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The $54 million settlement reached this week in the sex discrimination case against Morgan Stanley carries the promise of more equitable pay and promotions for other women who work at the investment banking giant.
Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Shirin Ebadi said in a major speech yesterday that women’s rights is a fundamental precursor to ending the wars afflicting the globe.
This retrospective exhibition in Philadelphia showcases the work of Elsa Schiaparelli, surrealist artist, fashion designer and business woman, credited with helping to shape a more active identity for women.
Art therapy programs designed for survivors of domestic violence are springing up across the country. The programs do not intend to replace traditional counseling. Instead, participants say, they help them express their emotions in a different way.
The rising jobless rate is often harder on women because their tendency to earn less and work part-time so they can care for family members disqualifies them from unemployment benefits in many states.
A new collection of women’s art from almost every country in the world offers a broad-spectrum vision of the role of women in society.
(WOMENSENEWS)–Events for women only remain very popular throughout the bridge tournament world, one not as lucrative perhaps as golf, but still very much an elite insiders’ game.Recently, Asya Kamsky of Monterey, Calif., has declared she will no longer play in tournaments that include separate events for women, reported The New York Times. Kamsky switched her schedule from playing in a New York City competition this weekend to play at a similar event in Las Vegas. Kamsky is only the most recent top bridge player to protest the women-only games. Late last year, Rose Meltzer became the first female to win an international championship in an “open” field–that is, one that allows either sex to play. By winning the Bermuda Bowl in Paris, described by bridge aficionados as the Wimbledon, Super Bowl and World Series combined, Meltzer became the queen of bridge.”People really believe that women don’t play as well as men,” Meltzer, 59, said in an interview with The Chicago Tribune.
Women around the country are taking plaster casts of their pregnant bellies and turning them into bowls, sculptures and other celebratory artworks memorializing their maternal bodies.
The latest art exhibit in an exclusive Long Island gallery is the latest to hint that a resurgence in interest in the feminist art of the 1970s is well underway.
Judy Chicago’s feminist art installation “The Dinner Party” now has a permanent home at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, where it will be exhibited from Sept. 20, 2002 through Feb. 9, 2003.