by: Kayla Williams

(From the diaries – promoted by Brandon Friedman)
On Wednesday, I was honored and proud to be invited to the SHOUT!  Art by Women Veterans show put on in San Francisco by Swords to Plowshares, a great organization. It was amazing for me to be around so many other women veterans at one time. [...]

By Erika Lovley, Politico
Are women more effective lawmakers than men?
That’s the preliminary conclusion of a study conducted by researchers at Stanford University and the University of Chicago, who say that on average, women in Congress introduce more bills, attract more co-sponsors and bring home more money for their districts than their male counterparts do.
The study, [...]

By Paul Rieckhoff for Huffington Post - Exec. Director of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America 
If you blinked, you could’ve missed it. With the media’s obsession over Michael Jackson’s death and Sotomayor’s confirmation hearings plastered across cable news shows, an important story might have skipped your radar.
This week, the Government Accountability Office (GAO), the investigative arm [...]

Hard-nosed Biz Guru Says “No” Women Can’t Have it All  - While Shipman/Kay Say Women Need to Re-Write the Rules
By Kathy Groob, Publisher ElectWomen Magazine
The debate rages on whether or not women can have successful careers while balancing a family and home life.  In their new book, Womenomics, journalists Claire Shipman and Katty Kay profess [...]

Rosenthal appointed to advisor post in Obama White House


By Doug Blackburn
DEMOCRAT senior WRITER, Tallahassee.com
Domestic-violence prevention advocates in the Big Bend are championing the appointment of one of their own to a prominent position in the White House.
Lynn Rosenthal, a former executive director of Refuge House as well as past director of Florida Coalition Against Domestic [...]

By ROGER COHEN, New York Times
Iran’s Second Sex, TEHRAN
From Day 1, Iran’s women stood in the vanguard. Their voices from rooftops were loudest, and their defiance in the streets boldest. “Stand, don’t run,” Nazanine told me as the baton-wielding police charged up handsome Vali Asr avenue on the day after the fraudulent election. She stood.
Images [...]

By Dr. Marsha Firestone, contributing Women On Business writer
The Center for Women’s Business Research has just released “Key Facts about Women-Owned Businesses”.  The information is not only useful in keeping us updated on the progress that women in business make each year, but is also a way to track the achievements of businesswomen even in [...]

ElectWomen Magazine Profiles the Top 2009 Political Campaigns for Women
By Kathy Groob, Publisher
Is 2009 an off year for elections?  Not for these women!  While 2009 is generally considered a down year for political elections, there are some hotly contested races that feature viable women candidates.  Primary elections are just around the corner and voters in [...]

By Brandy Bailey, ElectWomen Magazine Contributor
A Presidential Commission on Women is one step closer to becoming a reality.  On April 2nd, Representative Jackie Speier (D-California) introduced legislation regarding the creation of such a Commission that is now moving through Congress.  If approved, the Commission will be responsible for conducting an independent review of the status [...]

Late Tuesday, the U.S. Senate confirmed Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius as the new Health and Human Services Cabinet Secretary.  The Senate approved the nomination of Kathleen Sebelius to head the Department of Health and Human Services, filling the final seat in President Obama’s Cabinet on the eve of his 100th day in office.
Democrats had sought [...]