In many women’s sports it is almost impossible to make a living through athletic competition alone. In less-mainstream sports like kayaking or sky diving, compensation comes almost exclusively from sponsorships. That requires a track record for getting media coverage, and the fastest route is to expose a little flesh. Better yet, a lot.

Men don’t have to do that. Superstar male athletes are typically celebrated for their skills while female competitors draw excessive attention for their looks, said Mary Jo Kane, executive director of the Tucker Center for Research on Girls and Women in Sport at theUniversity of Minnesota.

Using sex to market female athletics may excite young men but turns off most serious fans, she said.

“Sex sells sex,” Ms. Kane said. “It doesn’t sell women’s sports.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/31/fashion/31mancino.html?pagewanted=2

Theirs has been a friendship that expresses itself most easily through the problems they solve.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/27/magazine/mag-27science-t.html?pagewanted=2&hpw

breaking down the stereotypical fashion ideal

ALL WALKS BEYOND THE CATWALK initiative

beauty comes from our idiosyncrasies.

- rankin

When it comes to choices around fashion, we've never had more yet our choices around body shape appear increasingly limited.

Why is it that 99% of all the attractive and intelligent women I know do not feel good about their bodies?

Let's change this.

-debra bourne

for an industry predicated on embracing a diverse aesthetic when it comes to clothes,

it is often myopic when it comes to the bodies that wear those clothes.

all walks (http://allwalks.org/) is an antidote, promising to be a showcase for

genuinely progressive, female-friendly fashion.

all walks is important because it demonstrates how the fashion world is taking the appreciation of all women seriously.

- designer mark fast

Bringing together models of all colours, shapes, sizes and ages in a dazzling array looks gorgeous.

- sarah brown

to me, the only thing that we should have in common is our differences.

-erin o'connor

the legacy of first american female vice presidential candidate

She remained a durable American heroine,
a strong, respected role model for millions of women (and some men).

She lived a moment that changed the country’s image of itself,
and that moment turned her into a strong, if complicated, symbol of change in American politics.

After accepting the nomination to be Vice President of the United States

There was a woman with a walker and she beckoned to me and whispered in my ear:

"I never thought I would live to see this day."

Her acceptance speech launched eight minutes of cheers, foot-stamping and tears.

Ferraro was fun to be with; she wasn’t a scold or a downer, which unfortunately was how many men in charge in those days thought of other women leaders.

"She manages to be threatening on issues without being threatening personally"

Her stubbornness must have resonated in particular with women, many of whom, to this day, know how it feels to hide their intelligence or mute their opinions or avoid confrontation rather than appear challenging to male power. Ms. Ferraro could effectively charm powerful men, but she did not back down on substance.

The nomination of Ms. Ferraro was proof that as hidebound, stubborn and rigid as our country can be, it also has the capacity periodically to remake itself. For millions of women, the Ferraro nomination was validation, as meaningful to them as President Obama’s election was to African-Americans and John F. Kennedy’s election was to Roman Catholics. Because of her nomination, Geraldine Ferraro became a transforming figure in the country’s history.

Ferraro said she hoped to live long enough "to attend the inauguration of the first woman president of the United States."

women and families today

Working Mothers are Broadly Accepted...

Seventy-four percent of men and 84% of women say women with children are just as committed to their jobs as women without children. Seventy-two percent of black women strongly agree vs. 57% of Latino women and 55% of white women.

Fifty-six percent of men and 63% of women strongly disagree with the idea that mothers cannot be as productive at work as fathers. This isn't to say there are no trade-offs: 25% of men and 26% of women say that women who work outside the home have less time and attention for their marriage or relationship. And men and women differ over the cost: 26% of men strongly agree that it is harder for a mother who works outside the home to establish a warm and secure relationship with her children than it is for a mother who does not work outside the home; 19% of women strongly agree.

... And Yet, People Hold On to Traditional Visions for Family Life
In the 1970s, a majority of children grew up with a stay-at-home parent; now that figure is less than a third. A large majority — 70% of men, 61% of women — believe this has had a negative effect on society. Fifty-seven percent of men and 51% of women agree that it is better for a family if the father works outside the home and the mother takes care of the children. Asked to rank what they value most for their own daughters, 63% of men and 56% of women put a happy marriage with children first; 17% of men and 23% of women said an interesting career; and 15% of men and 20% of women said financial success.

http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1930277_1930124_1930131,00.html
http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1930277_1930124_1930133,00.html

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