The recent New York Times Magazine feature on women's global rights did not include any mention of key women's organizations such as WEDO, MADRE, or AWID, underscoring the importance of raising the visibility of women's political work. As we all know, suffrage laws in the...

Last week, we heard that Citigroup, like so many other financial companies in peril, is going to raise base salaries by as much as 50 percent in order to discourage the culture of excessive risk-taking in pursuit of big bonuses. Newsflash! Citigroup: there's a foolproof way to shift away from...

Speculation about who would be nominated to replace Supreme Court Justice Souter came to an end last Tuesday with the announcement of Sonia Sotomayor as President Obama's pick to fill the vacancy. For many of us in the women's research and advocacy community, it's a promising choice that hopefully...

Suddenly, it feels like Spring! Supreme Court Justice David Souter is expected to resign as we hold our collective breaths for the appointment of a female legal eagle! President Obama just marked his first 100 days in office looking back on many initiatives aimed at boosting economic security, including his...

On Sunday, an estimated 90 million Americans will gather around their television sets (many of them newly purchased $1,000 flat screens), consume copious amounts of food and drink (more than at any other time of year, other than Thanksgiving), and watch Superbowl XLIII--complete with commercials that run $3 million for...

In little over a week, the Obama transition team has made two nominations that will potentially affect the lives of every woman, man and child on the planet. The proposals of Timothy Geithner as Secretary of the Treasury and of Hillary Rodham Clinton as Secretary of State have generated...

As President-elect Obama meets with his top advisors and begins to build his leadership team for a new administration, we hope he will show a little gender sensitivity and recruit significant numbers of women to key positions. Here is the open letter I wrote that was published in Alternet earlier...

By Linda Basch, PhD

What happened this week is historic. We have elected a new administration, and change is definitely in the air. Our anticipation is great, but we also have many big issues to tackle.

The economic crisis brings particular urgency to the issues foremost on our minds....

By Linda Basch, PhD

With the election only a day away, we asked members of our network based in states like Ohio, Michigan, and Idaho to weigh in on the key issues facing women in their region as they get ready to vote. We asked them to tell us the...

By Linda Basch, Ph.D., President, National Council for Research on Women

If women ran Wall Street, would there have been a financial meltdown?
Maybe not. According to a recent study by Harvard researchers in the
journal of Evolution and Human Behavior, higher levels of testosterone
...

The home-owning middle class was the muse of both presidential candidates in Tuesday's town hall-style debate.

Within minutes of Tom Brokaw's introduction, Senator Barack Obama argued that, "The middle class needs a rescue package. And that means tax cuts for the middle class." Senator John McCain didn't waste any time...