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Special Oscar Edition: Weekend Reading on Women's Representation February 26, 2016

February 26, 2016

Hello movie fans!As some of you may know, the Academy uses ranked choice voting to select best picture, best actor, and best actress. You can learn more about how the Oscar voting process works...

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Weekend Reading on Women's Representation February 19, 2016

February 19, 2016

Dear all,Historical note:Susan B. Anthony - champion of women's suffrage and equality lived from February 15, 1820 to March 13, 1906. Her arrest for voting in 1872 led to a very public trial. In...

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Weekend Reading on Women's Representation February 12, 2016

February 12, 2016

Dear friends,In a piece on Vox, Tez Clark revisits University of Chicago law professor Nicholas Stephanopoulos' paper that explores political power through the lens of race and gender. His conclusion is that women are...

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Weekend Reading on Women's Representation February 5, 2016

February 05, 2016

Dear friends,The extraordinary Frederick Douglass was born in February 1818 and died on February 20, 1895. His devotion to women's suffrage, among many causes, was so complete that in 1872 he was chosen to be...

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Weekend Reading on Women's Representation January 29, 2016

January 29, 2016

Dear friends,What a busy week in the world of presidential politics.Hats off yet again to the team at Presidential Gender Watch a program of the Center for American Women and Politics, Rutgers University, and...

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Weekend Reading on Women's Representation January 22, 2016

January 22, 2016

(from the fabulous offices of Whitman Insight Strategies - seems like a fitting challenge to us all!)Dear friends,I hope you have all had a great week and that those of you in the path...

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Weekend Reading on Women's Representation January 15, 2016

January 15, 2016

Dear friends,This week marked the birthday of Alice Paul, born in 1885 she was a suffragist, Quaker, author of the ERA, New Jersey born and bred, who said this about equality “when the Quakers...

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Weekend Reading on Women's Representation January 8, 2016

January 08, 2016

Here are a couple of pieces that caught my eye this week:Adrienne Kimmell, executive director of the Barbara Lee Family Foundation wrote a piece that appeared in Refinery29 on the swearing double-standard for women...

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Weekend Reading on Women's Representation December

December 31, 2015

Dear friends and allies,I thought I would share a few things that have captured my attention in the last couple weeks in case any of you are sitting around in front of a cozy...

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Weekend Reading on Women's Representation December 18, 2015

December 18, 2015

Dear friends of gender parity,It's a busy time of year for all of us so I thought I would send along a couple videos to watch:The first video from Now This entitled: A United Nations Report...

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