Happy NeW Year everyone! Thanks to our readers for your questions, suggestions and feedback. I will post a 2008 recap after 2008 officially ends. What was your favorite NeW memory from 2008?

December 31, 2008 0 comments CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Sex Parity v. Policy Representation in Obama’s Cabinet

I have blogged on Obama’s Cabinet here before. Here is a link to my column posted on Townhall.com about the same topic and I have pasted the column below. Sex Parity v. Policy Representation in Obama’s CabinetFeminists were devastated by Senator Barack Obama’s final Cabinet selections. Although Obama has not reversed any of his policy positions, [...]

December 29, 2008 0 comments CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

NeW Book for the NeW Year

Next week will be the last post about Wendy Shalit’s book, A Return to Modesty. It will be a summary of the last few chapters. And then, beginning with the New Year, I am thinking about discussing Laura Ingraham’s book, Power to the People. I think this will be a good book to spark discussion about [...]

December 24, 2008 0 comments CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

5 Women in Obama’s Cabinet

I posted a few weeks ago about Obama’s Cabinet selections. Of his 20 announced Cabinet-level selections, Obama has included five women. He chose Gov. Janet Napolitano as Homeland Security Secretary, Sen. Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State, Rep. Hilda Solis as Secretary of Labor, Susan Rice as United Nations Ambassador and Lisa Jackson as Environmental Protection Agency chief.The [...]

December 22, 2008 0 comments CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Against the Curing of Womanhood

Are all women nuts? Or just when they become ex-girlfriend status, then they are classified as nuts? What makes a man perceive a woman as “a nut”? And are all women potential nuts? Wendy Shalit poses these questions at the beginning of Chapter 9 in her book, A Return to Modesty. In 1899, Edward Sandford [...]

December 16, 2008 0 comments CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Final Exams and Holidays!

With finals and the holiday season upon us, we wanted to let our readers know that our blogging will slow down a bit. We will pick it up again January 1st. See you in the NeW year!

December 15, 2008 0 comments CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

The Glass Ceiling in Business?

A Carnegie Mellon University study has concluded that women executives out-earn their male counterparts. The study asked the question, “Are There Glass Ceilings for Female Executives?” The study controlled for many important variables, such as rank, experience, education and background.There is much debate among women’s organization on the glass ceiling and equal pay. For example, the National Committee on [...]

December 13, 2008 0 comments CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Male Character

Chapter 8, in Wendy Shalit’s book, A Return to Modesty, addresses the long awaited topic of “Male Character.” The whole topic of the character and honor of a gentleman has recently been one of discussion at Arizona State University. ASU’s NeW chapter will be hosting ASU’s First Annual Gentleman’s Showcase in February 2009. The idea is [...]

December 10, 2008 0 comments CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

NeW book?

Catherine has enjoyed leading the Blog Book Club this fall. She will be leading it again for the spring semester, but with a different book. If you have any book suggestions, let us know in the comments.

December 8, 2008 0 comments CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Gov. Rendell Says Gov. Napolitano Has “no life”

The Governor of Pennsylvania, Ed Rendell, has gained unwanted attention this week. He said that Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano would be a great next Homeland Security chief because she has “no family” and “no life.” He quickly retreated. CNN show host Campbell Brown decried this as sexist. Taken in context, his comment has some truth [...]

December 4, 2008 0 comments CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Can Modesty Be Natural?

Chapter 7 in Wendy Shalit’s book A Return to Modesty presents many different points of discussion. She starts out with a quote from Rousseau and his idea that modesty IS natural. The question then arises that if it is natural, can modesty be a virtue, then? Kant says this about it: “The girl is not [...]

December 3, 2008 0 comments CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Obama’s Cabinet

There has been a lot of talk about how many women Obama will chose for his Cabinet. He will have about 20 Cabinet-level positions to fill. How many women are in President Bush’s Cabinet? Currently, there are five. In his original Cabinet, he selected four women. President Clinton had five women in his first Cabinet. Obama [...]

November 28, 2008 0 comments CONTINUE READING THIS POST →