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It’s official. Marrisa Mayer, recently appointed CEO of Yahoo, gave birth to her first child earlier this week. Mayer raised quite a stir last June, partly because at the age of 37, she is the youngest female CEO of a Fortune 500 company, but even more so because she was seven months pregnant when she more »
In 1977, 20,000 women came together at the National Women’s Conference in Houston Texas and drafted The National Plan of Action. It is a call to action on twenty-six social issues that affect women, including battered women, child abuse, child care, disabilities, education, minority women, reproductive freedom and sexual preference.
I am a passionate feminist and I have championed women’s rights for the better part of my life. We’ve come a long way since the 70s, but we cannot lose sight of the fact that our hard work, and the ground we gained, could be relinquished if we take it for granted.