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The NYT Issue on Women: "A Persuasive Argument"

By Amanda Marcotte, RH Reality Check

September 10, 2009 - 7:00am

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Kristof and WuDunn persuasively argue that fighting for women’s equality around the world, especially in developing countries, is the moral issue of our time.

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"Lady-Mags"--Love Them, Flaws and All, or Leave Them?

By Sarah Seltzer, RH Reality Check

September 4, 2009 - 7:00am

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The paradox of women's glossies: They largely acknowledge our progress and rights in terms of the workplace, sexual freedom and reproductive rights, but only skim the surface of the sexist dynamics and expectations that inform those issues.

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Struggle in a World of Privilege: A Mad Men Salon

By Pamela Merritt, RH Reality Check

August 21, 2009 - 7:00am

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Even as we anticipate watching the women who work at Sterling Cooper struggle with changing gender roles, we are watching that struggle take place in a privileged world.

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You Can't Keep the Lid On Forever: A Mad Men Salon

By Amanda Marcotte, RH Reality Check

August 20, 2009 - 7:00am

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"Mad Men" is all about the hard truths, and the hard truth is that being a woman forging her own path in the early 60s was very lonely indeed.

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Pour A Stoli While the World Burns: A Mad Men Salon

By Sarah Seltzer, RH Reality Check

August 18, 2009 - 7:00am

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Hold on to your hats: the 60s are coming to Sterling Cooper! Will Don Draper and his ilk go from icons of cool to losers holding back the tide of progress?

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I Am A Mad Woman

By Crystal Merritt

August 13, 2009 - 2:06pm

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The number and influence of women in advertising have grown to such an extent that we must now hold ourselves accountable for what we achieve, and how.

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Women or Objects? A "Mad Men" Salon

By Amanda Marcotte, RH Reality Check

August 13, 2009 - 7:00am

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True, second wave feminists didn't burn their bras--or their girdles or their garters--but "Mad Men" suggests that they probably should have.

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Nostalgia for Those Louts: A "Mad Men" Salon

By Sarah Seltzer, RH Reality Check

August 12, 2009 - 7:00am

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Astute and unflinching examination of gender politics has proved to be the secret of the rise of "Mad Men" in popular culture. RH Reality Check is hosting a salon on the program.

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Selecting the Same Sex

By Merle Hoffman, On The Issues Magazine

August 10, 2009 - 6:00am

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While sex selective abortion allows women to make what is, in a sense, the ultimate in supposedly informed consumerism, it also can work to create a world where being female is viewed as the primary and most terminal of birth defects.

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Men Are From Apatow-Land, Women Are From Venus

By Sarah Seltzer, RH Reality Check

August 7, 2009 - 7:00am

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In "Funny People," men are always from Mars and women from Venus--and the central question is how Mars should gently approach Venus despite his libidinous need to fornicate with her.

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