Carolyn Kennedy: the Feminist Choice?

Responses from Feminist Groups to Kennedy
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/06/nyregion/06demwomen.html?bl&ex=1228712400&en=87713734acb711c3&ei=5087%0A

A Criticism of Kennedy's Bid:
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/editorial/outlook/6172370.html

Obama: Feminist in Chief Part II

A Site from UVA FLF Member Gabe!

The economic stimulus is a great place to start addressing gender inequality. In a recent Boston Globe op-ed, "The Macho Stimulus Plan," economist Randy Albelda points out that the jobs Obama talks about--building roads, bridges and schools, developing eco-friendly technologies--are overwhelmingly held by men. It would be nice if suddenly half of construction workers were female, but given that they're now 2.7 percent, realistically that is not going to happen. Even doubling or tripling the small number of women in the relevant job categories would be a stretch. Albelda proposes an additional stimulus plan, for the female side of the economy: "Caring for those who cannot care for themselves, healthcare, and primary education are the very foundation of a civil society. Investing in these outcomes is as vital to our long-term economic health as airports, highways, wind turbines, and energy-retrofitted buildings." Not only do these jobs disproportionately employ women, she points out, but "investments in direct care, education, and healthcare would also go a long way in alleviating poverty."

"We need to put pressure on him now, about concrete policies," historian Linda Gordon, co-founder of Feminists for Obama, told me. "You can be sure that's what the right is doing."

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20081222/pollitt

Top Obama Aide in Sexist Photo

Sexist Photo is no Laughing Matter
http://www.vanityfair.com/online/politics/2008/12/favreaus-sexist-photo-is-no-laughing-matter.html

Sketches of Michelle Obama?

An interesting post from Slate.com's XX Factor on the inability of fashion designers to draw Michelle Obama. Also within the post are links to the drawings themselves.

http://slate.com/blogs/blogs/xxfactor/archive/2008/12/03/how-hard-is-it-to-draw-michelle-obama.aspx

Feminist in Chief

Chicago Tribune Article on President-elect Obama and Feminism
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-oped1208pollittdec08,0,4881068.story

Women Trapped by Army's Protection of Abusive Soldiers

Despite Army Assurances, Violence at Home
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/23/us/23abuse.html?_r=1&hp

Feminism's Third Wave? Fourth Wave?

Michelle, Our Belle
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/pam-bristow/michelle-our-belle_b_145300.html

"At first glance, it may seem that the feminist movement took a major blow with Clinton's primary loss, but a deeper look may spotlight a different female voice emerging, one that is personified by our incoming first lady. A Cum Laude graduate of Princeton University and holder of a Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School, Michelle Obama is hardly a woman who struggles with proving herself in a "man's world." Yet she has demonstrated over and over that by harnessing our feminine strength as the nurturing hubs of our families and communities, we wield a genuine power that has the simultaneous ability to inspire and affect (as her husband has admitted many times) even the decisions of our President."