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The Women's Museum Premieres 'Daughters of the Earth: Icons of Native American Women'

DALLAS, May 9 /PRNewswire/ -- The Women's Museum, a Smithsonian affiliate, today announced the opening of "Daughters of the Earth: Icons of Native American Women." The exhibit offers a historic and cultural tour through the day-to-day lives of Native American women via a collection of hand-crafted artifacts that are now showing together for the first time. The exhibit runs May 9 through July 14 at the museum in Dallas.

2008 L'Oreal USA Fellowships for Women in Science Awarded to Five Groundbreaking Researchers

Newswise — Today, Laurent Attal, President and CEO, L'Oréal USA, and Dr. Ralph J. Cicerone, President, National Academy of Sciences, honored the 2008 recipients of the esteemed L'Oréal USA Fellowships For Women in Science at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. These women were recognized for conducting innovative and breakthrough research across a range of disciplines, including neuroscience, oceanography, and aerospace engineering. Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson, President of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, was also honored with the L’Oréal USA For Women in Science Role Model Award, for raising awareness of the critical role that women play in the sciences.

The Political Power of Sex Exposed in International Museum of Women's Global Online Exhibition

SAN FRANCISCO, May 7 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The International Museum of Women (I.M.O.W.), a non-partisan social change museum, confronts provocative stereotypes about women, sex and power in the global online exhibition Women, Power and Politics in the month of May. Launched on March 8, the cutting-edge multimedia exhibition runs until December 31 in four languages--Arabic, English, French and Spanish at

KEN SILVERSTEIN-North Carolina "Robo-callers" Exposed

Who’s behind the mysterious “robo-calls� that have spread misleading voter information and sown confusion and frustration among North Carolina residents over the last week? Facing South has confirmed the source of the calls, and the mastermind is Women’s Voices Women Vote, a D.C.-based nonprofit which aims to boost voting among “unmarried women voters.� What’s more, Facing South has learned that the firestorm Women’s Voices has ignited in North Carolina isn’t the group’s first brush with controversy. Women’s Voices’ questionable tactics have spawned thousands of voter complaints in at least 11 states and brought harsh condemnation from some election officials for their secrecy, misleading nature and likely violations of election law.

KEN SILVERSTEINNorth Carolina Robo-callers Exposed

Who’s behind the mysterious “robo-calls� that have spread misleading voter information and sown confusion and frustration among North Carolina residents over the last week? Facing South has confirmed the source of the calls, and the mastermind is Women’s Voices Women Vote, a D.C.-based nonprofit which aims to boost voting among “unmarried women voters.� What’s more, Facing South has learned that the firestorm Women’s Voices has ignited in North Carolina isn’t the group’s first brush with controversy. Women’s Voices’ questionable tactics have spawned thousands of voter complaints in at least 11 states and brought harsh condemnation from some election officials for their secrecy, misleading nature and likely violations of election law.

University Hospitals Launches First Women's Robotic Surgery Program

University Hospitals MacDonald Women’s Hospital has established the region’s first robotic surgery program, expanding the use of minimally invasive techniques for more women. Hysterectomies, gynecologic cancer surgery and uterine fibroid removal are among the numerous women’s health surgical procedures that specialists at UH can perform using the state-of-the-art da Vinci Surgical System.

Illinois Museum Receives Donation Of African American-Made Quilts

Ina Dews of Elgin, Illinois, recently donated three quilts made by African-American women to the Illinois State Museum. These are the only African American-made quilts in the Museum’s collections. Ms.Dews, a well-known quilt maker, came to Springfield to make this donation. She presented a quilt she fondly calls “Puffs,� which is the second quilt that she stitched when she was fifteen.

Comment: No way up for women physicists

OVER the past few decades, while all fields of science have increased the proportion of women at faculty level, physics has remained the most unequal, with women accounting for only around 10 per cent of faculty members. Is this because women are innately incapable of succeeding in the field (and/or innately prefer other careers), or because they are being discriminated against at more junior levels?

Japanese DVD Program Teaches Confidence By Staring At Women For 96 Minutes

Continuing our weirdness from Japan theme, a company called Avex has just released a DVD that teaches men to be more confident by staring at 50 different women for an hour and a half. Most Japanese men do this already, but instead of the women being in various states of undress, these women are just plain staring back at you, right in the eye, in a sort of glowering manner.

Entertainment/Arts: Women dominate fiction The finalists in the fiction and poetry categories of the Montana NZ Book Awards are all women, a reversal of 2007

The finalists of the Montana New Zealand Book Award have been named - and the fiction writers in the running are all women.

Women's Super 4's Squads Named

The National Women’s selectors have announced the four squads that will participate in the Women’s Super 4’s tournament in Potchefstroom on 26 and 27 July. The squads have been selected from the Affiliates and three other Associate members of Cricket South Africa, only Kei and Mpumalanga Unions did not provide any players.

Women's Cricket World Cup planning begins

The South African Women’s Cricket squad will commence preparations for next year’s ICC Women’s World Cup in Australia with a training camp at the High Performance Centre from Friday, 23-25 May.

Women cricketers prepare for battle

The South African women’s cricket team has lined-up international matches against Ireland and England in preparation for the International Cricket Council Women’s World Cup in Australia next year.

Women's Volleyball Spiked to North America

June 13, 2008 - Agetec, Inc. today announced its upcoming game, Women's Volleyball Championship, for the Sony PlayStation 2 computer entertainment system. Women's Volleyball, which features six venues from around the world, will be released in August 2008, and promises to be the most accurate representation of the sport ever presented on a gaming console.

Women Would Sacrifice Almost Anything But Chocolate For Blogging

A recent release of a new social media benchmark study of more than 6,000 women by BlogHer, in conjunction with Compass Partners, shows that 36.2 million women actively participate in the blogsophere every week, with 15.1 million publishing and 21.1 million reading and commenting.

Women's underwear needed in fight for democracy in Myanmar

Burmese activist Thet Thet Tun responds to a question during a new conference launching the Panties for Peace campaign in support of the women of Burma Tuesday, May 27, 2008 in Montreal. The campaign plays on the Burmese regime leaders' supersitious fear that contact with a woman's underpants will rob them of their power. In the background is Michele Asselin, president of the Quebec Women' Federation. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Paul Chiasson

DWE encourages women artists

DUBAI Women's Establishment (DWE) launched a unique "Art Exchange Programme" to enhance the creative landscape in the UAE and build stronger ties between women artists in the MENA region and the rest of the world.

President congratulates Women's cricket team

New Delhi (PTI): President Pratibha Patil on Sunday congratulated the Indian women cricket team and their skipper Mithali Raj for winning the Women's Cricket Asia Cup in Sri Lanka.

Tunisia: Six Women Artists Exhibit Their Works in Sidi Bou Said in Unique Collaborative Venture

Tunis , May 2008- From May 9 to 21, 2008 , six women artists will exhibit their works at the Sidi Bou Said Museum. All in all, a 100 works from Chantal Slim, Mouna Drissi Bouassida, Catherine Lemdani, Noudhar Mestiri Maherzi, Aicha Cherif and Raoudha Ben Mlouka Kochbati, will be on display at the Museum, a stone's throw from the famous "Café des nattes", where the majestic view on the Gulf of Tunis and its Mediterranean blue seas, have inspired many a painter.

Mutant gene causing epilepsy, intellectual disability in women discovered

Making the world's first discovery, scientists at Adelaide's Women's and Children's Hospital and the University of Adelaide, Australia, have found a mutated gene that causes epilepsy and intellectual disability in women.

Mutant gene causing epilepsy, intellectual disability in women discovered

Making the world's first discovery, scientists at Adelaide's Women's and Children's Hospital and the University of Adelaide, Australia, have found a mutated gene that causes epilepsy and intellectual disability in women.

BlogHer Talks With Carly Fiorina About Politics, Business and Women's Leadership

PALO ALTO, Calif. - BlogHer, Inc. (www.blogher.com), one of the top women’s online networks and the Web’s number-one guide to blogs by women, today released an exclusive audio interview wit

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