Word: woman
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...idea that ambitious women reach a certain point in their professional lives only to be hauled homeward by some innate maternal imperative has a cultural life all its own. The opt-out myth is especially damaging right now, when job competition is fierce. When a very prominent woman takes on a commitment - say, as governor of a state, whose voters are supposed to be the ones who decide if she's no longer able to be effective - and then walks away, a shudder goes through every venue where women fight to assert their rights and affirm their commitment. How much...
...Could there be a less likely venue in which to ask a woman in a blue T-shirt - "Go Slam a Salmon," it reads - about her plans to run for President? And yet this was the place where her answer finally made sense. It included none of the strange ramblings of her televised resignation speech, which managed, in pure Palin style, to be both plainspoken and inscrutable. For example: "Take the words of General MacArthur. He said, 'We are not retreating. We are advancing in another direction.' " And "Do you want me to make a positive difference and fight...
...best suit, with a plastic iris in his lapel, he waited in Palin's office as she finished a meeting. "She wasn't particularly happy to see us or interested in anything other than getting the ceremony over as quickly as possible," he says. "And this from a woman who had served cupcakes for my birthday at the mansion just six months earlier." That was the last he saw of the governor in Juneau...
...adults whether they have become more conservative or more liberal in recent years, and the answer might suggest a bumpier road ahead for the Administration. Despite the Democratic sweep in 2008, "more conservative" prevailed 2 to 1. Being strong with the right is not a bad place for a woman of ambition to get started...
...response was indeed crushing. Members of the élite Revolutionary Guard and the dreaded paramilitary group the Basij rushed the initial crowd gathered at Enqelab (Revolution) Square with batons at around 5 p.m. One woman who was fleeing the scene had bloodstains on her white skirt splattered from demonstrators nearby. But pockets of protesters numbering in the hundreds soon resurfaced along many of the main streets north and east of Enqelab Square and in the city's main squares. (Read "In Iran, Demonstrations Bring New Violence...