Amy Siskind

Lately, I've become obsessed with Girls, the new HBO series about women in their 20s. Not in a joyful way. In a worried, watching a car wreck kind of way.

Okay, I'll own it. The reason I'm mesmerized by the girls in Girls -- the hapless, aimless, tragic victims --...

Wake up Goldman Sachs! If your firm had more women, things would be better.

In recent years, those of us on the outside have come to view Goldman Sachs as the perennial poster child for ethical lapses. But, when a departing employee -- an insider for 12 years -- writes...

You can thank Rush Limbaugh for the sexism revolution this spring.

His diatribe last week was the watershed. Insipid slurs meant to diminish and demean a Georgetown Law student for this offense: being a woman. More loathsome drivel on the airwaves -- a veritable war of words waged against women...

"The end of 'fair' comes the day you graduate."

That's the tough reality I deliver on campuses in speeches to college women. Most shake their head in agreement. They know what lies ahead.

Yes, in 2011, for the first time in history, women surpassed men as recipients of college...

Two weeks ago today, a college friend communicated some shocking news: our sorority sister and dear friend, Amy Friedlander, was dead. Amy was part of a murder-suicide in which her two young children, and husband, with whom she was days away from finalizing a divorce, were also found dead.

The...

During the CNN Tea Party Debate this past Monday, sparks flew over an executive order issued by Governor Rick Perry in 2007 mandating an HPV vaccination for all sixth-grade girls. At that time, Perry was the first (and only) governor to issue such an executive order, bypassing his own state...

Last summer, I wrote an article here at HuffPost, Why the 'Pro-Women' Movement Should and Will Replace Feminism. Sarah Palin had just declared herself a 'conservative feminist,' while endorsing a slew of diverse women candidates and working to get them elected. I found her efforts to get more...

When the credits rolled at the end of the pre-screening of The Undefeated my first thought was this: Why didn't Hillary's advisors think of this? It was impossible for our country to know the real Hillary Rodham Clinton through the media's sexism-colored-glasses during the 2008 presidential race. The real Hillary...

1) Our country has yet to elect a woman president -- a national embarrassment! Almost every country in Europe and Latin America; along with India, Israel, New Zealand, Canada, China, Pakistan, Rwanda and many other countries have been led by a woman. The UN cites: "The achievement...

Yesterday, Vice President Biden and Secretary Duncan announced a Sexual Assault Awareness Campaign. The impetus? The Department of Education acknowledges a grave threat to this generation: 20 percent of college women will be victims of rape or sexual assault!

We live in a civilized country, after all. Who...

Let's face it, CNN has a women problem. Need proof? Do the math. Last year, seven major anchors left CNN. Of the seven, five were women!

Should we therefore be at all surprised by CNN's modus operandi when ratings for Parker Spitzer hit the skids? Of course not. To...

Dear Naomi Wolf,

Imagine our relief today upon reading your letter to Interpol defending Mr. Assange over the allegations against him. Those Swedes just don't understand. C'mon -- what's wrong with "using his body weight to hold her down in a sexual manner"? Or "deliberately...

Well, it didn't take long. The Republican Party was handed a historic opportunity with women. For the first time since the advent of exit polling data in 1982, women voters favored the GOP in the 2010 election. A rather shocking occurrence given that just two short years ago,...

Jerry Brown just doesn't get it.

During Tuesday night's California gubernatorial debate, moderator Tom Brokaw asked Brown about a member of his staff using the word "whore" in reference to Meg Whitman:

BROKAW:.. We've heard no outrage from you about the use of that kind of language which...

President Obama sure is angry. He scolded Democrats today, telling us that our apathy is "inexcusable" and "irresponsible". Really? If you want inexcusable try this: turning the Democratic Party into "Liberal Dude Nation." Converting 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue into a veritable frat house with few women leaders...

I battled Larry Kudlow on his show, CNBC's The Kudlow Report, over the Paycheck Fairness Act. Larry thinks women are doing just fine. After all, a newly released Bureau of Labor Statistics report shows the gender pay gap closing. Women now earn, on average, 83% of...

The most prevalent, yet least well understood bias remaining in our country is sexism.

Eradicating sexism will take more than just occasional activism. We also need to educate the public on what sexism is and why it hurts our country.

Today, The New Agenda launches our "Sexism Ed"...

It's back to school time. As if parents and students don't have enough to worry about, there's an alarming study by the U.S. Department of Justice. The finding: an estimated 1 in 4 college girls will be the victim of sexual assault before they graduate. Also...

This has not been a good week for Democratic women.

First, a New York Times op-ed penned by two progressive feminists noting two disturbing trends: 1) Democratic Leaders have been bargaining away our reproductive rights, and 2) the Democratic Party is not seeking out nor encouraging strong women...

Why did President Obama choose to appear on The View? The answer is simple. The View's audience is 79% female and Obama has a women problem. Obama's approval among women voters has plunged from 59% to 45% during his term in office. Here's a shocker: just