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Funding to Push Women for Obama's Cabinet Dries Up

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by Allison Stevens, Women's eNews

November 14, 2008 - 8:00am (Print)

Funding the Women's Appointments Project to suggest women for President Obama's Cabinet hasn't materialized, a blow for a process that has been operating in presidential election years since 1976.
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Taking Stock of Women's Progress at Democratic Convention

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by Allison Stevens, Women's eNews

August 28, 2008 - 8:29am (Print)

Women who supported Hillary Clinton for president may be inclined to measure the Democratic National Convention in Denver for what it is not: a place where history will be made with the first woman at the top of a major-party presidential ticket. Yet the convention can also be used as a measure for what it is: a showcase of the progress women have made over the last century.
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Michelle Obama: Women's New Best Friend?

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by Allison Stevens, Women's eNews

August 27, 2008 - 10:33pm (Print)

Will Michelle Obama be women's rights activists best friend in the White House since Eleanor Roosevelt?
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Michelle Obama: Women's New Best Friend?

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by Allison Stevens, Women's eNews

August 26, 2008 - 4:02pm (Print)

While playing the conventional role of a political wife in her speech on the opening night of the Democratic National Convention in Denver, Michelle Obama stuck in a plug for equal pay.
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Women's Health Caught in Congress's Holiday Rush

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by Allison Stevens, Women's eNews

November 28, 2007 - 9:33am (Print)

Reproductive health advocates are pushing for several bills to become law before Congress adjourns for the holidays. Low-cost contraception and postpartum research are high priorities to make it through the legislative backlog.

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