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TwitterStyle.com reports that Nancy Pelosi attended a $15,000 a head fundrasier, Thursday evening in NYC, hosted by Diane von Furstenberg. Pelosi broke away from her Washington DC focus of passing climate bill, which passed Friday in the House of Representatives 219-212.
Pelosi cancelled a joint news conference with herself and Al Gore, deciding wisely not to create any opportunity for upsetting the very fragile lobbying for votes apple cart at the 11th hour. Gore is known for being impassioned and effective on the environment, but also confrontational.
“We passed transformational legislation which takes us into the future,” Pelosi said at a press conference following the vote, after she and other leaders took congratulatory phone calls from Obama, former Vice President Al Gore and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.
While in NYC, Pelosi didn’t have time to visit the most inspiring of our new environmental initiative, the reclaimed High Line, visible from Diane von Furstenberg’s studio. Von Furstenberg and husband Barry Diller are key players in the High Line project.
See NYC’s High Line Embraces Architect Mickey Muennig’s Green-Roof Philosophy and New York’s ‘High Line’ Is Cultural Creative Activism in High Gear.
Tracy Anderson Opens Studio in Tribeca, Ready to Transform more Bodies, Besides Madonna and Paltrowvia Telegraph UKMeet Tracy Anderson, creator of Gyneth Paltrow’s butt and Mondona’s ‘everything physical’. Yes, the woman behind those sinewy muscles has just opened a gym in Tribeca, donating all proceeds to Madonna’s charity Raising Malawi.
Anderson’s method is also downloadable from her website Tracy Anderson Method.
As always the UK press does an in-depth article on the Tracy Anderson method, compared to the American press. I give you one from each:
Tracy Anderson: guru by appoiontment to her Madge, Madonna: Telegraph UK
Meet the fitness trainer who transformed Gyneth Paltrow: USA Today
Clairol Perfect 10 Research May Confirm Dove’s: British (and American) Women Believe They Reach ‘Ideal’ Beauty Decades Ahead of Other Countries
Anne here, hunting for the press release behind the Clairol Perfect 10 research about women and happiness. The British press is reporting the survey of 4,000 women without stipulating the nationality of women researched. No word in the American press yet.
Dove has verified in extensive research of women around the world that American and British women believe that a woman’s age of “ideal” beauty is much younger than women in other countries.
Dove (Campaign for Ideal Beauty) asked the question ‘what is the age of ideal beauty’? By country responses to the answer ‘twenties’ were:
USA 48%; GBR 41%; FRA 11%; ITA 16%; BRA 18%.
Conversely, by country responses to the answer ‘forties” were:
USA 12%; GBR 22%; FRA 39%; ITA 38%; BRA31%.
Simply stated, American women believe that we reach the age of ‘ideal’ beauty before 30. We are ALONE in that belief among women around the world. The British women aren’t far behind us, and both groups have a staggeringly different self-perception than French, Italian and Brazilian women. Anne
British Women Lead Men in Launching ‘Ethical’ Businesses
London June 25, 2009
The London Times explores the reason why so many British women are launching ethical businesses. A recent survey in England reports that 60 percent of women thought that ethical and environmental considertations in business were important, compared with only 48 per cent of men.
We believe that in the US, women also dominate over men in embracing these values, but believe that the European women are generally more advanced in making issues like sustainability, the environment, and fair trade key planks of their business mission.
One of my goals here in our Smart Sensuality column, is to ask the question of American women, why we lag European women in these business priorities and to track the evolution of Smart Sensuality women who will embrace them. Read Businesswomen making work a greener place, via London Times.
Increasingly, Career Takes Precedence Over Children for British Women
London June 26, 2009
Countless Smart Sensuality women are mothers: Madonna, Michelle Obama, Queen Rania, Susan Sarandon, Carla Bruni, Angelina Jolie, Sophia Lauren. This famous field comes to mind, before I review the younger set.
Reality is, however, that increasing numbers of women in developed countries are choosing not to have children. (Note that adult women choosing to be single mothers is also the largest segment of single parents.) A study released yesterday in England confirms that 19 per cent of women born in 1960 are choosing to remain childless.
These women are healthy females, often married or cohabitating, and typically sexually active. A similar pattern exists in the US. via London Times
“Rape Trees” Along US Border
via Latina, Julian CardonaWe don’t have to travel all the way to the Middle East to find crimes against women. Latina previously posted a photo that caught our eye this morning. Affirming the fact that the violence in Mexico is heading north into the US, cartel members are marking their territory with “rape trees”.
These “rape trees” are places where cartel members and coyotes rape female border crossers and hang their clothes, specifically undergarments, to mark their conquest and territory.
Read also a followup piece on Latina: The Steep Price of Immigration for Latin American Women.
New York June 25, 2009
Women Artistic Directors Turn Away Scripts From Female Playwrights
It’s easy to assume that female playwrights are produced less frequently than males because of the male-dominated ‘power structure’. But recent Princeton grad Emily Glassberg Sands has added an important new body of research to the growing evidence that women discriminate against other women, more than men do.
As part of her senior thesis, Glassberg sent four unpublished plays to artistic directors around the country, each written by an accomplished female playwright. Male artistic directors assigned nearly identical ratings, regardless of gender. The women artistic directors asigned “markedly lower ratings to a script” with a female pen name. via Bloomberg
Christian Amanpour
New York June 24, 2009
One of the most respected people in journalism, Christian Amanpour is most connected with stories about the Middle East and Muslim women in general. Based in New York as CNN’s chief international correspondent, Amanpour has reported on every major crisis around the globe.
We who watch her regularly are accustomed to seeing Christian on the ground, head typically covered, reporting live in her articulate, steady voice. Lesley Stahl shares an in-depth interview of Smart Sensuality woman Christian Amanpour for wowOwow.
Nancy Pelosi
Washington, DC July 24, 2009
US Speaker of the House Nancy Polosi’s approval ratings are south of 40 percent (still higher than Congress overall) but Politico reports that she’s maintained a firm grip on Congress.
Pelosi dropped the gauntlet on climate action, saying that she would not only force movement on the massive cap-and-trade bill before Congress recesses on July 4, but that she would pass the bill.
In saying that she would deliver victory on the Waxman-Markey climate-energy-bill, Nancy Pelosi took a big gamble, setting herself up for a daring political victory or the biggest defeat of her six months as President Barack Obama’s legislative ramrod.
Zahra Rahnavard
Tehran - June 24, 2009
Iranian activist and wife of the country’s main opposition leader Zahra Rahnavard issued a call earlier today for the immediate release of Iranians detained in election protests.
“I regret the arrest of many politicians and people and want their immediate release,” Zahra Rahnavard, who has been playing an influential role in the protests, declared, according to news reports. “It is my duty to continue legal protests to preserve Iranian rights.” (via NYTimes)
Feminism in Italy
The London Times peels away the outer layer of gender relations in Italy, with the warning that looks are deceiving.
Yes, Italian men do less housework than in most ‘advanced’ countries. The ongoing saga of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi illuminates a deeply-seeded chauvinism towards women — or so it seems. Not so fast, cautions London times writer Sarah Vine.
Many Italians see the PM’s actions as ones of impotence, not virile masculinity. Vine argues that Italy continues to represent a matriarchal society, not as extreme as China’s Mosuo Matriarchy, but female centric, nevertheless.
Woman Power in Iran
The women of Iran are reaching for their own power and the whole world is watching. Slate Magazine writes that not Obama, nore Bush and not even Twitter are at the heart of what’s going on in Iran. Years of deligent work define the public defiance going on in Iran, and women not only participate, but often lead. (See Redtracker: In the Streets of Iran, Zahra Rahnavard Leads the Greens but We Also Hear from a Red.)
The Iranian clerics in and out of Iran know that women poses a profound threat to their authority and leadership. On the short term, clerics may prevail with force against Muslim women.
Slate introduces us to the One Million Signatures campaign, an online organization calling for an end to alws that end discrimination for Muslim women in Iran. See also the Human Rights & Democracy for Iran website.
Carla Bruni Sarkozy
Carla Bruni Bruni promised to stop the touring gigs in her singing career, after becoming First Lady of France.
But soon after taking on her official duties Carla told a documentary film maker: ‘No more sex, no more drugs, only rock and roll.’
Now the Carla is headed to Madison Square Garden on July 18, joining Aretha Franklin, Cyndi Lauper, Alicia Keyes and Stevie Wonder in celebrating Nelson Mandela’s 91st birthday.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy
Sarkozy lashed out Monday the small but growing number of women in France who are wearing burqas.
“The burqa is not a religious sign, it’s a sign of subservience, a sign of debasement — I want to say it solemnly,” he said. “It will not be welcome on the territory of the French Republic.”
In France, the terms “burqa” and “niqab” often are used interchangeably. The former refers to a full-body covering worn largely in Afghanistan with only a mesh screen over the eyes, whereas the latter is a full-body veil, often in black, with slits for the eyes.
France’s junior minister for human rights, Rama Yade, said she was open to a ban if it is aimed at protecting women forced to wear the burqa.
Angelina Jolie on CNN with Anderson Cooper 360
There’s an infinite number of reasons why Angelina Jolie is so admired as a Smart Sensuality woman, but her sensitivity to global problems is so much more than lip service.
United Nations Goodwill Ambassador Angelina talks about the amazing spirits of refugee children, comparing their resilience with her own children’s less demanding lives, while fighting back the tears.
Angelina Jolie and her husband Bradd Pitt have just donated $1 million to the refugee crisis in Pakistan. A
Hillary Clinton
Our Smart Sensuality Secretary of State has reinvented herself, according to Politico, who describes her as a disciplined Obama loyalist. Mrs Clinton is running an old-fashioned era of ‘grindstone leadership’ over at Foggy Bottom.
“Her star power has been an enormously effective tool for us,” Tom Donilon, the deputy national security adviser with a central role in running foreign policy day to day, told POLITICO, describing the attention she commands abroad and her access to foreign leaders.
Mrs. Clinton is said to work incredibly well with alpha males.
Betsy Markey
Rep. Betsy Markey (D-Colo) isn’t worried to say that her life goal wasn’t to make lattes. Times have evolved a little bit for Smart Sensuality women.
It was only a few years back that Markey’s daybook was filled with the commitments of a wife and working mother of three. After establishing solid businesses — including an IT firm and a coffee shop in Old Town Fort Collins, Colo. (the latter of which she sold for twice what she paid for it) — Markey had other ambitions.
Markey displays a similar patter to Hillary Clinton, as a Smart Sensuality woman. She’s charming but highly disciplined, devoted to detail and the lives of her constituents. Reading about both Secretary of State Clinton and Betsy Markey on Politico, I’m reminded that Smart Sensuality women are active powerhouses when it comes to getting things done.
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