Weekly Column: WRighteous – #ThanksGivingLove
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Because they saw beauty in you before you ever did.
Arts & Culture
Women’s eNews Is a Garden, Bearing Fruit of Change
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This season, my father’s gardens filled our home with hard work, nutrition, hopes for the next season and thankfulness. For me now, gratitude comes for the support for our work in journalism, one that grows a harvest of positive change.
Leadership
Nourish Your Women’s Network and Feed Leadership
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At some point in the great American feast day, sit back, relax and give thanks to all the women you know, in so many different ways. Imagine how easy it would be to introduce a few women and fill the pipeline to U.S. women’s leadership.
American history
Mayflower Women Anchor Thanksgiving to Plymouth
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There have been many New World thanksgivings, but the Pilgrim version that we celebrate today was made possible by the hardship and heroism of women and promulgated by New England schoolmarms.
Black Friday
Black Friday Workers Face the Annual Stress Test
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Some started handling “doorbuster” events yesterday, on Thanksgiving. Others are getting up at dawn today. The second of two stories on retail workers’ scheduling stress.
Arts & Culture
Give Thanks and Please Pass the Potato Fudge
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On Thanksgiving, the typical turkey dinner comes with an array of ethnic additions. In this delicious excerpt from her 2008 book, “Thanksgiving, the True Story,” Penny Colman surveys everything from Greek pastitsio and Puerto Rican roast pig to Lithuania headcheese and Chinese fried rice.
Arts & Culture
Single Moms Serve Up Worries With Their Feast
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Today’s menu for many single mothers will be a poignant mixture of delight with their families with concern about their financial futures. With that in mind, two reporters backtracked to find two single mothers who had been featured in the past.
Arts & Culture
Organic Farmer Plucks Her Thanksgiving Turkeys
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Female farmers are seeking advice from an agricultural organization that helps them succeed in a male-dominated field. One woman who was told she couldn’t do it 30 years ago is plucking her Thanksgiving turkeys.
Arts & Culture
Women Should Buy Into Holiday Shopping Boycott
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The biggest retail day of the year hovers at the end of this month. Susan Feiner flags the reasons why women, in particular, need to resist the “buy” buttons that advertisers are trying to push and to join a consuming boycott.
Arts & Culture
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Thanksgiving Tastes Sweet and Sour to U.S. Women
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With a Madame Speaker of the House arriving in the New Year, women have a political horn of plenty to enjoy this Thanksgiving. Peggy Drexler says Tuesday’s Global Gender Gap report shows how far U.S. women still have to go.