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When she was elected to a third term as president of the National Organization for Women last July, Eleanor Smeal vowed to take the depleted and discouraged women's movement "back into the streets." In Washington last week, Smeal and more than 80,000 feminists from as far away as Texas and Minnesota did just that with a march along Pennsylvania Avenue to reaffirm their support for legal abortion and birth control. It was the largest women's rights demonstration since a 1978 rally for the never ratified Equal Rights Amendment, and the number of marchers completely eclipsed...
Foreign delegations, many from developing countries, will also march this Sunday. Seem strange? It’s not. Harmful conditions on American foreign aid are killing thousands of women around the world. According to Ellie Smeal, president of the group Feminist Majority which is cosponsoring the march, “We used to say, ‘if we lose (abortion rights) women will die.’ You will not hear that at this march. You will hear, ‘women are dying, are being injured, because it is now driven home how devastating these policies...
...firm-years. The bottom line: having a COO lowered returns on assets an average of about 1%. For a company with $1 billion in assets, that means a $10 million dent in annual profits, according to the study's lead author, Donald Hambrick of Pennsylvania State University's Smeal College of Business. Says Hambrick: "The two broad possible explanations are that the CEO-COO duo is an inferior arrangement or that it is a sign of an inferior CEO." Our guess is that underachieving CEOs will point to the former...
...Washington two weeks ago, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice and the President's Special Counselor, Karen Hughes, met with Eleanor Smeal, president of the Feminist Majority, and Mavis Leno, who has long worked to bring attention to the problems of Afghan women. "We asked the Administration to make returning women to equal status under the law a nonnegotiable issue in forming any new government," says Leno, wife of Tonight Show host Jay Leno. "That's pretty much the language Colin Powell used when he spoke at the State Department [last week], so it appears the government is going...
...Washington two weeks ago, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice and the President's Special Counselor, Karen Hughes, met with Eleanor Smeal, president of the Feminist Majority, and Mavis Leno, who has long worked to bring attention to the problems of Afghan women. "We asked the Administration to make returning women to equal status under the law a nonnegotiable issue in forming any new government," says Leno, wife of Tonight Show host Jay Leno. "That's pretty much the language Colin Powell used when he spoke at the State Department [last week], so it appears the government is going...