Nancy K. Kaufman

Even though the parades and commemorations for Memorial Day are over, I can't help but think about an issue that impacts women in the Armed Services and that doesn't get much notice. Let's recall that Memorial Day began as a day to memorialize those soldiers who died in the Civil...

On Sunday, I celebrated my first Mother's Day as a grandmother, so the celebration of National Women's Health Week this week has new meaning for me. It means that thanks to the Affordable Care Act (ACA, the 2012 health reform law), my daughter, who gave birth via Caesarian section, cannot...

As Israel celebrates its 64th birthday, many pro-Israel women cannot help but wonder what its founders would say about the uproar over the increasing examples of gender segregation on buses and in certain public spaces. Unlike the U.S. Founding Fathers, Israel's visionary leaders never thought that there would be a...

Rush Limbaugh's vulgar insults directed at Sandra Fluke have been widely and rightly condemned. Her advocacy on behalf of including contraception in standard insurance coverage offered by employers, even those with a religious affiliation, has been defended by many, including President Obama. Limbaugh has lost backing, financial and...

Until this year, the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) was the poster child for bipartisanship. First passed in 1994 under the leadership of then-Senator Joe Biden, it garnered overwhelming support when it was reauthorized in 2000 and again in 2005. Now, however, it too...

The announced theme of the fifty-sixth session of the Commission on the Status of Women taking place in New York from February 27 to March 3 -- the empowerment of rural women and their role in poverty and hunger eradication, development, and current challenges -- isn't focused per...

"How can the 'consent of the governed' be given if the right to vote be denied?" asked Susan B. Anthony, whose birthday we celebrate today. Yet, years after her hard-won gains for women's voting rights, there are a plethora of efforts now underway across the country to make voting harder...

There's a chant that is familiar to anyone who has ever attended a reproductive rights rally -- "Not the church, not the state; Women should decide their fate!" Usually this rallying cry is in defense of a woman's right to choose abortion. Today this chant takes on new relevance when...

Sunday, January 22 marked the 39th anniversary of the landmark Roe v. Wade decision; but, this year's celebration is bittersweet. The victory it represents for women's autonomy and empowerment is tempered by the near-constant assault on its legal viability in the courts, in our state legislatures and in the streets...