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By Hanah Cho and Jill Rosen | September 4, 2008
Even when Claudia Morrell's three daughters were small, she logged 60-hour workweeks, nights and weekends included, as a technology executive. Not feeling "perpetually guilty" was her biggest challenge. But never once did she consider herself an unfit mother. "My kids always knew I loved them, what I was doing was important and would help their futures and that mothers need to have lives, too," says Morrell, who lives in Perry Hall. "My kids turned out OK, and I think I'm a role model for them."
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By Mary Gail Hare | February 24, 2008
As chairwoman of the Harford County Commission for Women, Lisa Tittle is brimming with ideas on how to improve the lives of women. Why not start a halfway house with training programs for women leaving prison, she asked. How about opening a school for young mothers, who want to return to class but cannot overcome hurdles like child care and transportation? Maybe the commission should lend its support to the Homecoming Project, an association that helps women recovering from substance abuse.
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October 17, 2007
The Howard County Commission for Women and Howard Community College will co-sponsor a workshop, "Getting the Pay You Deserve: Women Negotiating Better Salaries," on Oct. 27 at the college. Evelyn Murphy, founder and president of the Wage Project and author of Getting Even: Why Women Don't Get Paid Like Men and What To Do About It, will speak. Breakfast will be served from 9 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. Two workshops - "Start Smart" for women in college and "Get What You're Worth, Get What You Want" for women in or returning to the workplace - will be held from 10:45 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Registration is required.
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By SUSAN REIMER | February 8, 2005
YOU'D THINK, with all the pink ribbons flying, that breast cancer was the No. 1 killer of women. Certainly it is the disease women are most aware of, and most afraid of, I think. Women are hugely informed about self-examination, the pros and cons of annual mammograms and the concerns about hormone therapy. But the one thing most women do not know about breast cancer is this: They are more likely to die of a heart disease. "Heart disease is the No. 1 killer of women," said Dr. Robert Eckel, president-elect of the American Heart Association last week.
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By Kay Harvey | May 4, 2003
Amajority of women age 50-plus say getting older isn't as bad as they expected, a survey shows. For the most part, the study by the National Center on Women and Aging at Brandeis University challenges a stereotype that aging is a drag. Findings of the poll of 1,001 women last summer include: * Age isn't necessarily the issue. Disability can hit at any age, and serious health conditions can affect women's ability to pay for health insurance and health care, as well as saving for the future.
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By J. Wynn Rousuck | July 18, 2002
Last weekend, the Baltimore Playwrights Festival premiered plays by two of its veteran writers. The Whispers of Saints is Mark Scharf's 10th festival production, Amanda's Line is Kathleen Barber's eighth. Neither play is its author's best work. Both, however, display flashes of talent and are well cast. And, coincidentally, both concern relationships between women. Scharf focuses on the troubled bond between a mother and her grown daughter. Each of these women is dealing with a crisis stemming from a relationship with a man. Reeling from the unexpected news that her husband wants a divorce, Laura (the daughter)
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By Marc Schogol | April 14, 2002
BRYN MAWR, Pa. - You'd think that if a president once taught at your college, you'd glorify his name. But at Bryn Mawr College, there's now no sign that Woodrow Wilson was ever there. The only sign was a plaque the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission erected on the fringe of the campus in 1958. When that sign was taken down in the fall, almost nobody at the prestigious women's college noticed. At Princeton University, where Wilson later taught and became college president before being elected governor of New Jersey and then president of the United States, he is an icon.
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By Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan | March 27, 2001
When women decided to go to work en masse in the 1970s and had nothing to wear, Ellen Tracy came to the rescue. Ellen Tracy is no super-feminist, symbol of women's rights - or even a real person. It's the label of a fashion house that was savvy enough to realize that being a career woman didn't necessarily have to mean dressing like a man. To many, Tracy became their best friend - albeit a pricey one. And if they looked behind the labels of those well-cut jackets and skirts, they'd find a fellow working woman named Linda Allard.
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By Booth Moore | December 31, 1998
Readers didn't know what to expect when legendary editor and original Cosmo girl Helen Gurley Brown passed the reins to a more modern-thinking Bonnie Fuller in February 1997.Now the magazine's fans find themselves in a similar position, with Fuller moving on to work her magic at Glamour, and former Redbook editor Kate White stepping into the distinguished position at Cosmopolitan.White has been editor in chief of Child, McCall's and Working Women. She has also written two books: "Nine Women Who Get Everything They Want" and "Why Good Girls Don't Get Ahead but Gutsy Girls Do."
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By Ellen Goodman | September 12, 1997
BOSTON -- Back in the early 1980s, when Karen Nussbaum was the head of 9 to 5, the organization of clerical workers conducted a national survey on working women and stress. It identified the worst ''coping mechanism'' that women used, the one sure to lead to the highest stress and the worst results.No, it wasn't alcohol, it wasn't drugs. It was, she says, ''apologizing when you weren't wrong.''Yet that was the posture of many working women in the years after they began flooding the workplace: apologetic.