News Round Up: November 19, 2009

Women’s Leadership

Washington Post profile of Melanne Verveer

Students rally to champion women’s research at BYU (Salt Lake Tribune)

Economy

Green for All’s commentary in the Nation about green jobs for economic recovery

Top females executives still rare in California (Los Angeles Times)

Study finds differences between men and women’s levels of job satisfaction and compensation (New York Times)

Forbes list of best and worst states for women’s wages

Environment

Climate change is not gender neutral (The New Republic)

 United Nations

New UN report finds over 1 billion children are deprived of food, shelter, or clean water (AP)

Gender

Interesting commentary on a supposed feminist backlash against the men’s rights movement (Forbes)

Violence

Break the silence on domestic violence (New America Media)

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