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Posted on February 24, 2011 by Kyla Bender-Baird

In case you never learned or in case you need a refresher, Western States Center offers this video of Loretta Ross, cofounder and national coordinator of SisterSong, Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective, explaining the origin of the phrase "women of color."

Tags: Ross, SisterSong, Western States Center, women of color

Early Childhood Funding at Risk

Posted on February 18, 2011 by Kyla Bender-Baird

Yesterday, the Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP) convened a call with the National Women's Law Center, National Association for the Education of Young Children, and First Five Years Fund. The purpose of the call was to raise awareness about the current precarious position of early childhood funding.

Tags: appropriations, budget, CLASP, Head Start, NWLC, Obama

Gender Equality as an Investment Concept

Posted on February 17, 2011 by Kyla Bender-Baird

Tags: invest in women, Keefe, Pax

What he really meant was...

Posted on February 17, 2011 by Kyla Bender-Baird

Many gasps were uttered when Josef Ackermann, chief executive of Deutsche Bank Germany, made the following remark regarding his company's annual board report: "I hope it will be prettier and more colorful one day". Jacki Zehner, former partner at Goldman Sachs, offered Mr. Ackermann some advice on her blog, Purse Pundit:

Tags: Ackermann, boards, Diversity, Zehner

Posted on February 17, 2011 by Kyla Bender-Baird

By Libby Parker*On February 11th, The National Employment Law Project (NELP) hosted a webinar on Taking Advantage of the Last Chance to Modernize Unemployment Insurance with Recovery Act Incentive Funds. Speakers included Gay Gilbert, the Administrator of the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Unemployment Insurance; Senator John L. Scott of South Carolina, whose state adopted the modernization reforms last year; and NELP Unemployment Insurance (UI) experts, George Wentworth and Maurice Emsellem. With the August 2011 cut off for Recovery Act incentive funds quickly approaching, all the speakers emphasized the need for the remaining 18 states not currently qualified for such funding to modernize their unemployment insurance systems.

Tags: ARRA, NELP, UI

Posted on February 16, 2011 by Kyla Bender-Baird

By Kyla Bender-Baird

Tags: discrimination, NELP

Shining Light on Teen Usage of Social Media

Posted on February 15, 2011 by Kyla Bender-Baird

The Girl Scout Research Institute and the Pew Research Center hosted a call recently on Trends in Teen Communication and Social Media Use: What’s Really Going On?, with speakers Kimberlee Salmond of Girls Scouts Research Institute and Kristen Purcell, Ph.D., of Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project. Both speakers emphasized the importance of teaching teens and young adults about safe online behavior and promoting positive self image.

Tags: Girl Scouts, girls, pew, social media, social networking

Posted on February 10, 2011 by Kyla Bender-Baird

We received the following news from Planned Parenthood this morning:Yesterday the House Appropriations Committee announced that the Title X family planning program ($317 million) will be eliminated in the House leadership’s FY11 Continuing Resolution (CR), which will be considered next week by the full House. This bill is necessary to continue funding the government after March 4 (when the current CR expires) through the end of the fiscal year. Other critical health programs are also targeted for significant reductions – including the maternal and child health block grant program and community health centers.

Tags: family planning, planned parenthood, Title X

Building a Pipeline to Women’s Leadership

Posted on February 08, 2011 by Kyla Bender-Baird

Female students have long surpassed their male peers in the rates at which they seek higher education. Yet across sectors, women’s representation in professional leadership roles has stalled at 15-17%. If women make up the majority of students earning Bachelor’s, Master’s and Doctoral degrees why are there so few women in top management positions? Further aggravating women’s uneven progress, the disparity is often most pronounced in the most lucrative fields, including STEM, economics and finance.

Tags: Afternoon Program, Amex, Bristol Meyers Squibb, Brown, gilligan, Jenkins, Making a Difference, simmons

Posted on February 07, 2011 by Kyla Bender-Baird

Responding to last week's disturbing New York Times front page news that women comprise only 13% of Wikipedia's contributors, NCRW President Linda Basch submitted the following letter, which was published in Sunday's paper:Today women earn 57 percent of the bachelor’s degrees, 61 percent of the master’s degrees and, as of 2009, a majority of doctorates in the United States. It is inconceivable that this well-educated majority should be largely absent from the world’s most popular interactive encyclopedia project.

Tags: Basch, gender gap, NYT, Op-Ed Project, Wikipedia, WMC, Women's eNews