A name is forever, once it's been indexed in Google. There's been much buzz about how to juice your Google presence by making your name more unusual, but what is a woman to do when she gets married? A quest for search engine optimization tips about how to preserve...

Despite the fact that over 20,000 working families asked that these questions be posed in the national debates (thank you, MomsRising), we've heard nothing at the debates. Today, Families and Work Institute (FWI) released full notes from conference calls it convened with policy leaders from both the Obama...

Palin is basically Rick Santorum cloned- but it's so much more fun to talk about her as meta-feminine symbol. Women, myself included, got so caught up in talking about what Sarah Palin-as-working-mother means, we helped build the GOP fairytale that Palin is just a hockey mom, not a regressive, GW...

Anyone who says women don't count in this country should talk to John McCain. Just looking at the McCain-Palin banner --Palin looking youthful but serious in her dark-rimmed glasses-- sends a clear message. I agree with many of the women bloggers at BlogHer.com who say McCain's pick of...

From Politico:

"...at a biker rally in Sturgis, South Dakota, John McCain appears to have volunteered his wife for a topless beauty pageant:
McCain felt so comfortable at the event that he even volunteered his wife for the rally's traditional beauty pageant, an infamously debauched event that's...

I've just returned from the 4th annual BlogHer conference, at which well over a thousand women from all over this country-- smart, influential, motivated and talkative but basically normal women-- got lavished with sponsors' freebies. GM let several women drive to the Conference in shiny new hybrids. I alone...

Soon the Senate will consider the Federal Employees Paid Parental Leave Act (HR 5781), which the House just passed. A new email from MomsRising tells me "It's time for the federal government to become a model employer by offering their workforce paid parental leave, and to pave the way...

And this is a good thing. As any Democrat knows, "Working Families" are a staple of any good Dem's rhetoric. The trope "helping America's working families" is so often used, it loses its punch. But the "working women" campaign the Obamas are running brings new urgency to nearly universal battles....

Imagine if you were interviewing John McCain and Barack Obama for a CEO post. You might ask:

Tell us about a high performing team that you've built. What made it high-performing?

Can you give us an example of how you have overcome resistance to bring about a needed change?

Please...

The Hillary candidacy is safely presumed dead. Long live Hillary! And her eulogy? It's mostly about her gender. Media and speeches today read something like: "Ah, the women who almost did it! How brave! How pathbreaking! She worked so hard! Thanks to her, our daughters will have it different!" That...

This week, someone told me that Wal-Mart, as part of its efforts to increase sustainability and cost-cutting among its stores and suppliers, worked with General Mills to rejig the curvature of the pasta in Hamburger Helper to reduce package waste. It's true: "Smoother noodles mean a pasta that will...

Meghan, I love McCain Blogette but I have a suggestion for you: use your megaphone to tell Daddy he's stuck in the Stone Age.

McCain Senior opposes a Senate bill mandating equal pay for women in this country. His rationale? It will pave the way for too many lawsuits....

When wise pundits in 1987 asked potential candidate Pat Schroeder whether the Democratic Party should let a woman run again for Vice-President or President since the 1984 Mondale-Ferraro ticket had performed so poorly she said, ''The ticket was already down 19 points when she was put on it,'' adding...

Among McCain's pro-choice women supporters, 50% don't know his positions and an additional 25% assume his views are in line with their own! McCain has stated (it's on his website) he thinks Roe v. Wade should be overturned.**

McCain's reputation on choice is a favorable grey area for him...

Young, upwardly mobile professionals of today, mired in credit card debt as we may be, hold several things sacred: one is good design (see the magazine Domino for the ideal type). Another is the twinned values of entrepreneurship and aspiration. Another is marriage, from a perfect wedding onward-- no...

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These early exit polls, courtesy of Open Left, could lead an Obama fan to faint:

Here you go. I have no idea how reliable these are. ...If these are real, Obama has thrashed Clinton today.
Georgia: Obama 75, Clinton 26
Connecticut:...

Massachusetts' political establishment is coming out en masse to support Barack Obama, and one of our most prominent female politicians is mad as hell. In Massachusetts, where I live, MA Senate President Therese Murray said she's disappointed that so many male elected officials, including Sens. Edward Kennedy and John Kerry,...

When you're conducting political change, you need to know who you're dealing with*. After Iowa and New Hampshire, it's clear Clinton needs women to win, but which ones, if not all? I wrote a piece on BlogHer.com about thirtysomething women and Hillary Clinton. In New Hampshire Tuesday, 57%...

I do not want to overstate Iowa's importance. But last night in Iowa, "Obama got 35 percent of women voters, compared to 30 percent for Clinton and 23 percent for Edwards. This despite the fact that Clinton focused her campaign on bringing fellow women to the polls." I have...

Want a sure-fire way to keep women away from the polls? How about calling large groups of them "single and anxious"?

I opened a blog post yesterday to the lede: "It's almost official. Single women are poised to be the "Security Mom" or "Soccer Mom" of the 2008 election....