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		<title>Women Boycott House Contraception Hearing</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 01:18:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Claire</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; &#160; Women boycotted the House Contraception Hearing today in DC., to fight against the fact that House Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) prevented women from testifying in a hearing examining Obama&#8217;s new regulation requiring employers and insurers to pay for employee contraception coverage. Roy Blunt and other Republicans have introduced legislation that would [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=loosegarments.com&amp;blog=18651822&amp;post=2225&amp;subd=loosegarments&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Petition: Women&#8217;s Right to Contraceptive Access</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2012 01:10:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Claire</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Women's Health Issues]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Republican senator Roy Blunt has introduced an amendment that would allow any employer to deny birth control coverage for any reason. It is 2012, and birth control pills are a normal part of modern life. Yet, if this bill passes, women&#8217;s freedom to access health-care will be severely limited! Your boss shouldn&#8217;t decide what kind of health [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=loosegarments.com&amp;blog=18651822&amp;post=2217&amp;subd=loosegarments&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Will You Be Our Valentine?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2012 04:46:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Claire</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We here at Loose Garments would like to wish everyone a wonderful and happy Valentine&#8217;s Day! Regardless of whether you are spending the day alone, with friends, or a significant other &#8211; we hope that you treat yourself to a whole lot of love! Will you be our Valentine? Filed under: Thoughts Tagged: activism, feminist [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=loosegarments.com&amp;blog=18651822&amp;post=2210&amp;subd=loosegarments&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Women&#8217;s Contributions to Mathematics</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Feb 2012 04:37:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Claire</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[differential and integral calculus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hypatia of alexandria]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hypatia of Alexandria Science, engineering and mathematics have always been male dominated fields. Regardless of the many obstacles that women face to enter such fields, mathematical theory owes much to female mathematicians throughout time! Starting with Hypatia in the fifth century AD. Hypatia was one of the first female mathematicians in history, who excelled in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=loosegarments.com&amp;blog=18651822&amp;post=2206&amp;subd=loosegarments&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Whitney Houston Has Died ~ Circumstances Unclear</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Feb 2012 01:18:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Claire</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whitney Houston&#8217;s publicist just announced that Whitney Houston has died, though the circumstances, including Whitney&#8217;s location and cause of death, remain unknown. Read more at USA Today Whitney Houston won several Grammy&#8217;s, which included album and record of the year. Though Whitney was often overtaken by drug addiction, many women looked up to her. She [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=loosegarments.com&amp;blog=18651822&amp;post=2198&amp;subd=loosegarments&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>5 Questions with Awesome Woman: Founder of Fashion Label Str(angela)nd</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 20:20:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Claire</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[5 Questions with Awesome Women! &#160; &#160; Angela Gbemisola is a feminist activist, a fashion and graphic designer, and writer. She lives and works in London, UK, and is the founder of a fashion brand called Str(angela)nd. Her desire to be involved in fashion came from a quest for meaning, for answers. Like many women of her generation (she was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=loosegarments.com&amp;blog=18651822&amp;post=2180&amp;subd=loosegarments&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Barefoot &amp; Pregnant: The Modern Oppression of Women</title>
		<link>http://loosegarments.com/2012/02/09/barefoot-pregnant-the-modern-oppression-of-women/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 01:53:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Claire</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The last few days the news has been flooded with stories about women&#8217;s reproductive issues including abortion and contraception. The Republicans would like to see American women knocked up. When women are constantly pregnant, especially poor women, they will also be less likely to graduate high school and attain a college or graduate degree. When [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=loosegarments.com&amp;blog=18651822&amp;post=2154&amp;subd=loosegarments&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Women Make Up 7.5% of &#8216;Fortune 500&#8242; Top Earners</title>
		<link>http://loosegarments.com/2012/02/07/women-make-up-7-5-of-top-fortune-500-earners/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 04:50:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Claire</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[power]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Catalyst Census found that, in 2011, only a measly 7.5% of top earners at Fortune 500 companies were women. In addition, the study found that last year women held only 14.1% of Executive Officer positions at the nation&#8217;s top corporations, and  27.4% of Fortune 500 companies didn&#8217;t even bother hiring a woman for an [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=loosegarments.com&amp;blog=18651822&amp;post=2140&amp;subd=loosegarments&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Will You Still Be &#8220;Pro-Life&#8221; After She&#8217;s Born?</title>
		<link>http://loosegarments.com/2012/02/04/will-you-still-be-pro-life-after-shes-born/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:13:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Claire</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Created by Jay Branscomb. Filed under: Thoughts Tagged: branscomb<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=loosegarments.com&amp;blog=18651822&amp;post=2134&amp;subd=loosegarments&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Images Speak: Strength in Time of Weakness</title>
		<link>http://loosegarments.com/2012/01/31/images-speak-strength-in-time-of-weakness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 03:43:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Claire</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Good friends provide strength during difficult times, and this homage to a true friend is stunning! The artist, Catherine Tourangeau describes the portrait as &#8221;a woman who brought light to a very dark time, and lent me her strength when I was weak.&#8221; The expressive yet peaceful &#8221;Strength” is painted with acrylics on canvas. Check out the submitted pieces of art by visiting [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=loosegarments.com&amp;blog=18651822&amp;post=2116&amp;subd=loosegarments&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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