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Angered by abortion bill, D.C. activists protest in Congressman's Arizona hometown

From washingtonexaminer.com - March 9, 2012 12:08 AM

by ALAN BLINDER, Washington Examiner


A band of D.C. activists angered by an Arizona congressman’s effort to restrict abortions in the District protested at his office near Phoenix on Thursday.


A proposal from Rep. Trent Franks, a Republican, would ban most abortions in D.C. after a woman reached the 20th week of her pregnancy. Franks and his congressional cosponsors claim the legislation would prevent an unborn child from feeling the physical pain of an abortion procedure.


But D.C. leaders have cried foul.


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Gender Ads Project

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From snip.it - May 11, 2012 1:19 PM

Scott A. Lukas, a college professor, began the Gender Ads Project, a website that analyzes women's roles in advertising in 2002. Now there's nearly 4,000 examples on the site.

 


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Mad Women

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From msmagazine.com - March 27, 2012 6:45 PM

by LYNN PERIL, Ms. Magazine Blog

 

"...By 1964, the year in which the last season of Mad Men took place, women had been involved in American advertising for generations. Mathilde C. Weil opened the M.C. Weil Agency in 1880. Helen Lansdowne was an experienced copywriter when Stanley Resor of the J. Walter Thompson agency hired her in 1907. She took over the Woodbury Facial Soap account in 1910 and conceived the campaign “A Skin You Love to Touch,” featuring illustrations of men chastely touching women that are widely considered to be the first use of sex appeal in advertising. Eight years after the campaign was launched, sales had increased 1000 percent. By that time, Helen Lansdowne had married Stanley Resor, and was in charge of JWT’s all-female Women’s Editorial Department. Ms. Resor and her team were wildly successful: In 1918, they were responsible for over half of JWT’s billings..." 


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