The chances of a woman making the annual Food & Wine Magazine 10 "Best New Chefs" list are slimmer than the models on the runways at New York Fashion Week. Hence, I am making it my mission to showcase women chefs, to raise their profiles and public awareness and industry...

We're With The Banned: Cracking The Crass Ceiling

The New York Comedy Festival ad features ten men and no women.

Broadly speaking, comedy is, obviously, still a male-dominated bastion within the entertainment business. The Primetime Emmy Awards showed that women writers on a comedy or variety series are a...

"One Small Step For Man..." Who Is Missing From This Picture?

This week the media memorialized the 40th anniversary of the historic Apollo 11 first manned mission to the moon. Alas, in all the press coverage, I saw no mention of the historic contributions of NASA's women astronauts....

Take heart this Valentine's Day. My 2009 "Cost of Loving Index" notes that the price of romance is up 29 percent and matches the 29 percent "Cost of Living Index" increase in the decade from 1999 to 2009.

Isn't it romantic? I created the "Cost of Loving Index," comparing the...

The good news is that women collectively achieved high numbers of executive positions to warrant major magazines producing annual "Power" issues in 2007. Forbes published its fourth annual "100 Most Powerful Women in the World." Fortune celebrated its tenth annual "50 Most Powerful Women" in Business. Newsweek published its third...

Supreme Injustice: Vote for More Ledbetter Decisions or Better Led Decisions

Why is Joe the Plumber the media darling and Lilly Ledbetter, today's real-life Rosie the Riveter, and maverick reformer Supreme Court advocate for working women, ignored by the press?

All the media -- print, broadcast, cable, hard news, tabloid,...

Sarah Palin is living the feminist dream. She came of age post-Title IX to play with the Wasilla Warriors HS basketball team. Graduating from college, she worked as a sports reporter at a local TV station. She was elected the first woman governor of Alaska in 2006. Less than two...

Our family story of "The Four Pillows" exemplifies the formidable perseverance and fortitude of my maternal foremothers.

Grandma Rose Gordon was 16 when she left Russia with two girlfriends to come to America. Her family was planning to join her later. But her father died in a fire and she...

At last week's Tribute to Beverly Sills at the Metropolitan Opera House, celebrities, dignitaries, family, friends and fans eulogized the supreme soprano and extraordinary woman before a standing room audience of almost 4,000 admirers. Fans started lining up at 2 a.m. for tickets. However, one aspect of her esteemed career...

Althea Gibson's induction into the US Open Court of Champions this week, on the 50th anniversary of her historic title victory, was inspiring. The Opening Night Tribute, to celebrate living African-American women who have also broken barriers in sports, entertainment, politics and the arts, was impressive. Venus and Serena Williams...

Few women were the subject of cover stories in the major news and business magazines in 2006, based on my first annual "Women and Major Magazines Cover Stories Monitor."

As a journalist and media monitor, I had noticed the deficit of women as magazines cover stories subjects. But I...