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Women’s Enews follows the time-honored, daunting tradition of gazing back over the year with its achievements and frustrations and identifying the leaders who will move and shape this century on behalf of all women.
Women’s Enews is covering the tight races in which women are still challengers and is providing a breakdown of the gender gap in this election. Watch this space for further updates.
While women have been gaining in the House and Senate, the picture and forecast are disturbing in the states. Key battles are being waged there for women’s rights and women seem to be losing representation and support on crucial issues.
A battleground state in more ways than one, Michigan features a 20-year political alliance and friendship between two women, one of them challenging a Newt Gingrich conservative, the other vying to keep a House seat in the pro-choice camp.
Women researchers say current science attracts and rewards those who value distance and autonomy, virtues often thought of as male. But women and insist their scientific work be relevant, and, like Nobel prize-winners, prefer teamwork.
The real gender gap is between women’s often-stated concerns about pay equity, health, education and gun control–and candidates’ hollow rhetoric. Women’s number one issue is economic parity. From the Presidential candidates: silence.
In next Tuesday’s Democratic Primary, Washington State’s hard-charging insurance commissioner and populist consumer champion faces a smooth Internet millionaire. They’re close on issues, but Senn rides a Harley, Cantwell drives a Nissan Maxima.
In Minnesota’s election Tuesday, six women are running strong not only against their opponents but also against the state’s history: Voters have never sent a woman to the Senate and have not elected one to Congress since Coya Knutson won in 1951.
The California delegation is brimming with powerful women lawmakers who will preside over the Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles in a way their Republican sisters would envy.
Women activists from five nations that host U.S. military bases drew up their own plans for global security that do not rely on testing bombs and advanced computer technology but call for national autonomy and a healthy environment.