Successful, Equitable Workplaces
Pregnancy discrimination remains wide spread [National Partnership]
Crossing gender lines: Why should women mentor men? [Glass Hammer]
Media’s gender gap: where are the girls? [Time]
The wage gap between moms and other working women [NPR]
How can it be that women, despite accounting for half the workforce, hold only 17% of the top corporate jobs? [North Jersey.com]
Bat Girl in an interesting public service announcement from 1966, promoting equal pay for women [Secret-oranges]
Why a company’s next board member should be a woman [Tech Crunch]
Colbert takes family leave; many workers cannot [Forbes]
Saluting Misbehavin’ Women
69th Anniversary of women in the Marine Corp is celebrated [Camp Lejune Globe]
51 year old female Sgt. completes basis training [Examiner]
The Girl Scouts celebrate a century of service and camping [The Daily Herald]
Looking at women who use their gifts to help others during Black History Month [Morris Town Green]
A conversation with Vernice Armour, the first African American woman Marine Corp pilot [Chicago Tribune]
Indiana woman uses painting business to mentor women [NWI Times]
Women key part of Cherry Point Marine Corps history [HaveNews]
Politics
Focus on social issues could shape political battle for women [New York Times]
Veteran Tammy Duckworth runs for office and has some words for Rick Santorum [Prospect]
Gail Collins and David Brooks on the decision that this election should be about sex [New York Times]
Republican female congressional hopeful and first female pilot to fly in combat disagrees with Santorum’s on women in the military [The Hill]
Will the Congressional glass ceiling shatter in Iowa and North Dakota this fall? [UMN ED]
Health
42% of women don’t experience pain before a heart attack [New York Times]
Why health activism is central to women’s rights [Women's eNews]
STEM
Brains are beautiful, geek is chic and smart is sexy–changing the way women are perceived in the world of science, technology, engineering and math [Bostinno]
Shrinking numbers, growing need for women in technology jobs [Des Moines Register]
American’s next top engineers: She needs your role models [HBR]
More programs needed that target minorities and women for STEM [Washington Post]
Gen Y
For women under 30 most births occur outside of marriage [New York Times]
Young mothers explain marriages fading allure [New York Times]
Violence Against Women
Women’s eNews takes on Liz Trotta and her rape in the military comments [Women's eNews]
Veterans/Military
Veterans recognized at WVA state house. Women say they face different challenges from male counter parts [Metro News]
Congressional budget cuts could slash job opportunities for women vets and victims of violence [Huffington Post]
Women and the Wounds of War on DOD’s Recon channel [DOD Live]
Women veterans getting lost in homeless count [Examiner]
Duel military couple balance family and Army [WWNYTV]
Justice Department backs equal benefits for military gay couples [New York Times]
Sen Patty Murray on future veteran workforce [Washington Post]
Others News of Note
Two more articles about the right’s attack on the Girl Scouts [Forbes] [Washington Post]
Top brands divided along gender lines survey finds; only agree on Southwest, Google and Dove [Business News Daily]
Better outlook for women baby boomers retirement: but there are still problems [Seattle PI]
