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\nOur new President (hallelujah AMEN!) is looking like a kid on Christmas in this pic in The New York Times<\/a> today.\u00c2\u00a0 I am utterly excited, please please don’t get me wrong.\u00c2\u00a0 But I spy only one chick at this table.\u00c2\u00a0 I’m optimistic that Obama’s emerging transition team will include a few more!<\/p>\n And in that spirit, I bring you this STELLAR (if I say so myself!) forum convened by the National Council for Research on Women, over at their new blog The REAL Deal<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 Check out these messages to the Transition Team now up at their site:<\/p>\n Women Leaders Dream Big and Urge Transition Team to Bring Women and Women\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Issues to the Center of the New Administration, Notes Council President Linda Basch<\/a><\/p>\n Says Women\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Media Center President Carol Jenkins, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Our Work Has Just Begun\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/a><\/p>\n Women\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s eNews Founder and Editor-in-Chief Calls for Office of Maternal Health, Title IX Task Force, and More<\/a><\/p>\n Women\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Funding Network President and CEO Urges New Government to Embrace Women as Experts and Decision Makers<\/a><\/p>\n White House Project President Calls for Presidential Commission on Women and Democracy<\/a><\/p>\n National Women\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Studies Association Leader Calls for Federal Dept of Women\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Affairs<\/a><\/p>\n National Women\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Law Center Says The Nation Has No Time to Spare<\/a><\/p>\n