Women's News | Gloria Steinem Meets Amanda Stenberg | Meet Poised Taupe Where Brown & Grey Have A Baby
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Women's News September 4, 2016 AOC Front Page
Gloria, who came to fame in the early ’60s as an enterprising journalist, has blitzed the world for the past half century with her views on gender equality and women’s rights. She doesn’t have patience for Midtown traffic or the geographically challenged, and it’s clear that age hasn’t quelled her independent spirit. When I offer to take her luggage, she looks at me as if I’ve recommended she reserve a burial plot. “No, thank you,” she says with a laugh. “I’ve got it.”
Waiting upstairs in a suite to interview her is Amandla Stenberg, one of the new guards of feminism. Over the course of her 17 short years, Amandla has schooled the Internet on black hair, rejected the gender binary, and costarred in The Hunger Games. She graduated from high school this week—literally—and arrived earlier this morning on a red-eye from Los Angeles. As a makeup and hair team fusses, Amandla diligently reviews notes. “I had to psych myself up to do this,” she admits. “I’ve admired her a long time, but…I have some questions,” referencing the seemingly exclusionary brand of “white feminism” that defined Gloria’s era.
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Women's News | Roger Ailes & The Revenge of FOX News Women |
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Women's News September 2, 2016 AOC Front Page
It took 15 days to end the mighty 20-year reign of Roger Ailes at Fox News, one of the most storied runs in media and political history. Ailes built not just a conservative cable news channel but something like a fourth branch of government; a propaganda arm for the GOP; an organization that determined Republican presidential candidates, sold wars, and decided the issues of the day for 2 million viewers. That the place turned out to be rife with grotesque abuses of power has left even its liberal critics stunned. More than two dozen women have come forward to accuse Ailes of sexual harassment, and what they have exposed is both a culture of misogyny and one of corruption and surveillance, smear campaigns and hush money with implications reaching far wider than one disturbed man at the top.
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Elizabeth Smart Is Challenging the Way the Mormon Church Talks About Women and Sex @ New York Magazine
Thank Contraception, Not Abstinence, for the Drop in US Teen Pregnancies @ Slate
Marina Abramovic, James Franco, and More: Fanciful Recipes From Artists and Writers @ Vogue.com
National Geographic chose Cristina del Campo Martin's photo 'Flirty Fowl' as their Sept. 1 photo of the day. Just looking at a peacock reminds us of a classic AOC article: Study: Charming Porsche-Driving Men Are Peacocks Seeking Sex. (And women know it!!) See terrific real-peacock mating dance.
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Women's News | Experts See Huge Progress For Females In The IUD Revolution
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Delaware has the highest unintended pregnancy rate in the country — 62 per every 1,000 women between 15 and 44. Fifty-seven percent of the pregnancies in the state are unintentional.
"I used to understand birth control as a way to prevent abortion," Delaware Gov. Jack Markell told me in a recent interview. "That's true, but now I have a different way of looking at it. This is really an issue about opportunity, and the opportunities women get when they have children when they want to."
The Delaware and Upstream partnership is how the mechanical vagina— and a team of Upstream staff members — ended up traveling to the Life Health Center in Wilmington.
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Women's News | Venus Williams Rebounds After Near Miss | Urban Agriculture & Eating Local
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Women's News Headlines August 30, 2016
Venus Williams became a professional tennis player in 1994 at age 14. Venus has seven Grand Slam singles events on her victory belt and 14 more in women’s doubles, won with her sister Serena, 34. Venus, with five Wimbledon singles titles wins, became the first African-American woman in 2002 to "earn the world’s top ranking in tennis since the onset of the open era in the late 1960s."
In 2011, her tennis career slowed, as Venus Williams battled injuries and Sjogren’s syndrome, an autoimmune disorder that results in joint pain and sometimes crushing fatigue. Under assault from the vagaries of life, Williams withdrew from the second round of the United States Open.
But she has regained momentum. . .
Venus Williams Struggles In First US Open Match
Update: Venus Williams narrowly escaped defeat on Tuesday, in the first round of her US Open match with Kateryna Kozlova of Ukraine, ranked 93rd. Venus had played 17 US Opens and never lost in the first round. Having reached the semifinals at Wimbledon, Venus was seeded sixth, her first top 10 seeding at the Open in six years. Read on at the New York Times
Read more Venus in-depth: Women's News Headlines August 30, 2016
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Redtracker | Beyonce Slays the MTV VMAs, Makes 'Lemonade' & Passes Madonna's Wins
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Women's News Headlines August 29, 2016
Four of America's five gold-medal winning Olympic gymnasts hugged 'Lemonade' MTV VMAs winner Beyonce on Sunday night. Teammate Gabby Douglas could not attend due to a medical issue. The faces of Simone Biles, Aly Raisman, Madison Kocian and Laurie Hernandez all beamed as they hugged the Lemonade megastar.
Beyonce won two of the highest honors at last night MTV VMAs, winning Video of the Year and Best Female Video. Her achievements propelled her ahead of Madonna in most career wins. Bey was introduced by Serena Williams, who redefined the little black dress. Williams opens at the New York Open tennis tournament today. Read her weekend in-depth from the NYT.
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Redtracker | TIME Remembers 50,000 People In New York City Demanding Women's Equality
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Women's News Headlines August 26, 2016
Second-wave feminism flexed its mighty muscle on Aug. 26, 1970, as 50,000 women marched down New York City’s Fifth Avenue. Joined by a coterie of men and anti-war protesters, the marchers were celebrating the 50th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, giving American women the vote. They were also demanding changes to the policies that affected women's lives: childcare and abortion policies, education and employment opportunities. Many women abandoned their usual duties for the day, joining with spiritual sisters across the country staging sit-ins and takeovers of all-male bars.
One year to the day after the Women’s Strike for Equality March, Congress passed a resolution designating Aug. 26 as Women’s Equality Day, and 45 years later, the day continues to be a moment to reflect on exactly what has been achieves in the arena of women's rights.
With no Equal Rights Amendment in place for American women, and with the latest research from PEW affirming that over 70% of Republican men and 40% of Democrats believing that sexism is dead in America, older women are challenging younger ones to get real about deep refusal among American men to give women more rights. Particularly precarious for women are the Personhood bills littering state legislatures: Republican-sponsored laws that equates the rights of women with those of a fertilized embryo.
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Redtracker | Julia Haart Named LaPerla Creative Director | Internet Uncorks Topic of Women Drinking
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Women's News Headlines August 25, 2016
One of the world's most luxurious lingerie brands as a new creative director. La Perla remains best known for its glamorous bras, panties, corsets and slip dresses, but Julia Haart wants to reformulate the brand's ready-to-wear offering.
Haart's vision has elements of Donna Karan's original philosophy -- granted not the perfect white shirt -- but a sense that women can be sensual in a suit. AOC calls her a "smart sensuality woman".
“I love that La Perla has this sexy, sensual kind of image, and I certainly would never want to change La Perla’s DNA. My idea is that you can embrace your femininity and it doesn’t have to be only in your undergarments. If you’re wearing a suit, a dress, it should be molded to a female form while still being professional, beautiful, chic, elegant—one does not negate the other,” she said.
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Women's News Headlines August 20, 2016
New research shows Millennial men's well-being improved from staying at home, while women's improved by being the breadwinners. In spite of popular culture images of the emasculated male whose wife makes more money than he does, research shares a much more positive assessment of the situation.
“A lot of the gendered expectations in marriage are left over from a different era,” Christin Munsch, a sociologist at the University of Connecticut, explains. “We expect women to be primarily responsible for child care. When men ‘help out’ they get brownie points.”
Societal expectations that women take primary responsibility for housework and childcare—while men bring home the money—are relics of the breadwinner-homemaker model that, to Munsch, “isn’t really relevant to today's couples.” Reality is that in most marriages today, both people have jobs. Relics of the Ozzie & Harriet past aren't serving modern couples well.
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Donald Trump Embraces Breitbart & Steve Bannon As Campaign Reboots Yet Again
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Donald Trump Embraces Breitbart & Steve Bannon As Campaign Reboots Yet Again
Make no mistake, though. Breitbart has NOTHING good to say about women. This is why 'The Era of 'The Bitch' is coming', writes The Atlantic.
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Researchers Reveal Extinction of St Paul Island Woolly Mammoths
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The majority of woolly mammoths have been extinct for a minimum of 10,000-100,000 years. But new research about woolly mammoths living on a remote island off the coast of Alaska are the subject of a scientific investigation by Prof Russell Graham, from Pennsylvania State University. Graham has focused on a group of woolly mammoths that lived on St Paul Island, located in the Bering Sea, for another 4,500 years.
Scientists have long believed that the woolly mammoths became extinct due to human hunting and environmental connections. It's hoped that some of the research conclusions will have applications to human and animal populations living in areas impacted by climate change.
As the Earth warmed up after the Ice Age, sea levels rose, much as they are today across the globe. Prof Graham believes that as ocean salt water levels rose, available land mass on St Paul Island was reduced, along with necessary for survival freshwater watering holes.
