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Female candidates suffer at the polls when media reports compliment their looks

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News coverage that focuses on the appearance of a woman running for office will affect her campaign negatively, regardless of context, according to a pair of studies released on Monday. The surveys, commissioned by the Women’s Media Center and the political gender-equality group She Should Run, found that respondents thought…

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Gloria Steinem: Chicago teachers ‘taking it on the chin for 25 years’

Feminist activist Gloria Steinem. Photo: Screenshot via YouTube.

Gloria Steinem, feminist author, activist and co-founder of the Women’s Media Center, said Monday during an interview with progressive talk show host Thom Hartmann that she’s rooting for Chicago’s teachers, who this week embarked on their first major strike in 25 years. “I have no role in this strike,” she…

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In NY for the 2009 Women’s Media Center Awards…

Sorry for being MIA in the pandasphere; I’ve been on the road for the last few days, first in New York to attend the Women’s Media Center Media Awards. [I returned to Durham last night and in a couple of hours and I head to Chicago to be a panelist…

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