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The Woman Behind the Strip Club ‘Pole Tax’
Winking headlines about “pole taxes” followed June’s enactment of a Houston ordinance that taxes strip club patrons $5 apiece. But the intent behind the law couldn’t be more serious; proceeds will fund the processing of more than 6,000 rape kits backlogged in police refrigerators. For the legislator behind the law, Houston City Council member Ellen…
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The Rise of the Soft Maternity Leave
First things first, it is none of your business, America, how long Yahoo’s new CEO Marissa Mayer plans to take off for maternity leave. (Mayer told Fortune that her leave would be “a few weeks long, and [she’ll] work throughout it.”) So enough with the opinion polls and endless commentating. Really, lay off. Now that…
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Turning Advice Into a Novel
There is an impressive trifecta of female Jewish advice columnists based in Boston. Among them is Meredith Goldstein, the popular relationship columnist at the Boston Globe. Goldstein has an active blog on the paper’s Website called “Love Letters: Sometimes Love Stinks. Let Us Help.” Her local colleagues are Margo Howard — daughter of Ann Landers…
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Things to Do Before the Baby
As a 30-something married woman who has no kids, I get a lot of this from friends and family: “Enjoy your European vacation. Maybe it’ll be your last trip before you have a bun in the oven!” “Enjoy your summer. Who knows what next summer might bring (wink)!” “Enjoy that glass of wine now. Who…
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Born in Prison
Growing up in a Jewish community in the suburbs of Seattle, Deborah Jiang Stein always knew that she was adopted. Her brown skin was nothing like the fair skin of her parents. And while they never tried to keep her adoption a secret, her parents were tight-lipped about the circumstances surrounding it. One day she…
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Putting a Ring on It
This post is the second in “Feminist, Orthodox and Engaged,” a series by Simi Lampert on love, sex, and betrothal in the life of a Modern Orthodox woman. I parked my car in a garage for the second day in a row, and the parking attendant recognized me. “Will you be parking here every day?”…
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Yahoo’s New, and Pregnant, CEO
There is important news for working women: Marissa Mayer is leaving Google to become the new CEO of Yahoo, one of the biggest jobs in the tech industry. But that’s not all. Mayer just announced that she is seven months pregnant. This marks a radical change from the way things have been for pregnant women…
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The Anti-Abortion ‘Wailing Wall’
Naomi Zeveloff has a story in this week’s Forward about a full-size replica of the Western Wall in the works in Wichita, Kansas targeted towards women who have had abortions. An anti-abortion group, the Word of Life Church, is proposing to build this multimillion dollar “National Pro-Life Memorial and International Life Center” in the same…
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When I Fell in Love with a Muslim
My love affair with a Muslim man began at 3 a.m. on a Sunday during Halloween weekend in 2004. We were stressed out law students who sought relief by making out everywhere on campus — behind buildings, in the parking lot, his place, my place. We acted like crazy teenagers. He was my first love….
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Cluttered Closet, Cluttered Mind?
When I got back home after traveling for a month around Europe with only a 20-inch suitcase, I could no longer deny the fact that my bulging closet required some attention. Granted, it’s summer, so I could fit an exponentially greater amount of clothing into my Samsonite than if it were a season that required…
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Summer Reads for Smart Ladies
Come summer, newspapers and blogs are populated with book suggestions for reading under the sun. Unfortunately, though, the recommendations tend to skew a little light, and have little to offer the thinking gal. So we at The Sisterhood put together our own list of beach reads — a selection of titillating summer reads, new and…
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