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Natalie Portman's Motherhood Shout-Out Gets Raves From This Feminist
By Joanne Bamberger - Politics DailyNatalie Portman has been getting flack for her Academy Awards acceptance speech for her role in "Black Swan." Not because of anything she said about the uber-psych-thriller role that won her the award or because of any Oscar night faux pas like forgetting to acknowledge her fellow Best Actress nominees. She's coming under fire for a speech that acknowledged her nascent motherhood as "the most important role" of her life, referring to her ever-growing pregnancy, which I must say was beautifully draped in a luscious plum-colored Rodarte gown that I wouldn't mind owning. Some women are ...
Peanuts During Pregnancy: Nibble Now Could Mean Childhood Allergy Later
By Katie Drummond - AOL News(Nov. 3) -- Could you go nine months without peanut butter? That's the foreboding potential of an extensive new study, which concludes that that pregnant women who consume peanuts and peanut-based products put their kids at increased risk of peanut allergies, which means a lifetime without peanuts for their precious offspring -- not to mention the potential for particularly hazardous allergic reactions. Surge Desk breaks down the findings: What did the study pinpoint about peanuts? Reporting in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, researchers describe a study of 503 American ...
Opinion: There's More to the Pay Gap Story
By Laura Vanderkam - AOL News(Sept. 1) -- The "pay gap" between men and women is much in the news these days. Ninety years after women gained the right to vote, a typical story reports, we still earn 77 cents on the dollar. But what if there's more to the story? Some new data show that the question of why people earn more or less is quite nuanced. In some cases there is pretty blatant gender discrimination. In others, it involves questions of how we spend our 168 hours, with women doing pretty well when they want to. So let's look at the whole situation. I read a short story in the Wall Street Journal highlighting ...
Moms Reunite With American Hikers in Iran
By Lauren Frayer - AOL News(May 20) – One of the American hikers who's been jailed in Iran for nearly a year on spying allegations said today that loneliness is the toughest part of captivity. "It's really difficult being alone," said Sarah Shourd, 31, describing how she's been in solitary confinement 23 hours a day while her boyfriend Shane Bauer and another friend, Josh Fattal, both 27, share a prison cell. "They are together but I'm alone," she told a gaggle of reporters at a Tehran hotel where the three had an emotional reunion today with their mothers, who've traveled to Iran to plead for their freedom. ...
Mother's Day? No, Try Goddess Day
By Donna Trussell - Politics DailyThat's what my husband has nicknamed Mother's Day. He takes me out to eat and he calls me a goddess, since we have no children. Before you start retching, let me add that it's a miracle we made it to 33 years. Marriage is hard, as my colleague Delia Lloyd eloquently explained in her post, More Wives Should Dump Their Husbands. Delia was moved to write by the sad tale of Silda Spitzer, who literally stood by her man when her husband Eliot Spitzer resigned his post as New York governor. ...
Good Parent or Smother Mother? It's a Fine Line
By Ria Misra - Politics DailySandra Tsing Loh's article on motherhood in this month's Atlantic has kicked off quite a discussion among my colleagues, Melinda, Lynn, Delia and Lizzie, about what makes a good parent. But, if we could set aside questions of parental quality for just a moment, I want to talk about something a little easier to measure: quantity -- namely, too much parenting. Loh references Ayelet Waldman's book on motherhood, "Bad Mother," early on, mostly to complain that Waldman, as a mother, is too good, with far too model a family to deserve the moniker. But it was a quote from the book written by the ...
Experts Doubt Reported Hike in Female Sexual Abuse
By Willem Marx - AOL News(Nov. 16) -- Are there more "female sex beasts preying on children," as the British tabloid Daily Star put it recently? The question arose earlier this month after ChildLine, the telephone counseling service of a U.K. child welfare organization, reported that the number of British children calling a helpline to report sexual abuse perpetrated by women has more than doubled over the past five years. And in cases where the perpetrator's gender was specified, mothers were the alleged abusers in almost a third of the cases reported by boys in their early teens. The report followed a raft of ...
Sarah Palin and the Political Moms
By Ria Misra - Politics DailyLike many of you, I read Vanity Fair's profile on Sarah Palin Tuesday -- and Todd Purdum's profile is fascinating if for no other reason than its look at the slash-and-burn defense tactics of the Alaskan governor's shrinking inner circle. The line that gave me pause, though, was the same one that caught Jill and Bonnie: "She is by far the best-looking woman ever to rise to such heights in national politics, the first indisputably fertile female to dare to dance with the big dogs." The first indisputably fertile female. My first thought was thank God that I missed the disputes on the fertility ...
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