Parity-the state or condition of being the same
in power, value, rank, equality.

The Center for Women Policy Studies is a big fan and supporter of Teen Voices December, 2008 E-News from the Center for Women Policy Studies This email was sent by Center for Women Policy Studies 1776 Massachusetts Avenue, NW Suite 450 | Washington | DC | 20036 The Center for Women Policy Studies is a big fan and supporter of Teen Voices, a print and on-line magazine that is written entirely by – and for -- teen women. Since its launch in 1988, Teen Voices has helped thousands of teen women express their thoughts and ideas on issues that are important to them and has produced confident teen women journalists! Today, Teen Voices reaches 75,000 young people. We hope that you will want to learn more about Teen Voices and support its important work. As a special offer for Center colleagues and friends, Teen Voices offers you a one year membership that enables you to provide a subscription for your favorite teen at a 25 percent discount. So, please join our sisters at Teen Voices by visiting the website at www.teenvoices.com or by contacting Tori Costa at (617) 426-5505 x 27 or tori@teenvoices.com. To learn more about the Center for Women Policy Studies and our programs, please visit our website,www.centerwomenpolicy.org or contact us at cwps@centerwomenpolicy.org. To support the Center's work, DONATE NOW. Link to Center for Women Policy Studies , link to Teen Voices posted 19 December 2008
Tweens and Twenties See Future Led by Women
Monday 23 June 2008 by: Besa Luci, Women's eNews A photo from the filming of "What's Your Point, Honey?," a documentary on the lives of the women who were winners of the 2024 Project, sponsored by CosmoGirl!, an initiative to help a woman become president by the year 2024.   For More Information: "What's Your Point, Honey?" http://www.whatsyourpointhoney.com Running Start http://www.runningstartonline.org CosmoGIRL! Project 2024 http://www.cosmogirl.com/lifeadvice/project-2024/ Girls Speak Out http://www.girlsspeakout.org/	Seven who are snapping at the heels of Hillary Clinton are featured in a new documentary narrated by girls ages 9 through 12. The tweens' focus is their need to know why a woman has yet to be a US president. When Amy Sewell and Susan Toffler set out to make a documentary about the next generation of female political leaders, they ran across seven women in their early 20s. This group became the focus of the film designed to promote young women's participation in the electoral process. The directors took the title of their movie - "What's Your Point, Honey?" - from a cartoon that has two characters: Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is pointing to a globe showing all the countries where women are heads of state and a man is asking, "What's your point, honey?" The title provided an ironic touch, but the message of the film, which debuted in New York on May 29, extends beyond the 2008 race. Read More--->>> http://www.truthout.org/article/ tweens-and-twenties-see-future-led-women
The Very Image of Affirmation In Michelle Obama, Black Women See A Familiar Grace & Strength Writ Large By DeNeen L. Brown and Richard Leiby Washington Post Staff Writers Friday, November 21, 2008; C01 washingtonpost.com Michelle Obama emerged, long and lean, from a black limousine that pulled up at the White House the other day. She stood in a bold red dress that followed her lines. She smoothed her hair and moved between her man -- the president-elect -- and the first lady. Tall in shiny red pumps, Michelle seemed to tower over them all. As she stood there, many black women on this side of the White House gate saw something else in Michelle Obama that sunny afternoon: bits and pieces of themselves. Read more about Michelle Obama's image of grace and strength posted 23 November 2008
The Koran, punk rock and lots of questions By Erika Hayasaki November 19, 2008 LATimes Reporting from Sugar Land, Texas -- The front door shuts with a thud, and Hiba Siddiqui heeds her father's footsteps, heavy from a day at work, plodding across the foyer downstairs. Time to change clothes, Hiba thinks, peeking her face over the balcony to shout "Hi, Baba!" before rushing into her bedroom, brightened by lime green and tangerine bed covers, splashed with the words "I ROCK." A magazine photo of a punk band called Anti-Flag is taped behind her door. Hiba slips out of the white T-shirt with black letters that read "HOMOPHOBIA IS GAY," which she wore to Kempner High School, where she is a junior. It's one of a collection of slogans the 17-year-old has silk-screened on T-shirts in her bedroom, unbeknownst to her parents, both Muslim immigrants from Pakistan. ... This much Hiba knows: She is a Muslim teenager living in America. But what does that mean? Read more about a young Muslim woman's life posted 22 November 2008
Sexual Assault on Campus: Culture Change 101 Sunday 09 November 2008 by: Pam Louwagie, The Minneapolis Star-Tribune ...Instead of teaching women not to walk alone at night or to carry Mace, some colleges are trying something much harder -- changing college men. Jones, fresh from sex assault prevention training, is in the vanguard of the movement. "The fact of the matter is that prevention comes down to, largely, males. Because males are primarily the ones perpetrating these crimes," said Lauren Pilnick, sexual violence education coordinator at Minnesota State University, Mankato.... Colleges are turning to programs that strive to sensitize college men to sexual misconduct, and there is evidence of some success. First-year fraternity men who saw a specific rape prevention program were nearly half as likely to commit a sexually coercive act as those who didn't, according to a 2007 study co-authored by John Foubert, a professor who developed the nonprofit One in Four, a group aimed at changing male behavior. Read more about the Culture Change on Campus posted 11 November 2008
Malia Obama and Sasha Obama: level headed girls facing a big change From The Times November 5, 2008 Sarah Vine More than any presidential candidate before him, Barack Obama has fought his campaign on a family ticket. His wife, Michelle, has of course been crucial; but the role of the couple’s two girls, Malia, 10, and Sasha, 7, cannot be underestimated. They have provided some of the best moments of the past 18 months, whether waving at their father from the stage, falling asleep during his speeches or asking, somewhat crossly, whether Daddy’s half-hour infomercial was going to interfere with their own cartoon-watching habits. As they wake up to their first day as First Family, one thing has to be top of the agenda: how are those two little girls going to have any semblance of a normal life when their father is not just the American President, but also the first black American President? Read more about Malia and Sasha and their change ahead posted 7 November 2008
Giving Girls a Voice in History 'American Girl' Author Valerie Tripp Has Made Characters From the Past Come Alive for Young Readers Wednesday, October 22, 2008 Washington Post As the author of more than 50 "American Girl" books, Valerie Tripp knows a lot about bringing characters to life. But the Silver Spring writer was not quite prepared for seeing the adventures of her character Kit played out on the big screen of movie theaters. With "Kit Kittredge: An American Girl" out on DVD next week, KidsPost's Tracy Grant caught up with Tripp to talk to her about the movie, her writing and her favorite American Girl. How did it feel to see your characters on screen? "It's a very strange experience. It's very unusual to hear words that you've heard in your head spoken and brought to life in motion, color and music on that giant screen." Kit Kittredge lives through the Great Depression. What lessons can kids today -- given the uncertain economic times -- learn from her? "Kit's story is very much my mother's story. . . . Usually I just invent the characters, and their stories are shaped by the main problem of the time. In the case of Kit, I had been listening to my mother's stories for my whole childhood. Her father lost his job. To keep their house, my mother and her mother became cooks and maids and took in boarders. My mother had to move out of her room into the attic, which Kit did. But my mother found that the people who moved into her house . . . changed and enriched her life in ways she had not foreseen. Sometimes something that appears to be a loss actually leads to a gain that you never would have had. " Read more about Valerie Tripp posted 23 October 2008
Takin’ It to the Web By: Sara Barbour | September 29, 2008 Miller-McCune ...On the surface, today's college generation seems to share little with the student protesters of the Vietnam era other than an unpopular war and a penchant for artfully ripped jeans. And the dramatic campus protests of the '60s and '70s may always be seen as a golden age of student interest and involvement in politics. Just the same, a recent University of California survey shows that 85 percent of students agree that sending troops to Iraq was a mistake — a statistic that suggests a higher percentage of students hold anti-war sentiments today than at the height of the Vietnam years. Then, anti-war opinion rarely polled at higher than 60 percent of college students. Survey data from the Higher Education Research Institute at the University of California, Los Angeles show that today's college generation is in fact fast approaching overall levels of political interest characteristic of the students of the Vietnam era. The percentage of students who call themselves "liberal" is the highest it's been since 1976, while the number who identify as "middle of the road" has dropped to lows not seen since 1970. This time around, the trend toward taking a political stance isn't just limited to the left — the percentage of students who call themselves "conservative" is at an all-time high. But the institute's freshman surveys suggest that student political apathy is a thing of the past. Read more about the political networked generation posted 16 October 2008
Children Aware Of White Male Monopoly On White House ScienceDaily (Oct. 5, 2008) — "Challenging the idea that children live in a color or gender blind world, a new study from The University of Texas at Austin reveals most elementary-school-age children are aware there has been no female, African-American, or Hispanic President of the United States. And, many of the children attribute the lack of representation to discrimination. Rebecca Bigler, professor of psychology, and a team of researchers at the university and the University of Kansas have published their findings in the October issue of the journal Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy. During 2006, more than a year before Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama entered the presidential race, the researchers interviewed 205 children between the ages of five and 10 about their knowledge, attitudes and beliefs about the similarities among U.S. presidents. In three studies, children from diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds answered questions about the absence of female, African-American and Hispanic presidents. The researchers found most children are aware that women and minorities have been excluded from the U.S. presidency. Although most of the children believed people of all races and genders should be president, they offered surprising answers as to why only white males have held the nation's highest political office..." Read the children's "surprising answers" posted 7 October 2008
Scary, Isn't She? September 14, 2008 PLAY MAGAZINE PREVIEW By ELIZABETH WEIL "On the third day of the End of the Oregon Trail basketball tournament, the 2,000-girl extravaganza that kicks off the West Coast N.C.A.A. women's summer scouting season, Jaime Nared walked into the upstairs gym at Oregon City High School, her pink-and-white athletic sandals shuffling like slippers, her face so smooth and calm she appeared to have just woken up. July is one of the few times of the year when Division 1 coaches are allowed to comb the country, watching elite youth games, filling their legal pads with notes on who has a smooth jumper or is a strong rebounder, who might turn out to be the next Candace Parker, the next big thing. N.C.A.A. rules prohibit coaches from talking directly to players. Shirts and bags with college logos announce their presence, and silence only adds to the mystique. Until this past spring, Jaime had been quietly going about her life, as unnoticed as a mocha-skinned 6-foot-1 12-year-old can be in predominantly white Portland, Ore. It was then that she found herself at the center of a controversy about sports and gender: she'd been kicked off a boys' basketball team for being too good." Read more about Jaime Posted 13 September 2008