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"Since we had to push your regularly scheduled Sunday news roundup to Monday because of the silly old Mother&amp;#x27;s Day thing (ugh, celebrating inspiring women--what&amp;#x27;s that doing on this blog, right?), we&amp;#x27;ve got a super-sized news roundup waiting for you. Ready for some fist-pumpers and head-scratchers? &amp;#x27;Cause I have both awaiting after the jump! Michele Bachmann Claims Swiss Citizenship This week in the weirdest possible news ever, politician Michelle Bachman became a citizen of Switzerland on March 19, making her eligible to run for office in the country. Bachman was able to apply to be a Swiss citizen due to her husband&amp;#x27;s father&amp;#x27;s Swiss citizenship, which allows her to claim citizenship, as well. Do you think she&amp;#x27;ll make a political move in Switzerland, a historically neutral political country? Reuters Team Wins May Sidney for Childhood Obesity Expose Congratulations to the team behind &amp;quot;How Washington Went Soft on Childhood Obesity&amp;quot;, who won a May Sidney Award for their reporting. And yes, you guessed it--one of the two reporters on the team is a woman: Janet Roberts! This is a story you don&amp;#x27;t want to miss. What Does &amp;quot;Professional&amp;quot; Look Like Today? At the Harvard Business Review blog, Allison Fine looks at the world &amp;quot;professional&amp;quot; in the context of social media. She says, &amp;quot;The real problem is that using social media challenges their basic assumptions of what it means to be &amp;#x27;professional.&amp;#x27; The definition of professional behavior is an immutable set of behaviors developed early in one&amp;#x27;s career.&amp;quot; In War for Talent, &amp;#x27;Brogrammers&amp;#x27; Will Be Losers At CNN.com, web and mobile app developer Gina Trapani talks about the war for talent in the tech industry, and says that those companies that are recruiting women and men equally are the ones that are going to win out. Sexism is having a major influence on the working environment for women in tech in 2012. Fewer Women in Top U.S. Tech Jobs Since 2010 ...and speaking of which, Reuters reports that there are fewer of us in top U.S. tech jobs since 2010. OUCH. &amp;quot;Nine percent of U.S. chief information officers (CIOs) are female, down from 11 percent last year and 12 percent in 2010.&amp;quot; Are any of you striving to make this number change? Bristol Palin&amp;#x27;s Gay Marriage Rant: Obama Girls Watch Too Much &amp;#x27;Glee&amp;#x27; Caitlin McDevitt on Politico reports on Bristol Palin&amp;#x27;s recent blog post in which she writes that Malia and Sasha Obama have influenced their father&amp;#x27;s opinion on gay marriage. From the post: &amp;#x27;&amp;amp;#8220;While it&amp;amp;#8217;s great to listen to your kids&amp;amp;#8217; ideas, there&amp;amp;#8217;s also a time when dads simply need to be dads,&amp;#x27; Bristol, the eldest daughter of former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, wrote in a blog post titled &amp;#x27;Hail to the Chiefs - Malia and Sasha Obama&amp;#x27; on Thursday.&amp;quot; Here&amp;#x27;s the rest of Bristol Palin&amp;#x27;s blog post--what are your thoughts on this? Chances That An Adult Minimum Wage Worker is a Woman Ready for an infographic that&amp;#x27;ll drop your jaw? (Spoiler alert: Women make up the majority in this one...and that&amp;#x27;s not a good thing. Pedophilia Documentarian: &amp;amp;#8220;Eighteen Is Just A Number&amp;amp;#8221; If you&amp;#x27;re not reading BuzzFeed Shift yet, you&amp;#x27;re a crazyperson. Anna North writes about the fascinating documentary Are All Men Pedophiles? , which argues that sex between teenagers and adults shouldn&amp;#x27;t such a controversial, and--if you&amp;#x27;ll excuse the pun--hands-off issue. What do you think after reading about this? 3 Things Professional Women Should Stop Apologizing For The title says it all: Pro ladies, stop apologizing for these three things if you want to get ahead. Amber Mac over at Fast Company is your guide. Phoenix High School Baseball Team Balks Over Having to Face Team With a Girl In Title Game Did you hear about this insanity in Arizona? The Phoenix high school Paige Sultzbach attends doesn&amp;#x27;t have a softball team, so the talented athlete plays on the all-boys baseball. And she&amp;#x27;s darn good--her team was slated to play in the state championship last week. Oh, except for one thing: their opponents forfeited because the otherwise-male roster included a girl. Yes, really. What&amp;#x27;s your reaction to the story? Argentina OKs Transgender Rights: ID Changes, Sex-Change Operations, and Hormone Therapy Major news in Argentina for gender rights: The country has unanimously approved a measure to cover sex-change surgery or hormone therapy under public or private heath care plans under a gender rights law. &amp;quot;The measure also gives people the right to specify how their gender is listed at the civil registry when their physical characteristics don&amp;amp;#8217;t match how they see themselves.&amp;quot; Femanomics: 105 Women in Venture Capital and Angel Investment You Should Know It&amp;#x27;s all in the title--got an idea? TechCocktail has 105 women who may be very, very interested in your stroke of brilliance. Lots happening, I told you! Which of these stories is biggest news for you?"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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