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...Although women composers are still a distinct minority, Zwilich feels that times are slowly changing. As evidence, she cites such composers as Joan Tower and Elizabeth Larson and says, "In the arts, once the door is open, the door stays open." An unabashed feminist, Zwilich supports the concept of all-women concerts. "I'd love to see the necessity for them simply vanish," she says. "But the reality is they are still needed...
...female bands get the chance to step up. Lilith Fair proved that plenty of ladies are eager to strap on a guitar, but very few seem to want to do it with their sisters--perhaps because they know that the (still) mostly male rock audience inevitably associates all-women bands with either gender politics or tickle fights...
...went to a college reunion. It was an all-women's college, and we were all in our 30s. We were in that high-stress zone. We were trying to make it in the workplace; we were making it in our marriages; we had small children. We were just torn apart by the demands of our lives. We were trying to make everything work. I remember one classmate stood up and wailed and said, "When is it going to be my time?" That stuck with...
Earlier this month, RUS elected Oussama Zahr ’04 political co-chair, making him the first and only male board member of the student group that was established in 1969 as the student government of the all-women Radcliffe College...
DIED. EVELYN TROUT, 97, daredevil pilot of the 1920s and '30s; in La Jolla, CALIF. The first woman to fly an all-night route, trout was the last surviving member of the inaugural All-Women's Transcontinental Air Race, from Santa Monica, Calif., to Cleveland, Ohio, IN 1929--an event Will Rogers dubbed "the Powder Puff Derby...