrilla art: “Women are heroes”

by Katrina on October 25, 2010

JR is a 27-year-old guerrilla artist whose work has appeared all over the world. The video below shows one of his recent projects called “Women Are Heroes.” I first heard about it when JR won the TED Prize* last week. Never in a million years would I have thought that getting women who had been […]

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Divas, madonnas, and working mamas

by Katrina on May 14, 2010

The other day I saw Jennifer Siebel Newsom, the First Lady of San Francisco, speak at the Commonwealth Club about women and the media. She’s producing a very ambitious documentary called “Miss Representation,” about how the media under-represents women in positions of power and influence. She showed a short clip of the film, which included […]

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