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Invisible Women: Where Is Half The World’s Population?

By Susan Macaulay | Published: June 24, 2011

Tweet“I hadn’t thought about it,” said award-winning science writer Jessa Gamble. We sat side-by-side in the theater at Ted Global 2010 in Oxford, UK, chatting as we waited for the next in a lineup of stellar speakers (of which 29% were women), at one of the world’s premier conferences (TED basics here: TED 101 (Or [...]

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Theater Review: Anna Deavere Smith in “Let Me Down Easy”

By Womens Voices | Published: April 11, 2011

By Chris Lombardi

When Anna Deavere Smith was a visiting professor at Yale Medical School, she asked patients "What happened to you?" In the resulting play, Smith tells their stories--along with Ann Richards' and Lance Armstrong's.

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Theater Review: “Sleep No More” — Such Stuff as Dreams Are Made On

By Womens Voices | Published: April 6, 2011

TweetOriginally posted on Women’s Voices for Change, written by Alexandra MacAaron Tweet

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Geraldine Ferraro Helped Me Crack My Glass Ceiling

By Womens Voices | Published: April 4, 2011

By Diane Vacca

An example? An influence? To me, a struggling grad student in 1984, she was an inspiration — as she was to many of us.

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Vivian Maier: A Photographer Discovered

By Womens Voices | Published: March 15, 2011

By Diane Vacca for WVFC

Imagine Mary Poppins slinging a camera round her neck, her bag loaded with film, making her own pictures as she set off for a day of shooting people and street happenings. Vivian Maier, a real-life nanny, did just that for decades.