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Mockery of Katherine Harris Shows Double Standard

By Caryl Rivers ● Commentary ● November 29, 2000

When women reach middle age and finally have a crack at power and influence, they are struck by the pervasive double standard of aging: Men can look like unmade beds and gain in gravitas while women are judged ruthlessly on their looks and often silenced.

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Significance of Black Women’s Vote Ignored

By Yvonne Scruggs-Leftwich ● Commentary ● November 15, 2000

The swing-vote power of the African-American women’s vote has been largely overlooked, dismissed or relegated to footnote status, although it has determined key races. But appreciation could mean successful strategies for voter education and mobilization.

First Lesson on the Ways of Hollywood

By Brenda Feigen ● Commentary ● November 13, 2000

Pro-Choice Forces Pick Up Senate, House Seats

By Womens Enews Staff ● Commentary ● November 9, 2000

Women prepared as never before and they scored significant gains, winning seats, placing more women in the pipeline for the future and getting out the vote in coalitions with African-Americans and labor in Michigan, Florida and elsewhere.

Woman’s Quest for Solo Parenthood Ignites Debate

By Leslie Cannold ● Commentary ● October 25, 2000

A ruling that unmarried women could seek in vitro fertilization has created a political firestorm now threatening Australia’s sex discrimination law. The furor is really about fatherhood and women’s economic independence, Cannold argues.

A Coal Miner’s Daughter Is Fighting King Coal

By Dan LeRoy ● Commentary ● October 16, 2000

Mountain Party candidate for governor, Denise Giardina, is taking on West Virginia’s coal industry and demanding an end to brutal mountaintop removal that she calls a sin. The incumbent, a former coal company executive, is considered a likely winner.

Women Voters May Have Double Standards Too

By Caryl Rivers ● Commentary ● October 13, 2000

U.S. Senate hopeful Hillary Rodham Clinton may be riding the coattails of a famous relative and may also be trying to vindicate her spouse, as her female critics claim. Caryl Rivers argues: So what? The guys do it too and are not judged as harshly.

Reno Bartender Fired for Refusing to Wear Makeup

By no-author ● Arts & Culture ● October 9, 2000

Of Aboriginal Girls, Police and Rape

By Roberta Sykes ● Commentary ● October 4, 2000

Don’t Link Bankruptcy, Domestic Violence Bills

By Elizabeth Warren ● Commentary ● October 4, 2000

Pitting women against women. A bad bankruptcy bill that would force ex-wives to compete with credit card companies to collect child support should not be the price of reauthorizing a good bill that funds domestic violence shelters for women.