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'Toolbelt Diva' Empowers Women CBS News
Vally pushes her girl power doctrine every chance she can - on the show and off - transforming the home improvement term do-it-yourself into a Xena-like war cry for women. There are other female-friendly home improvement shows like Lifetime's 'Merge' and WE's 'She House.' But none are as feminist-friendly as 'Diva.' Vally says 'Toolbelt Diva' is much more than just another home improvement show. This one's got a message.

'Say goodbye to `honey-do lists,'' Vally screams in the 'Diva' promo, 'because on my show, honey, you do it yourself.'

Passion for long hours punishes women By Nicholas Pyke, The Independent on Sunday, UK
The culture of long working hours in Britain is condemning women to second-class jobs, household drudgery and a poverty-stricken old age, according to the government body responsible for fighting sexism at work.

The Equal Opportunities Commission (EOC) has told The Independent on Sunday that it cannot eradicate discrimination until employers start promoting shorter hours, allowing women to care for children as well as holding down jobs. Britons work the longest hours in Europe and the result, says the EOC, is that mothers and carers are driven to the margins of employment or out of work.

Out of the Berlin Wall's rubble, East German women take lead By Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times
'Women under socialism were raised to be independent,' said Silke Schluessler, 34, who works in Hamburg and travels 125 miles on weekends to visit her husband on the eastern Baltic Sea. 'You learned you had to earn your own money. You raised children, and you had a job. Everybody worked. This wasn't so in the west. When we come here, we know we can handle it.'

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