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These businesswomen don’t have environmental backgrounds, but they know it’s time to tailor their business practices to extreme global weather patterns. The fashion designer always paid attention to the weather but now she watches it with an eye to fabric prices.
The Textile Museum in Washington, D.C., showcases Carol Cassidy’s Lao Textiles, a project as inspiring to the heart as it is glorious to the touch. On view through Oct. 13.
France’s legalization of same-sex marriage on April 23 may not have been possible without her courage and eloquence. “A star is born,” say some media, and her style and courage deserve all the admiration she has won.
In the afterglow of the U.S. Women’s Open, which treated the world to great golf between June 27 and July 4, Paula DiPerna offers personal and historic insight into a women’s sport that is enjoying an upswing.
Political campaign costs keep upstarts–and that often means women–out of the running, says one-time congressional candidate Paula DiPerna. End the political-power gap, she argues, with a public fund for first-time candidates.