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Gloria Steinem Comments on "A Woman's Nation." Let's Hope Chris Matthews Does Not.
Tennessee Guerilla Women — ... Over at the Women's Media Center, Gloria Steinem provides an informative heads-up about the forthcoming multimedia blitz around the $2 million study that aims to be an update on ...

Media Ignores Women's Health Disparities in Shriver Report
Commondreams.org Views — The "battle of the sexes is over" claims the much-heralded Shriver Report: A Woman's Nation Changes Everything on American work and family life. Go ahead, take a victory lap. Unless, of course, you're among the millions of women who still earn 23 percent less on average in wages, pay 38 percent more for gender-rated health insurance or fear losing their jobs while trying to juggle disproportionate family responsibilities without flexible work schedules and reasonable family-leave policies. The year-long study initiated by California First Lady and former NBC News correspondent Maria Shriver and published by the Center for ...

Lys Anzia: From Mother's Dream to "A Woman's Nation" -- Shriver Charts Progress for American Women
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — As someone who also lost an incredible humanitarian mother this year, I can relate deeply to the force behind Marie Shriver’s new report, “A Woman’s Nation.” In one ear echoes the words of Marie’s mother, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, “You can do it, Maria! Get going! Get moving!" In the other ear, come whispers of soft caution as her mother says, “Maria, this may be a man's world, but you can and will succeed in it.” By a long shot, this wasn’t Eunice Shriver’s last word on the subject. I know Maria’s mom, Eunice, would be proud of such a mammoth ...