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Massachusetts’s leading ladies call for female candidates

CHESTNUT HILL – Some of Massachusetts's top Democratic and Republican women gathered Friday at Boston College Law School to discuss barriers to women in politics, strongly agreeing across party lines that more women need to run for political office. U.S. Rep. Katherine Clark (D-Natick), former Massachusetts Governor Jane

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Lawmakers, not lawbreakers: director Sarah Gavron on ‘Suffragette’

British film director Sarah Gavron's latest feature film, "Suffragette," which opened in the U.S. Friday, and debuts in East Coast theaters this weekend, is a gritty period-piece about the English women who struggled for nearly 70 years for the right to vote. Starring Carey Mulligan,