HEIRESSES AND THE GLASS CEILING. Forbes just released its list of international billionaires, which includes more women than ever before. And the ladies of the anti-feminist Independent Women’s Forum are crowing that this proves women don’t need anti-discrimination or pay equity laws: This is irrefutable proof that women don�t need government programs to help them […]
Ann Friedman
Ann Friedman is a columnist for New York magazine’s website and for the Columbia Journalism Review. She also makes pie charts for The Hairpin and Los Angeles magazine. Her work has appeared in ELLE, Esquire, Newsweek, The Observer, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and many other outlets. She lives in Los Angeles, but travels so often the best place to find her is online at annfriedman.com.
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THE ELEPHANTS IN THE ROOM
THE ELEPHANTS IN THE ROOM. I attended CPAC today to hear two of the “big three” Republican contenders (Rudy Giuliani and Mitt Romney) and one of the second-tier candidates who hopes to break through (Sam Brownback). I’ll say more about them, especially Giuliani, later. But some quick observations about CPAC that simply need to be […]
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Grade Inflation
Every year, Working Mother magazine announces its much-anticipated “100 Best Companies.” Employers leap to publicize their inclusion on the list, and it’s routinely a best-selling issue. But is the “100 Best”– and similar lists published by other magazines and organizations — much more than public relations? Most of the firms that receive the […]
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PLAN B-ACKLASH
PLAN B-ACKLASH. There’s apparently hell to pay when you point out that there’s no scientific or medical reason to deny women over-the-counter access to emergency contraception. Although the Bush administration and Congress requested and allocated a full $4 million in funding for the Office of Women’s Health, the FDA plans to withhold more than a […]
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OSCAR UPDRAFT
OSCAR UPDRAFT. I checked the total signatures at DraftGore.com on Saturday, around noon, the day before the Oscars. The total number of signatories was roughly 39,300. As of noon today, the total is up to 44,470, or about a 13.15 percent jump in just 72 hours. –Tom Schaller
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LET IT BREED
LET IT BREED. Ben, Mark and Ezra have missed an important point. David Brooks is annoyed with selfish, liberal, urban hipster-parents because if procreating becomes cool, the trend will eventually take the wind out of his “new red-diaper babies” theory. After all, hipster babies grow into kindergarten scenesters (see Cobrasnake photos below) and, eventually, adult […]
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GIANT SQUID!
GIANT SQUID! Ok, so not really “giant,” so much as “colossal.” Some long-line fishermen hooked the hefty cephalopod in the Ross Sea near Antarctica. Just how big is this thing? Dr. Steve O’Shea, the squid-hunter made famous by this awesome New Yorker profile from 2004, said if calamari were made from the squid, the rings […]
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A ‘LARRY SUMMERS MOMENT’
A ‘LARRY SUMMERS MOMENT’. Amy Hoffman, editor-in-chief of the Women’s Review of Books, recently reported that she attended a lecture at the Radcliffe Institute by Barry Gewen, an editor at the New York Times Book Review. In what even he described as a “Larry Summers moment” he explained that the reason so few women reviewers […]
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WHO NEEDS THE HPV VACCINE?
WHO NEEDS THE HPV VACCINE? Merrill Goozner opposes mandatory HPV vaccination for sixth-grade girls in the U.S. He writes: By insisting that all young women get this vaccine, public health officials (the Centers for Disease Control last June endorsed universal vaccination, although its recommendations are not binding on the states, which carry out public health […]
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ALL BY OURSELVES
ALL BY OURSELVES. It’s been said that British foreign policy since WWII is animated by the principle of “figuring out what the United States wants, and doing it before asked.” No longer: Tony Blair has announced that the Brits will eventually be pulling out of Iraq. President Bush has now exhausted the patience of our […]
