Glenda Crank Holste, Author at Women's eNews

Child Care Eats up to Quarter of Family Income

By Glenda Crank Holste ● Politics ● January 26, 2001

High costs and increasing demands for child care highlight the importance of subsidies, Head Start, state-funded pre-kindergarten, pretax savings accounts and tax credits that can make child care more affordable for working families.

Women’s Giving Circles Rapidly Spreading

By Glenda Crank Holste ● Uncategorized ● December 18, 2000

Just as the investment clubs served as vehicles for women to learn how to shape their financial future, these new giving circles provide an opportunity for women to learn about philanthropy and determine where their charitable dollars will be spent.

Lame-Duck Congress May Cut Children’s Programs

By Glenda Crank Holste ● Crime & Law ● November 21, 2000

Children’s advocates are calling on a divided Congress reconvening in December to put children first in their deliberations and approve conference agreements to increase federal funding for child care, Head Start and after-school programs.

Women Athletes Often Debased by Media Images

By Glenda Crank Holste ● Arts & Culture ● October 17, 2000

Photos of successful male athletes overwhelmingly show them in serious, action poses, while powerhouse women are often trivialized, romanticized, and sexualized. Experts say their depictions have become increasingly degrading.

U.N. Report Says Gender Bias Perpetuates Poverty

By Glenda Crank Holste ● Politics ● October 2, 2000

Ending gender discrimination must become an urgent human rights and development priority worldwide, because the pathologies of gender bias not only harm individual women, men and children, but also prevent human and economic progress.

U.N. Report on Gender Inequality: Sidebar

By Glenda Crank Holste ● Politics ● October 1, 2000

Top Woman in Organized Labor Is Stumping for Gore

By Glenda Crank Holste ● Politics ● September 2, 2000

Union leader Linda Chavez-Thompson urges local union officers to personally contact each union member about the anti-labor stances of fellow Texan Bush. Click here for Spanish version.

Lï¿½der sindicalista aboga por el voto pro-Gore

By Glenda Crank Holste ● Politics ● September 2, 2000

Linda Chavez-Thompson exhorta a los funcionarios sindicales a comunicarse personalmente con miembros antes de las elecciones. Lea la versiï¿½n en inglï¿½s.

No Fireworks, Just Pride Bursting in Air

By Glenda Crank Holste ● Politics ● August 30, 2000

Political leaders dedicated a memorial to Minnesota’s heroes in the 72-year campaign for women’s suffrage, ending the absence of women among the carved and cast monuments on the state Capitol lawn.

Uppity Lady Labor Leader Leads Immigrants to Win

By Glenda Crank Holste ● Employment ● August 14, 2000

Just as old time immigrants from Europe energized the struggling American labor movement last century, today’s new immigrants, whether from Somalia or Malaysia, are increasingly important, wooed by labor and readily galvanized.

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