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Melissa Silverstein is a writer, blogger and marketing consultant with an expertise in the area of social media regarding women and Hollywood. She is the founder and editor of Women and Hollywood, one of the most respected sites for issues related to women and film as well as other areas of pop culture. She is the Artistic Director and co-founder of the Athena Film Festival – A Celebration of Women and Leadership at Barnard College in NYC. The third annual festival will take place from February 7-10, 2013.

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Here we are again. Nine years after Martha Burk tried to get the August National to allow a woman member we are still at a place where there is still not a female member since the club's founding in 1933. In 1990, the club let in an African American member, but in 2011 there is still no female that we know of. (Augusta is famous for not speaking on the membership policies because it is a private club.)

By Melissa Silverstein
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April 5, 2012 12:15 PM
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Hope Solo is a competitive athlete. She's won Olympic gold. World Cup Silver. The Golden Glove Award at this summer's Women's World Cup. She is probably the best female goalkeeper in the world.

Yet, those judges on Dancing With the Stars made this incredibly fit woman feel inadequate.

In an interview she did with Anderson Cooper after she was booted off the show she talked about how naive she was going into the competition, and how she was told she had too much muscle and wasn't dainty enough.