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NFL Establishes ‘Rooney Rule’ for Women

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell wants to burnish the image of his league by embracing feminism; promising an expansion of the 2003 “Rooney Rule” that required teams to consider minorities in their executive hiring to now include women.

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Mother Pushes Invading Terrorist Out of House

Jerusalem Online reports: The Palestinian terrorist who stabbed 3 people in Ra’anana successfully entered a private house nearby, while being chased by the police. Thanks to the mother’s courage, a tragedy was prevented. A terrorist entered a house on Ramhal

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7 Things Women in Saudi Arabia Still Can’t Do

Zee News India reports: For the first time in history, women in Saudi Arabia on Saturday participated alongside men in the municipal election – a big step towards gender equality in a severely restricted Saudi society. Though a local level election, the polls are

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56,295,000 American Women Not in Labor Force

The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that in November 56,295,000 women (ages 16 and older) were neither employed nor had looked for a job in four weeks. The number represented a decline of 245,000 from October’s level and a decline of 352,000 from September’s record level of 56,647,000 women not in the workforce.

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Ivanka Trump: Criticism of Her Father ‘Orchestrated’ by the ‘Media’

“Look, my father is very blunt. He’s very direct. He is not gender specific in his criticism of people, and people that he doesn’t particularly like or people that he does like but thinks they’re wrong on a particular issue,” Ivanka Trump tells CNN’s Poppy Harlow. “So I don’t think that he’s gender-targeted at all. Like I said, I wouldn’t be the person I am today, I wouldn’t be a high-level executive within his organization if he felt that way.”

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Record 56,647,000 Women Not in Labor Force

More than 56 million women were not of the U.S. labor force last month, according to new government data released Friday. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that 56,647,000 women, ages 16 and older during the month of September were neither employed nor had made specific efforts to find work in the past four weeks.

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Carly Fiorina Won’t Make ‘Personal Comments’ About Hillary Clinton

GOP candidate Carly Fiorina tells People magazine that she won’t slam Hillary Clinton’s character, but would criticize her record as Secretary of State. “So I never make a personal comment about Hillary Clinton – my criticism of her is fact-based, based on her actions and track record. And that is fair game,” Fiorina says.

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Carly Fiorina: ‘Women Change the World’

On Friday evening, former Hewlett-Packard CEO and GOP presidential candidate Carly Fiorina delivered a speech to the members of Peace Through Business — an international training and leadership program for women — at the George W. Bush Library in Dallas, Texas.

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Spanish Woman Arrested for Running ISIS ‘Sex Slave’ Recruiting Operation

Spanish police announced the arrest of a woman identified only as “Silvia C.” on Tuesday, believed to have been in contact with Islamic State jihadists in Syria and responsible for recruiting women and girls as “sex slaves” for jihadis in the Middle East. The Spanish Ministry of the Interior released few details, stating the investigation that led to her arrest remains ongoing.

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Austin Convenes Session to Help Staff Understand Women

Now that the Austin City Council is comprised of seven women and four men, the first time in its history that the majority of members are women, the city manager’s office decided that staff interacting with the council needed some education as to how women think and act, and convened a two-hour training session on March 27 with speakers from Florida delineating how women are different from men.

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Record 56,167,000 Women Out Of Labor Force

A record number of women were not in the labor force in April, according to numbers released Friday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Last month, the number of women not in the workforce increased from the previous record of 56,131,000, registered in March, to a new record of 56,167,000.

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Reality Check for Women in Combat

In 2013, the Obama Administration announced the President’s intent to repeal regulations exempting military women from direct ground combat units such as the infantry. The Marine Corps dutifully began a multi-phased research program to determine whether women could meet male physical standards. Two and a half years later, reality is setting in.

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