Thanks to friends, colleagues and tweeters for their fabulous news links and as ever, to the invaluable news round up from the Women's Funding Network.

GIRLS ACTION MEMBER IN THE NEWS
How one leader makes a huge difference (Catherine Porter, Toronto Star)
http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/article/839405--porter-how-one-leader-ma...

COMMUNICATING WELL?
Or not so well: Maclean's magazine August 2010 cover (Generation gap between today's mothers and daughters)

How Women Use the Web (Jennifer Van Grove, Mashable)
http://mashable.com/2010/07/28/women-on-the-web/

Survey Says: Why Women May Love Facebook and Twitter More Than Shoes: Almost half of women ages 18 to 34 consider themselves "Facebook addicts" and 15 percent of moms check Twitter "every waking moment," according to new research (Rieva Lesonsky, AOL)
http://smallbusiness.aol.com/2010/07/28/survey-says-why-women-may-love-f...

How to Win Media Coverage (Lisa Barone, Small Business Trends)
http://smallbiztrends.com/2010/07/smb-media-coverage.html

Popularity Is Irrelevant, Says New Measure of Influence on Twitter
A unique analysis of influence on Twitter shows that an obscure Indonesian filmmaker is just as good at propagating memes as @Google (MIT Technology Review)
http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/mimssbits/25574/?ref=rss

Eat Less says Urban Outfitters (Sophia Bush, Blog)
http://www.sophiabush.com/blog/?jid=3

Ann Taylor: "We Agree Our Retouching Has Been Overzealous" (Jezebel)
http://jezebel.com/5605608/ann-taylor-we-agree-our-retouching-has-been-o...
 

SEXUALITY
Outraged moms, trashy daughters: How did those steeped in the women’s lib movement produce girls who think being a sex object is powerful? (Anne Kingston, Maclean's)
http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/08/10/outraged-moms-trashy-daughters/

Dance right out of this class: pole dancing is being marketed to prepubescent girls (Calgary Herald)
http://www.calgaryherald.com/health/Dance+right+this+class/3371818/story...

Images of pregnancy, representations of birth: Pregnant celebrities post for photoshoots, we have childbirth-focused reality TV shows - but, argues Sara De Benedictis, only a sanatised, product-driven version of natality has gained the limelight (F-Word)
http://www.thefword.org.uk/features/2010/08/the_birth_of_a

Rape: treat the cause, not the symptom (Amy Nicholson, The f word)
http://www.thefword.org.uk/features/2010/07/rape_treat_the

The “Mad Men” Effect: Bringing Back Sexism with Style (Ms Magazine)
http://msmagazine.com/blog/blog/2010/07/22/the-mad-men-effect-bringing-b...

Betty and Veronica grow up (Mike Boone, Montreal Gazette)
http://www.montrealgazette.com/health/Betty+Veronica+grow/3311660/story....

HEALTH MATTERS
Girls as young as 7 hitting puberty: U.S. study (CTV News)
http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/TopStories/20100809/young-girls-hitting-pubert...

Honeymoon cystitis? Cystitis is bad enough, says Hannah Fearn. But why are doctors so dismissive? (The F-Word)
http://www.thefword.org.uk/features/2010/08/honeymoon_cysti

Women Feel More Pain Than Men: Women experience more chronic pain and they're less tolerant of the pain than men, according to a new review of research (Emily Sohn, Discovery News)
http://news.discovery.com/human/women-men-pain.html

'This is not how patients should be treated': Two years after mental health care reform, problems still abound, critics argue (Charlie Fidelman, Montreal Gazette)
http://www.montrealgazette.com/health/This+patients+should+treated/33571...

Deception used in counselling women against abortion (Joanna Smith, Toronto Star)
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/844997

Forget the guilt, daycare does your kids no harm (Janet Bagnall, Montreal Gazette)
http://www.montrealgazette.com/life/Forget+guilt+daycare+does+your+kids+...

Babies don't suffer when mothers return to work, study reveals (Tracy McVeigh and Anushka Asthana, The Observer)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2010/aug/01/babies-dont-suffer-wo...

CHICK LIT
Chick Lit? Women's Literature? Why Not Just ... Literature? (Diane Meier, Huffington Post)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/diane-meier/chick-lit-womens-literatu_b_67...

Men at the centre of the story: Barbara Kingsolver has finally won the Orange Prize. Sarah Bryne wonders, is it a coincidence that she has been recognised for The Lacuna, her first novel with a male protagonist? (F-Word)
http://www.thefword.org.uk/reviews/2010/08/men_at_the_cent

Half the Sky: how the other half suffer: Half the Sky has been described as 'a brutal awakening' and is a bestseller in the US. But can its accounts of violence and injustice to women in the developing world really come as such a surprise? (Germaine Greer, The Guardian)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2010/jul/31/half-the-sky-germaine...

ECONOMICALLY-SPEAKING
Flexible office means women's work is never done (Nicolas Van Praet, Financial Post)
http://www.financialpost.com/related/topics/Flexible+office+means+women+...

Attractive women overlooked for certain jobs: study - Too hot to be an engineer or prison guard? (Belinda Goldsmith, Reuters)
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE67807G20100809

Boosting Canada's economic fortunes to dominate premiers meeting (Jason Fekete, Calgary Herald)
http://www.vancouversun.com/business/Boosting+Canada+economic+fortunes+d...

Where Were the Women? Harriet Rubin, author of The Princessa: Machiavelli for Women, introduces a passage on the urgent need for a more inclusive approach to leadership from The Female Vision: Women’s Real Power at Work by Sally Helgesen and Julie Johnson (Harriet Rubin, strategy+business)
http://www.strategy-business.com/article/ac00015

What Wealthy Women Want: Women constitute a rising share of the world’s wealth and wealth-management decisions. So why are they often ignored by wealth-management firms? (Robert Frank, Wall Street Journal)
http://blogs.wsj.com/wealth/2010/07/29/what-wealthy-women-want/
PIC: http://online.wsj.com/media/grace_D_20100730160846.jpg

When it comes to business, does being female matter? Complaints are growing that a cut in government support for entrepreneurs will hit women-led start-ups particularly hard and could affect future growth (Richard Tyler, Daily Telegraph)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/businessclub/7908560/When-it-comes-to...

What I've learned as a woman business owner in construction (Deborah Muñoz-Chacon, Inside Tuscon Business)
http://www.azbiz.com/articles/2010/07/23/sales_marketing/women_in_busine...

One Step Forward, Two Steps Back: The number of women-owned firms may be growing, but their share of total business revenue is declining (Kent Hoover, Portfolio.com)
http://www.portfolio.com/views/blogs/entrepreneurship/2010/07/24/women-o...

INSPIRING WOMEN
A Brief History of Women in Power (Time)
http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,2005290,00.html

Fighting parents' foreclosure, Diamond Bar student wins rounds against Deutsche Bank: With no legal training, Zeenat Ali, 23, has been doing battle in court, winning judgments against the bank and two other companies mainly on procedural grounds (E. Scott Reckard, Los Angeles Times)
http://articles.latimes.com/2010/aug/05/business/la-fi-foreclosure-battl...

Valedictorian Speaks Out Against Schooling in Graduation Speech (Erica Goldson, Coxsackie-Athens High School)
http://blog.swiftkickonline.com/2010/07/valedictorian-speaks-out-against...

Shirley Chisholm '72: Unbought and Unbossed (Documentary)
http://www.veoh.com/browse/videos/category/news_politics/watch/v17165324...

SPORTSMANSHIP
The woman who could save ESPN: Mary Jo Kane has long criticized sexism in sports. Now, the media critic is entering the belly of the beast (Salon.com)
http://www.salon.com/life/broadsheet/2010/07/28/mary_jo_kane_espn

Why isn't cheerleading a sport? A judge's decision to exclude cheering from Title IX riles coaches and supporters -- but is it a loss for women? (Mary Elizabeth Williams, Salon)
http://www.salon.com/life/broadsheet/2010/07/23/cheerleading_is_not_a_sport
 

AROUND THE WORLD
Iranian facing stoning speaks: 'It's because I'm a woman': Exclusive: Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani accuses authorities in Tehran of lying about charges in attempt to execute her in secret (Saeed Kamali Dehghan, The Guardian)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/aug/06/sakineh-mohammadi-ashtiani-i...

Teenage Girls Undergo 'Breast Ironing' In Cameroon (Huffington Post)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/23/teenage-girls-undergo-bre_n_656...

French police accused of rough tactics in immigrant eviction: A disturbing video showing French police evicting immigrants of African descent is causing an uproar in France. The video shows police dragging away women who were demonstrating against their eviction from a block of flats (The Guardian)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2010/aug/02/france

Max Foster’s biased coverage of police brutality against immigrant women in France (Rose, Feministing)
http://feministing.com/2010/08/02/max-fosters-biased-coverage-of-police-...

IN OUR OWN BACKYARD
Non-profits need the long form census (Dana Lacey, Financial Post)
http://www.financialpost.com/todays-paper/profits+need+long+form+census/...

Census fight kills woman's fight to recognize unpaid housework (Jeremy Warren, Postmedia News/Vancouver Sun)
http://www.vancouversun.com/life/Census+fight+kills+woman+fight+recogniz...
 

G8/G20 Communique: G20 violence against women (Krystalline Kraus, Rabble.ca)
http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/statica/2010/07/g8g20-communiqu%C3%A9-g2...

Women still vanishing from Vancouver's eastside (James Keller and Tamsyn Burgmann, The Canadian Press in Toronto Star)
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/842988--women-still-vanishing...

Violence against women: an international epidemic: The problem persists around the world – and it’s also an urgent reason to fear our own government (Gerald Caplan, The Globe & Mail)
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/violence-against-women-an-i...

Helena Guergis issues veiled threat to Tories (Daniel Leblanc, Globe & Mail)
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ottawa-notebook/helena-guer...