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Getting Women "Off the Sidelines": A Conversation with Senator Kirsten Gillibrand by Marianne Schnall

Bring in the Women Peacemakers: Are We at a Tipping Point? By Sheherazade Jafari

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The Constant, Crippling Pain Many Women Think They Have to Endure by Lauren Wolfe

Interview with Gloria Steinem: In Her Own Words by Marianne Schnall

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Behind the Stories: Public Radio's 51%: 2012 – The Beginning of the Era of Women by Susan Barnett

V-Day: Until the Violence Stops: V-Day and SAFER Campus Accountability Project Urges Students to Examine Sexual Assault Policies

Women's Media Center: Girls' State of the Union Video Contest

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Feminist Activism for the College Grrl (by Multiple authors)

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Mothers & Daughters (by Sil and Eliza Reynolds)

MoneyZen (by Manisha Thakor)

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Organizing Younger Women (by the Younger Women's Task Force)

Real Girls, Real Leaders (by Rachel Simmons and the Girls Leadership Institute)

Real Happiness and Meditation (by Sharon Salzberg)

Spiritual Activism (by The Women's Institute at Omega)

Spotlight: Speaking Out Against Global Violence (by Equality Now)

Stronger Women, Stronger Nations (by Women for Women International)

The Invisible Majority: Women & the Media (by the Women's Media Center)

The Spiritual Adventure (by Elizabeth Lesser)

United for Peace (by the Nobel Women's Inititiave)

Until the Violence Stops (by V-Day)

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