Sheryl Sandberg lingered on stage last week in Davos after leading a panel on “Women as the Way Forward,” and found herself surrounded by a dozen fans -- all save one of them female.
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The 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals is set to hear the case against a New York City law intended to deter women from seeking help at New York City Pregnancy Resource Centers.
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The law was initially passed by Gov. Rick Perry The Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday upheld a Texas law that requires women seeking an abortion to have a sonogram exam and to listen to a physician's detailed description of the fetus, including whether it has developed limbs or internal organs.
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(Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) A post by Whitney Hess is making the rounds in New York?s circle of women entrepreneurs in technology titled ?The plain numbers about women in tech - The VCs?. She takes an empirical look at the gender ratio of venture capital firms focusing on early-stage funding, that ...
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The latest Gallup Poll on guns says that 47 percent of Americans now have guns, more than any time since 1993, and women are buying in increasing numbers.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Mayor Michael Bloomberg's administration went to court on Friday to defend its controversial new application process at homeless shelters, arguing no rules were broken when the policy was adopted without public scrutiny. The city's Department of Homeless Services in November tried to reduce the number of individual men and women seeking a bed at a city shelter by requiring ...
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Seeking Social Change Leader to Develop Innovative Strategies that Improve Women's Lives NEW YORK, Jan. 31, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Ms. Foundation for Women is pleased to announce the launch of a new fellowship program designed to develop leaders who are advancing...
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Strong women were everywhere at Sundance last week -- and they flourished in three of the festival's standouts: Smashed, The Surrogate, and Middle of Nowhere. What's perhaps most interesting is that these women are in more traditional "caretaker" roles, not...
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"View from the Fest" is a series of profiles written by organizers and participants in the 2012 Women's Film Festival, a benefit for the Women's Freedom Center, which runs from March 9-18 at the Latchis Theater and New England Youth Theatre in Brattleboro.
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NEW YORK -- High school senior Fiona Lowenstein is not known for a lack of self-confidence -- after all, she once approached federal lawmakers for a sixth-grade paper on women and politics.
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