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 Can Michelle Defy Stereotypes? 

Why hasn't the 'Claire Huxtable' generation been accepted into the mainstream?

Washington Post Washington Post Jul 20, 08 10:16 AM CDT
(Newser) - It's no wonder Michelle Obama is being criticized from all sides: She's an outspoken, successful black woman, writes Sophia A. Nelson in the Washington Post . "This society can't even see a woman like Michelle Obama. All it sees is a black woman and attaches stereotypes," a prominent female African-American journalist tells Nelson. Society sees categories: the hip-hop vixen, the capable Aunt Jemima, and the "angry black woman." More »

More about:  Michelle Obama • African-Americans • racial inequality • black women • stereotypes • glass ceiling

OPINION

 Why White Men Are
 Warming Up to Hillary 

Is Clinton drawing more male voters because she's jumped the gender divide?

New York Times New York Times May 9, 08 10:47 AM CDT
(Newser) - When a woman makes it to the White House, it will be thanks largely to Hillary Clinton's demonstration of late that she could move beyond annoying stereotypes of the strong female, writes Susan Faludi in the New York Times. Instead of being a goody-goody rules-pusher—"the purse-lipped killjoy who passes strait-laced judgment on feral boy fun"—Clinton has joined in the brawl, showing she can "hit hard, not complain, bounce back and endeavor to prevail in the end." More »

More about:  Hillary Clinton • fight • gender politics • gender roles • male voters • glass ceiling

OPINION

Doesn't Matter If Dems Fight: McCain Has Already Peaked

Lefty and righty both see a ceiling for Republican hopeful

Atlantic Monthly Atlantic Monthly Apr 23, 08 12:36 PM CDT
(Newser) - The bruising Obama-Clinton battle is giving Republicans hope and Dems heartburn, but those feelings are misplaced, bloggers right and left agree: John McCain isn’t gaining on either potential fall opponents—and might indeed have hit his ceiling. At a moment that “ought to be peak time” for McCain, Ross Douthat writes in the Atlantic , he’s stuck at the same 45% nationally he had in December. More »

More about:  Barack Obama • John McCain • Hillary Clinton • Arizona • glass ceiling

Norway
Shatters Its
Glass Ceiling

Nation requires 40%
of big companies' boards to be female

Guardian (UK) Guardian (UK) Mar 6, 08 5:44 PM CST
(Newser) - A state-mandated shattering of Norway's glass ceiling is drastically changing gender balance in boardrooms there—and not without some resistance, the Guardian reports. A law that 40% of non-executive board directorships at larger firms must go to women went into effect Feb. 22—and though a dozen Norwegian companies failed to fill the quota, an astounding 451 out of 463 did. More »

More about:  business • Norway • CEOs • gender discrimination • gender gap • board of directors • glass ceiling • gender in business • sex ratio

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