On Friday, I joined PBS's To the Contrary to talk about the shortage of women in elected office. The segment revolved around She Should Run (SSR), a bipartisan, non-profit dedicated to "dramatically increasing" the number of women in elected office.
While the conversation was limited to...
15 Comments | Posted February 13, 2012 | 4:36 PM
Call me old-fashioned, but when a man gets down on his knee and talks about building a life together, I expect to hear the words, "Will you marry me?" at the end of the sentence.
That's why I found myself genuinely confused last week while watching the ABC hit-drama...
7 Comments | Posted January 30, 2012 | 2:03 PM
While much of the radical feminism of the 1960s and '70s has fallen by the wayside, some dangerous flotsam and jetsam trail in its wake -- namely, a robust effort to muzzle imaginative play for girls.
This is the message behind a new, anti-Disney princess picture making the rounds...
0 Comments | Posted January 18, 2012 | 2:20 PM
April marks the 40th anniversary of Title IX, legislation passed to ensure educational institutions do not discriminate on the basis of gender. That's why the American Association of University Women recently held a "Tweet-Up" with Education Secretary Arne Duncan.
Four decades after the...

0 Comments | Posted March 21, 2012 | 1:20 PM