This is great. Glad to see that Ban Ki Moon has taken care to select not only a good number of women to high-level positions, but women of color. It's about time.

Good catch, JV. I have worked a great deal on the international scene and I will say I have met a huge number of outstanding professional women in those circles. America gets a lot of international cred for having outstanding, spunky national women's soccer and softball teams, but to be perfectly honest, my sense is that there is a disproportionate level of women's participation overseas vs. the US in geopolitics, global business and finance, environmental initiatives, areas of an international nature. I know I am being provocative here, but I would hate for American women to lose their lead thinking they are ahead of women in the rest of the world. Let's not allow Republicans to get you ladies to be complacent, as they have with everyone else. I am EXTREMELY disappointed in the lack of comments on your posting on Rachel Maddow...that to me indicates a certain lack of engagement in politics and the very important national and international issues of today, in comparison to American cultural feminism. I will be curious as to whether my provocation here will spark a more lively discussion than a few comments. I actually hope you guys come at me with rage and fury!

Good catch, JV. I have worked a great deal on the international scene and I will say I have met a huge number of outstanding professional women in those circles. America gets a lot of international cred for having outstanding, spunky national women's soccer and softball teams, but to be perfectly honest, my sense is that there is a disproportionate level of women's participation overseas vs. the US in geopolitics, global business and finance, environmental initiatives, areas of an international nature. I know I am being provocative here, but I would hate for American women to lose their lead thinking they are ahead of women in the rest of the world. Let's not allow Republicans to get you ladies to be complacent, as they have with everyone else. I am EXTREMELY disappointed in the lack of comments on your posting on Rachel Maddow...that to me indicates a certain lack of engagement in politics and the very important national and international issues of today, in comparison to American cultural feminism (e.g., the Keira Knightley thread). I will be curious as to whether my provocation here will spark a more lively discussion than a few comments. I actually hope you guys come at me with rage and fury!

CNBC- I am really starting to find your comments aggravating. I do not like it when people talk to a group of women as "you ladies" and follow up by chiding us on what we comment on. It's really patronizing and makes you look like a sarcastic troll. We don't have to comment on something to take it seriously. I certainly don't speak for other posters, not just women mind you, but there are some topics that I am very passionate about and so I have a hard time articulating my thoughts because they come out of me like a flood. Please stop talking down to the rest of us that read and post and stop telling us how to be good little feminists. You seem like an intelligent person with an interest in feminism, but you don't seem to take it seriously. Some of us do take it seriously and you come off like you are trying to be offensive. If you don't want to be labeled a troll, than please stop with the offensive language.