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Under Obama, Little Progress on High-Level Jobs for Women

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Under Obama, Little Progress on High-Level Jobs for Women

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Behind the roiling conversation over whether President Obama might make Janet L. Yellen the first female leader of the Federal Reserve is an uncomfortable reality for the White House: the administration has named no more women to high-level executive branch posts than the Clinton administration did almost two decades ago.

Behind the roiling conversation over whether President Obama might make Janet L. Yellen the first female leader of the Federal Reserve is an uncomfortable reality for the White House: the administration has named no more women to high-level executive branch posts than the Clinton administration did almost two decades ago.

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Algerian feminist Marieme Lucas critiques Obama's Cairo Speech

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Algerian feminist Marieme Lucas critiques Obama's Cairo Speech

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Reinforcing presumed religious identities:
Where are women and secularists of Muslim countries in Obama’s speech in Cairo?

by Marieme Helie Lucas
Secularism is a Women's Issue (SIAWI)

It is beyond doubt that many people around the world, of various political opinions and creeds, will feel relieved after the discourse the President of the USA delivered in Cairo today. It is apparently a new voice, a voice of peace, quite far from Bush’s clash of civilisations. But is it so?

Reinforcing presumed religious identities:
Where are women and secularists of Muslim countries in Obama’s speech in Cairo?

by Marieme Helie Lucas
Secularism is a Women's Issue (SIAWI)

It is beyond doubt that many people around the world, of various political opinions and creeds, will feel relieved after the discourse the President of the USA delivered in Cairo today. It is apparently a new voice, a voice of peace, quite far from Bush’s clash of civilisations. But is it so?

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