Two “femme fatales” were in the news last week. Laurie Bembenek, accused killer turned folk hero (“Run, Bambi, Run”) died of liver cancer at the age of 52 in Portland, Ore. A former Playboy bunny and a Milwaukee police officer, Bembenek was convicted of the 1981 murder of her husband’s ex-wife. She escaped from prison [...]
Sure, I am a strong, independent woman, someone who’s been working since my teen years, and doing chores long before that. I don’t ask for any favors because I’m a woman. But I have to admit, I’m not above using charm and a smile to clear those little daily hurdles. Rather than see it as [...]
The professional association 100 Women in Hedge Funds raised $1.6 million at its annual New York gala on Wednesday night for Big Brothers Big Sisters of America, the youth mentoring organization. The event, at Cipriani 42d Street in Manhattan, also honored the Texas billionaire T. Boone Pickens and Dorothy Collins Weaver, chairwoman and chief executive [...]
Since Jeannette Rankin was elected as the first woman to serve in Congress in 1917, members of the fairer sex have proven able representatives of the people’s choice. Despite the fact that a record number of women candidates ran for congressional office in the 2010 midterm elections, however (with a total of 152 female candidates [...]
I was at Rider University in New Jersey last week and sat in on a global studies class that has a video link-up with Kufa University in Najaf, Iraq. The link failed the day I was there but the professor used the time to discuss the focus of the class, which is about what constitutes [...]
In the final stretch of this volatile and polarizing midterm election, while the beleaguered Democrats duck to ward off an approaching Republican steamroller, rippling cracks are widening in two of the most reliable and loyal Democratic voting blocs, women and Latinos.The past several weeks have exposed troubling frustration, anger and apathy among white Democratic female [...]
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