On the Links Part 1

We've scoured the Internet for interesting stories and found a bumper crop. Here are 5 articles to keep you thinking until next week, when we'll post 5 more.

On Forbes.com's ForbesWoman Views blog, Carol Kinsey Goman writes about Ten Body Language Mistakes Women Leaders Make. The post includes a video and, unfortunately, you'll probably find yourself nodding along (mistake #5 "Nodding too much").

Inspired by the new Piers Paul Read novel, The Misogynist, Hannah Betts writes in the Guardian that "women are happy to let feminists get bashed." She notes, "it is a lamentable idiosyncrasy of feminism that, unlike other rights movements — the campaigns against prejudice based on race, class, or sexuality — its beneficiaries take their emancipation and run." She also asks, "How is it that misogyny somehow fails to qualify as hatred?"

Here's something unexpected but also long overdue: A new anthology, My Little Red Book, presents stories of women's first periods. Editor Rachel Kauder Nalebuff created it as a way to get those first, often awkward conversations going between mothers and daughters. The stories are written by both established authors — including Judy Blume, Erica Jong and Gloria Steinem — and women whose names are less familiar. And all the proceeds go to charities involved in women's health. Read the rave review on on the book blog Flying Off the Shelves.

Great news! The Wall Street Journal online tells us there's No Glass Ceiling for the Best Job in the World! Click here to find out what it is.

In early July, MetaFilter asked readers to nominate real-life female role models. The results are varied and fascinating — from Clara Barton and Josephine Baker to Dr. Sylvia Earle and Michelle Obama. People are continuing to post their nominations, so why not join in?

— by Michele Hush