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		<title>&#8220;Anything a man can do, I can fix&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 22:13:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a very funny, inspiring, touching and awakening video about a very interesting mother and about our own humanity. It is told from the voice of a son, one everyone should hear: Chris Abani: Telling stories of our shared humanity.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=societybackbone.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3554099&amp;post=136&amp;subd=societybackbone&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>An amazing passion: Isabel Allende and passion</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 02:53:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Isabel Allende speaks to a variety of women issues and needs and strengths with a very inspiring, funny and encouraging voice in this video titled Isabel Allende: Tales of passion. Very funny comments about Sophia Loren&#8217;s beauty and very amazing, deep and serious stories about women.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=societybackbone.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3554099&amp;post=118&amp;subd=societybackbone&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Missing Voices</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 14:37:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://societybackbone.wordpress.com/?p=85</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In one of my earlier posts, Inspiring a better world with courage and entrepreneurship I mentioned that a particular project, The Women’s International Perspectives, had called my attention because it brings to the forefront the under representation of women’s voices in on-line news publication. After I stumbled into this project I spent an entire evening [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=societybackbone.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3554099&amp;post=85&amp;subd=societybackbone&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Flourish Superwoman!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2008 14:24:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://societybackbone.wordpress.com/?p=84</guid>
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		<title>Could Web 2.0 help women be other women’s best friends?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jul 2008 15:08:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://societybackbone.wordpress.com/?p=82</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There is hardly any professional woman out there that doesn’t have at least one personal anecdote they use as an example that “women can be other women’s worst enemy.” I have always disliked this generalization because, for every woman’ story, there are many more examples about men being each other worst enemy. Men’s mantra tends [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=societybackbone.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3554099&amp;post=82&amp;subd=societybackbone&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Socially Responsible Immigration?</title>
		<link>http://societybackbone.wordpress.com/2008/07/09/socially-responsible-immigration/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 21:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://societybackbone.wordpress.com/?p=74</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[During dinner last night, my husband, who patiently endures my conversations and at time monologues about social responsibility and women subject matters, asked me as he usually does an insightful question that sent me deeper into the subjects: To what country are immigrants subject to being responsible to and how? Since my husband’s question had [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=societybackbone.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3554099&amp;post=74&amp;subd=societybackbone&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Girl Effect: Invest in a Girl and</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 13:23:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://societybackbone.wordpress.com/?p=65</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[she will do the rest. One of the things I really like about what’s going on in today’s technology world is that no matter what subject matter I am researching, sooner than later I find the intersection between technology, social responsibility, entrepreneurship and women. It is just amazing to discover how much people are doing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=societybackbone.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3554099&amp;post=65&amp;subd=societybackbone&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Square Watermelon&#8230;no kidding!</title>
		<link>http://societybackbone.wordpress.com/2008/07/07/square-watermelonno-kidding/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 02:56:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hardnoklife has a funny, but encouraging post titled Lessons of the Square Watermelons about the growing of square watermelons in Japan. Although the subject doesn&#8217;t directly address women, Knox&#8217;s points apply to every single endeavor we might be taking: 1. Don’t Assume 2. Question Habits 3. Be Creative 4. Look for a Better Way 5. Impossibilities Often Aren’t [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=societybackbone.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3554099&amp;post=50&amp;subd=societybackbone&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Broken Backbone? Reality of Social Services</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 00:40:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last Friday evening my husband and I spent some time with our neighbor Mike and his girlfriend Lisa. Best neighbors we could have ever asked for. Lisa has been a Head Start teacher for almost ten years and makes just under $9.00 per hour, no health benefits. Although I have no children nor intend to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=societybackbone.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3554099&amp;post=63&amp;subd=societybackbone&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>To Choose or Not to Choose</title>
		<link>http://societybackbone.wordpress.com/2008/07/05/to-choose-or-not-to-choose/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jul 2008 17:58:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple of recently published studies about women in science, engineering and technology are making the rounds in the blogosphere and are creating an interesting dialog about why is it that women&#8217;s participation in these fields is much lower than that of men. The most recent one was published last month by The Center for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=societybackbone.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3554099&amp;post=57&amp;subd=societybackbone&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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