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Women Orchestral Conductors in America: The Struggle for Acceptance—An Historical View from the Nineteenth Century to the Present

By Shelley M. Jagow Orchestral conducting has been the latest door of opportunity to open for women in the field of music.

UNSPINNING THE SPIN

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Unspinning the Spin is a guide on the background, current uses, accuracy, nonbiased alternatives, and best practices for choosing and de-coding commonly used words and phrases. at The Women’s Media Center

Journalists Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov win Nobel peace prize

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Campaigning journalists from the Philippines and Russia have won the 2021 Nobel peace prize as the Norwegian committee recognised the vital importance of an independent media to democracy and warned it was increasingly under assault.

Recovering Women’s Reproductive Lives, One Mutilated Record at a Time

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by Catherine Prendergast Catherine Prendergast is a Professor of English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, a Guggenheim Fellow, and a Fulbright Scholar. Her latest book and first work of narrative nonfiction is The Gilded...

Difference Between Healing and Curing

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Michael Lerner, PhD In my thirty years of working with cancer patients, I’ve seen a profound distinction between curing and healing.

A River Reawakened

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By Jessica Plumb in Orion Ten Years of Rewilding the Elwha Watershed IN SEPTEMBER 2011, I stood on a river overlook with children from my daughter’s elementary school, all of us transfixed by a giant jackhammer pounding cement to rubble.

North Carolina League of Conservation Voters

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We advocate for your environmental values to protect your family and community.

Ph.D. candidate named Ruth Bader Ginsburg Predoctoral Fellow

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By Emma Rothberg June 9, 2021 The National Women’s History Museum has named Emma Rothberg, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of History, as an inaugural U.S. Supreme Court Ruth Bader Ginsburg Predoctoral Fellow in Gender Studies....

The Trailblazing Women of Stand-Up Comedy

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By Mariana Brandman The story of the female pioneers of American stand-up comedy often begins and ends with icons Phyllis Diller and Joan Rivers.

Who Was Pauli Murray?

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On a recent episode of Amicus, Dahlia Lithwick discussed the legacy of Pauli Murray—a Black, non-binary, queer, feminist, civil rights pioneer who was also a poet, a teacher, a lawyer and legal activist, and ultimately an Episcopal priest—with...

Frances Perkins, 1911

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by Heather Cox Richardson in Letters from an American On March 25, 1911, Frances Perkins was visiting with a friend who lived near Washington Square in New York City when they heard fire engines and people screaming. They rushed out to the...