As an author of a new book on women, Broad Influence: How Women Are Changing the Way America Works, I’ve often used the term female to describe women in the workforce: female lawmakers, female voters, female police officers, etc. I did this because to say “women [insert X noun]” would be grammatically incorrect: women or woman are nouns, while female is an adjective that modifies a noun.
So, I was surprised postpublication to see some feminists take exception to my usage of the word female. Read More...
The Publisher Resources page has a bit where they tell you the badge ranking criteria.They DID change the criteria a year-plus ago so that an item must have sold for at least $.2 (20 cents USD) to count as a "sale" for the purposes of earning a badge. The change was retroactive, so a bunch of products that had earned medals due to extremely low pricing lost them.
Common wisdom says anticipate earning a badge once you have exceeded its minimum sale count by 5-10%. Read More...
LOGAN, Utah — More than a year ago, Willa Mason was in her first-grade class when her teacher told the students about the annual Reflections contest. The National PTA Reflections program provides thousands of students of all grades and abilities the chance to create original works of art in various categories, including literature, music composition, photography, visual arts, film production and dance choreography. As the young member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints listened to the different categories, one word immediately grabbed Willa’s attention. Read More...