More coverage of NOW President Terry O'Neill's statement asking the NFL to suspend Oakland Raiders Head Coach Tom Cables while allegations of domestic violence and abuse are investigated: "Coach Tom Cable said Wednesday that he has spoken with Oakland Raiders owner Al Davis about allegations that Cable has a history of violent behavior toward women."
Read More...Read NOW President Terry O'Neill opinion for the Washington Post on women and health care: "Women are providing more health-care services, unpaid, to their family members and receiving fewer health-care services themselves under the current system. A new paradigm for health care that doesn't address this disparity won't be any fairer to women than the failed system we have now."
Read More...A YouTube video from the California Nurses Association about the Weiner Amendment. The synopsis reads, "The Weiner Amendment is a substitute amendment that would replace language in healthcare reforms now being debated in congress with single payer language to provide healthcare for everyone. There is still hope for real change. Please call your congressperson and ask them to support the Weiner Amendment."
Read More...Watch NOW President Terry O'Neill on MSNBC's Dr. Nancy Show:
Is spiking drinks with date rape drugs really happening as often as we think? British researchers think some women are simply unwilling to accept that they drank too much.
NOW Vice President Erin Matson interviewed by Ben Evans of the Associated Press about Democratic Congressman Alan Grayson making a sexist remark about a former lobbyist for Enron: "Amid growing criticism from across the political spectrum, Rep. Alan Grayson said late Tuesday it was inappropriate for him to call Fed adviser Linda Robertson a "K Street whore" during an interview last month on the "Alex Jones Show," a syndicated talk radio program."
Read More...One of the few women ever to write for Late Night with David Letterman, the author (Nell Scovell, a longtime Vanity Fair contributor) remembers a hostile, sexually charged atmosphere. What’s to be done? Start by breaking late night’s all-male gag order.
Read More...ABC's White House Senior Correspondent Jake Tapper blogs about NOW President Terry O'Neill's response to President Obama's all-male athletic outings that leave women out in the decision-making process: "We asked Terry O'Neill, the new president of the National Organization for Women, what she thought of those Democratic women and others quietly complaining about a "boy's club" atmosphere at the White House, as exemplified by the president playing basketball earlier this month with 11 members of Congress and four Cabinet Secretaries -- all men."
Read More...According to Washington Post reporter, Ann Hornaday,"the historical drama, about the pioneering aviatrix Amelia Earhart, represents a major risk in Hollywood, where studio executives have been increasingly chary of making movies about strong women."
Read More...Maria Puente reports for the USA Today: "Secrets, comedian Chris Rock declares slyly, are bad for the human spirit. That's why he's gleefully talking out of school in his new documentary, Good Hair, which has some people rolling in the aisles and others rolling their eyes."
Read More...Jake Tapper interviews Terry O'Neill for a piece on ABC's Good Morning America: Is the White House too much of a boy's club?
Read More...Liza Mundy reports for the Washington Post that "twenty-five years ago, as an exceptionally gifted graduate student at the University of California at Berkeley, [the Nobel Peace Prize winner Carol] Greider, now 48, visited her lab to check an experiment, and discovered evidence of an enzyme called telomerase."
Read More...Chris Joyner reports for the USA Today: "Veronica Rodriguez describes her daughter, 17-year-old Ceara Sturgis, as 'a perfect child'...Sturgis also is gay and feels more comfortable in boys' clothes, her mother says."
Read More...David Fahrenthold from the Washington Post attempts to answer the question of "what's the difference between a man and a woman?"
Read More...David Crary of the Associated Press in New York interviews NOW President Terry O'Neill on what she's done since being elected as president in June: "Men behaving badly. It wasn't a topic that Terry O'Neill expected to find high on her agenda as new president of the National Organization for Women, but she's tackling it with zest and determination."
Read More...Laurie Goodstein writes in the New York Times: "While the recent scandals involving the Roman Catholic Church have focused on the sexual abuse of children, experts say that incidences of priests who have violated sexual and emotional boundaries with adult women are far more common."
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