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Star Jones and Oprah Winfrey embody the cultural tug-of-war faced by African-American teen girls. Recent studies indicate that they too are becoming more vulnerable to the cult of thinness and its accompanying health hazards.
In New York’s chic Tribeca, a little-known but important film festival made its East Coast debut. With 19 films all featuring strong roles for women with a wide range of life experiences, the WinFemme Film Festival exhibited scenes from our lives.
A new, as-yet-untested sexual misconduct policy at Columbia University eliminates a process that apparently was not functioning. However, the new procedures have received a heavy dose of criticism, even from some feminists.
Once it was women athletes and their coaches suing under Title IX to ensure that women had equal access to college educational and sports facilities. Now men and their coaches are lobbying Congress, saying that women’s advances have unjustly deprived men.