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Kay Steiger

Kay Steiger is managing editor at Raw Story and a former Prospect editorial assistant.

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THE 'WOMEN'S VOTE.'

Kay SteigerJan 29, 2007

THE 'WOMEN'S VOTE.' Linda Hirshman's column in the Post yesterday was yet another commentary that focuses on Clinton-as-the-first-female-presidential-candidate angle. Hirshman concludes what seems obvious to me: women will never overwhelmingly support one candidate just because they are women. She says historically, women have never made a decisive difference in an election, with perhaps the exception of 1996.

NO WAY OUT.

Kay SteigerJan 11, 2007

NO WAY OUT. A friend of mine was upset to learn that her son's deployment in Iraq has been extended, and now he won't be able to return in time to attend law school in the fall as he had hoped. Her son, who enlisted before September 11, is one of the many National Guardsmen whose tours have been extended to supply troops for the surge. It's important to remember that real families and soldiers will have to make sacrifices.

She forwarded me a notice sent to family members of National Guardsmen. Here is the full text of the email, which was sent out within hours of Bush's speech:

GAGGING.

Kay SteigerJan 05, 2007

GAGGING. Campus Progress's Rebecca Buckwalter-Poza did a fantastic job of writing about the Global Gag Rule, which never gets enough media attention. When we put abstinence-only provisions on our global aid, we put women around the world at severe risk. Americans vastly overestimate the amount that actually goes in to foreign aid; it's a safe bet that they also don't know that such provisions have been put into place. Perhaps we can put this on Congress's ever-lengthening "to do" list.

BODY COUNT.

Kay SteigerJan 05, 2007

BODY COUNT. I realized as I was reading Spencer's recordings of each soldier's death release that the DOD has, perhaps intentionally or unintentionally, made the fatalities boring. The press releases are a dull monotone -- a template into which soldiers' names, hometowns, and circumstances of death are inserted (with a note that they died "supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom").

IF ONLY I LIVED IN SWEDEN.

Kay SteigerNov 28, 2006

IF ONLY I LIVED IN SWEDEN. The World Economic Forum recently released its Global Gender Gap Report for this year. The United States ranked 22 on the list. Although it (barely) ranked above countries like Tanzania, it fell short of South Africa, Sri Lanka, and Croatia.

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