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OBAMA & MICHELLE

There is music in the air. We are only halfway through the first 100 days of the Obama administration and there’s reason for women to sing, dance, cheer, and shout out.

President Barack Obama has signed an executive order creating the White House Council on Women and Girls. Its mission:

"… to provide a coordinated federal response to the challenges confronted by women and girls and to ensure that all Cabinet and Cabinet-level agencies consider how their policies and programs impact women and families."

Its Chair: Valerie Jarrett, Assistant to the President and Senior Advisor, and will include as members cabinet-level federal agencies. The Executive Director of the Council will be Tina Tchen, Deputy Assistant to the President and Director of the Office of Public Liaison at the White House. Its purpose, said Obama:

"…. to ensure that American women and girls are treated fairly in all matters of public policy…. issues like equal pay, family leave, child care and others are not just women’s issues, they are family issues and economic issues. Our progress in these areas is an important measure of whether we are truly fulfilling the promise of our democracy for all our people." March 11/09

Said Kim Gandy, President of the National Organization for Women, which had long pressed for a Cabinet-level office to work on women´s issues. Said Gandy: "We asked for a Cabinet-level office to work on women´s issues, and we got the entire Cabinet."
http://www.now.org/press/03-09/03-11.html

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HERSTORY BUFFS

Want to walk, skip and jump through the highlights and lowlights of the «fairer sex»?

Associate Professor of Mass Communications Mike Eberts of Glendale College in Glendale California invited students to churn through the net for links for women’s history, from Herstory to science, art, business, sports, around the world, in language and writing to "guerrillas, goddesses and others http://english.glendale.cc.ca.us/womhist.html. Not enough? If women ‘s history, women’s accomplishments, women’s success is your thing, check out http://www.femina.com for links galore!

Check out the women profiled by MSN, which they call a review of style, but we call the everlasting draw of unforgettable women: Iman as Althea Gibson who at 23 broke the colour barrier for women’s competition in major US tourneys to Alexis Bledel as Rose the Riveter, to Alicia Keyes as Michelle Obama – Icons from the past and in the making. http://lifestyle.msn.com/your-look/womens-history-month

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