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V-Day Spotlights Katrina’s Forgotten Misery

By Jeanine Plant ● Politics ● April 6, 2008

This week V-Day, the global movement to end violence against women and girls, marks its first decade with events in the New Orleans Superdome. Proceeds will benefit women working in the Katrina area, which founder Eve Ensler says is being forgotten.

Matloff Breaks Silence on Reporters’ Sex-Assault

By Jeanine Plant ● Arts & Culture ● February 4, 2008

After 20 years covering war and conflict, Judith Matloff has brought to light the high rates of sexual harassment and abuse that female reporters face in the field. Her work has broken a journalism taboo and opened an industry dialogue about safety.

Publisher Imprints Women’s Voices on Book World

By Jeanine Plant ● Employment ● May 7, 2007

A commercial publisher is trying to break the business mold for marketing books to women by printing titles that are serious and appealing. Their new imprint, Voice, debuted last month with Leslie Bennetts’ controversial “The Feminine Mistake.”

Planning Ahead Still Advised for Morning After

By Jeanine Plant ● Uncategorized ● November 30, 2006

Plan B, the ‘morning after pill,’ became available without prescription this month, but access barriers persist. Advocates urge women to stock up ahead, prepare for the high cost and, if they prefer, send a guy over 18 to face the pharmacist.

Anti-Unpaid-Work Polemicist Riles Full-Time Moms

By Jeanine Plant ● Arts & Culture ● September 8, 2006

Linda Hirshman has offended plenty of stay-at-home mothers with her polemic in praise of paid work and against house chores. But many also credit her for pressing a subject neglected by “workplace feminism.”

NOW’s Under-30 Crowd Heads to Weekend Retreat

By Jeanine Plant ● Politics ● July 21, 2006

NOW hosts a gathering for women under 30 at its annual conference this weekend. Some of those attending say their key concerns are birth-control access, abortion, caregivers’ rights and human trafficking. Some participants are in their teens.

Practice Makes ‘Sequencing’ Look Less Perfect

By Jeanine Plant ● Arts & Culture ● May 4, 2006

Arlene Rossen Cardozo generated buzz in the late 1980s when she wrote “Sequencing,” a book proposing that women can have it all, just not all at once. Twenty years later she and other researchers have probed the limits of that advice.

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