" Without female support or woman-centric policies, she says, "they're not feminists.
New Hampshire, in fact, is national headquarters for the Year of the Woman, with an all-female Congressional delegation, a female governor, and a woman-controlled state legislature.
The first is the patriarchal mind-set that traps women in stereotypical female roles and stigmatizes any woman who tries to break out of this mold.
Pelosi is being recognized for 25 years in politics and as the nation's first female House speaker and first woman to lead a major U.S. political party.
Brazil made history yesterday, when the country elected former chief of staff Dilma Rousseff as its President, making her the highest ranking woman and first female head of state there.
It was remembered that, as a minister, he once allowed a woman singer to perform in public (even though it was to a female audience only, the Islamic Republic bans any woman singing solo).
The police department is just 17% female, generations after the first woman joined.
Acosta-Alzuru is currently analyzing the reaction to a new Venezuelan telenovela "La Mujer Perfecta" ("The Perfect Woman") whose female protagonist has Asperger's Syndrome.
She is currently Pakistan's top female player and ranked the 49th best woman in the world.
And just over half of her senior management team is female, which is typical for a woman-created enterprise.
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She had come from a place where nothing was expected of a woman to being the first female elected to Afghanistan's Parliament, a body reformed after the war.
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We hear stories about a woman imposing higher standards on a female subordinate and determine that women are tougher on other women.
Scholfield said seeing a woman behind the service counter makes female customers more comfortable and therefore more likely to keep coming back.
But in 2007, with no formal training, Pic became the only female chef in France (and only the fourth woman in history) to earn the culinary world's top honor -- a three-Michelin-star rating -- for her family's restaurant, La Maison Pic, in the Rhone-Alpes town of Valence.
The head of Rio's police, a woman, had him replaced him by a female officer.
But what if you are a young woman who is feeling dumped on by a female boss.
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Souter to become the second woman on the court and only the third female justice in the history of the Supreme Court.
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Rice served under President George W. Bush as the first female national security adviser and the first African-American woman to hold the post of secretary of state.
Ninety percent of the people we polled say they would vote for a woman for president and 75% say a female president would be a good thing for the country.
In 1999, Mary Lou found the answer and started Just Ask A Woman, a marketing and branding consultancy focused on female consumers.
Her lawyer argues that she is listed as female on her passport and identity card, and considered a woman in every other aspect of her life.
Another female inmate imprisoned in a security facility recalled seeing an elderly woman made to do repetitive exercises until she passed out and died on the floor.
Kagan, 50, has achieved a number of firsts in her career: She is the first woman dean of Harvard Law School and the first female U.S. Solicitor General.
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And since men who are financially dependent have more to lose if they leave unfaithful wives, female infidelity is less likely to lead to divorce when the woman makes more.
Given his first appointment to the high court, most observers expect Obama will appoint a woman, since the court currently has only one female justice and Obama was elected with strong support from women.
It is a truly unfortunate fact of nature that, when a group of men (criminals in this case) are stranded on an island, away from a woman for a long period of time, any female will be of interest.
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Transamerica (Opens Dec. 3) Desperate Housewife Felicity Huffman plays a pre-op male-to-female transsexual who is about to have surgery to become a woman when she discovers that years earlier, she fathered a son, who is now a gay hustler in New York.
Inevitably, other firsts come up: one of the first female Googlers, the first to have a baby and the top woman in the company.
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He said his studies with co-worker Craig Roberts showed female attractiveness also fluctuated throughout the menstrual cycle, peaking at a woman's most fertile days.
For Burns, a woman who one day hopes to see an all-female list, the lack of nominations in recent years is down to one thing: sexism.
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