Oklahoma Governor’s Race Part II: Is Motherhood a Qualification on GMA and...
More on the governor’s race in Oklahoma with Republican candidate Mary Fallin and Democratic candidate Jari Askins. Fallin has claimed motherhood is what makes her more qualified, and she’s received...
View ArticleWA Post Ruth Marcus Gets it! Fallin, Put Down the Mommy Card
Postscript to my last two posts that I just have to pass on–thanks to a visitor of this blog who sent me an article by Ruth Marcus, Washington Post columnist on Mary Fallin pulling the mommy card with...
View ArticlePro-Life Women Mid-Term Election Winners
In September I wrote about pro-life women candidates running in the mid term elections. How did they do? On pro-life female Senate candidates… Senate candidate Christine O’Donnell lost to pro-choice...
View ArticleHow Scandal Can Inspire Gender Equality
There is a lot out there on the gender equality issue in politics and business, including the issue that there aren’t enough women, moms or not, in high level positions. Headline Italy—it seems the sex...
View ArticleChildfree Prime Minister Julia Gillard Takes Satirical Heat
Julia Gillard has taken some heat for not having children by choice, and now it’s her sex life that is being satirized. In a recent segment on the Australian comedy show At Home With Julia, there is a...
View ArticleSuch a Thing as a Pro-Life Feminist? Not!
According to the San Francisco Chronicle, Senate candidate Carly Fiorina, the former CEO of Hewlett Packard, is being “heralded as …the vanguard of a new breed of ‘pro-women, pro-life’ feminists” in...
View ArticleThe Political Value of Motherhood
I am pleased to see that Australia’s Julia Gillard gained enough to support to form a minority government and remains Australia’s prime minister. Back while she was campaigning she got major flack for...
View ArticlePro Life Women in the Coming Mid Term Elections
Watching Christine O’Donnell win this the primary in Delaware brought to mind other conservative pro-life women who ran in the primaries, some of whom are now going to be in the mid term elections....
View ArticleSingle and Childfree in Race for Oklahoma Governor
In previous posts I’ve lamented about how women political and judicial candidates get criticized for not being mothers–somehow being childfree makes them less qualified. Well, the issue is up again...
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Up Close & Personal with Gloria Steinem: My Life on the Road
Get ready to take a great ride with writer, political activist and social organizer Gloria Steinem in her new memoir, My Life on the Road. In it she gives an up close and personal account of her...
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