Gender Inequality

Working Women Paid $1.2M Less Than Men Over Lifetime

Posted 11.30.2009 | Impact


Think the glass ceiling for working women in the U.S. is a thing of the past? Not according to some recent statistics by Mother Jones. If you are shoc...

Creating Gender Equality In The 21st Century

Susan Smalley, Ph.D. | Posted 11.06.2009 | Living


Susan Smalley, Ph.D.

Nichlas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn's recent book "Half the Sky" is a call of awakening for all men and women to take action and right the wrongs existing in the world today because of gender inequality.

Who Needs Marriage?

Philip N. Cohen | Posted 11.04.2009 | Living


Philip N. Cohen

Sociologists have long considered suicide to be the gold standard measure of psychological wellbeing. Now we have a long-term study that finds that marriage protects men more than women from themselves.

Half The Sky: Fighting Gender Violence

The New York Review of Books | Sue M. Halpern | Posted 11.20.2009 | Books


Breaking a Conspiracy of Silence Sue Halpern The New York Review of Books Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide by N...

No Slacks In The Office: Gail Collins And Lesley Stahl Relive the Birth of Feminism

wowOwow | Posted 10.21.2009 | Living


With the release of When Everything Changed, Gail Collins's new book, Lesley and Gail recount the amazing revolution of American women from 1960 to th...

Women: We Are Still The Out Crowd

Leslie Grossman | Posted 10.19.2009 | Living


Leslie Grossman

Recent headlines remind me again that things are far from equal in the power suites of America. What's worse is so many men are not even aware of what they say or what they do publicly to exclude women.

Workplace Bullying: Are Women Their Own Worst Enemies?

Abby L. Ferber | Posted 06.15.2009 | Business


Abby L. Ferber

Assumptions about gender end up distorting the reality of bullying in the workplace, all too often suggesting that women themselves are undermining feminism's goal of advancement for women.

Afghan Women's Situation a Test Case for Obama Administration's Foreign Assistance Policy

Ritu Sharma | Posted 06.14.2009 | World


Ritu Sharma

While our focus is on the war on terror, we have yet to figure out how economic development, which is the crying need of Afghanistan, fits into our engagement in that country.