October 2010
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Women, Schwomen
For all the ballyhoo about this being “the year of the woman,” the number of women in Congress looks certain to decline for the first time since 1978. What does it mean? Our colleague Eleanor Clift reports.
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“It used to be that you couldn’t attack a female candidate without helping her …...”
– Newsweek’s Eleanor Clift, on Hillary Clinton, Meg Whitman and the “whore” slur
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“French women are exhausted. We have the right to do what men do — as long as we...”
– The editor-in-chief of Elle France, on a new Pew Research Center survey, which found that three in four French people believe men have a better life than women—by far the highest share in any country polled. As the New York Times puts it: “The birthplace of Simone de Beauvoir may look...