Welcome to the LaRuelist Report WOMEN'S KORNER. We've designed this section to post upcoming events, controversial and/or current event issues, or profiles of women on the move.

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Gov. Chris Christie has named former Republican state Assembly candidate and Lawrence resident Kim Taylor to the board of the Trenton Housing Authority, according to the governor’s office.

Rosalyn Taylor O’Neale, Vice President & Chief Diversity & Inclusion Officer at Campbell Soup Company, is one of the nation’s preeminent speakers, educators and consultants on leadership, diversity and inclusion, race and gender.

She grew up in the 50’s spending her childhood in what was then a very segregated South.

From the 50’s into the 2...   Read More >>

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Virginia's General Assembly has elected the first black woman to the state's Supreme Court.

Cleo Powell was elected by unanimous votes in the House and the Senate on Friday along with Elizabeth McClanahan. Both are being elevated from current positions on the Virginia Court of Appeals.

Two vacancies had slowed the work fl...   Read More >>

JERUSALEM (WOMENSENEWS)--For the first six months after Huda El-Jack sold her California house and moved to the West Bank in 2003, she had second thoughts.

"I wondered what the heck I had done," she laughs during a phone interview. "I still sometimes wonder. I have a lot of questions about whether that was a good decision."

A controversial new doll is leaving some parents wishing for the good old Cabbage Patch days.

A Spanish toymaker known as Berjuan has developed a breast-feeding doll that comes with a special halter top its young "mothers" wear as they pretend to breast- feed their "babies." The halter top has daisies that cover the little girls’...   Read More >>

Okay, so we finished second in the whole world of soccer, and some of the philosophers among us sneer that finishing second is like kissing your sister.

I watched every second of that title match Sunday and I got so caught up in it that I forgot I was watching women, our women and the Japanese women. I wound up thinking what remarkable athletes thes...   Read More >>

If there was real gender parity, I said last week, women would be able to be brilliant and total failures – great and not so great, heroes and anti-heroes, just like men. It was at a lively debate on women in politics at the House of Commons. Too blasé, methinks now, simplistic, an ethically dubious position when one considers recent examples of atrociou...   Read More >>

The Great Recession hit men especially hard. But in the long, shaky recovery, they’re now outpacing women in finding employment.

That’s surprising because in past recoveries, women have tended to get re-employed faster than men — making this another of the many ways in which this recovery is different.

According to a new Pew Research Center s...   Read More >>

Bangkok (CNN) -- Yingluck Shinawatra was poised to become Thailand's first female prime minister Sunday after her party won a majority of parliamentary seats in the nation's general elections.

The official tally had not yet been completed, but with more than 90 percent of votes counted Sunday night, Yingluck's Pheu Thai party had won 262 seats in th...   Read More >>