Selecting this particular woman largely based on her stance on one issue is the latest insult not just to Governor Palin, but to women as a whole -- and to our democracy.
Carol Hoenig | Posted 10.01.2008 | Politics
Considering the McCain team's vice-president pick, we women are a shallow people, a people who cannot discern gender from agenda. Apparently this is w...
Jane Smiley | Posted 09.30.2008 | Politics
What Sarah Palin shows is that once again, the right wing is adept at turning the women's movement upside down and offering us a woman who reinforces patriarchal power rather than challenges it.
Van Jones | Posted 09.29.2008 | Politics
None of my pro-Hillary female friends are falling for this obvious GOP pander. John McCain has gone from maverick to "me too" -- trying to out-Democrat the Democrats and pick up some Hillary voters. But it ain't working.
Dr. Irene S. Levine | Posted 09.20.2008 | Living
How do male and female friendships differ from one another?
Philip N. Cohen | Posted 09.13.2008 | Entertainment
During the first decade of her megastarhood, Madonna perfected not only the arts of pop music, bothering feminists, and arousing boys (and girls), but the ability to use feminism to generate controversy.
Marcia Greenberger and Nancy Duff Campbell | Posted 09.06.2008 | Politics
Women are far more pessimistic than men in their attitudes about the status quo. Whether it is the price of food and fuel or disparities in the workplace, they feel the impact more than their male counterparts.
Courtney E. Martin | Posted 08.12.2008 | Politics
Since 2003 Iraq has experienced over 50 suicide bombings carried out by women. It is no longer justifiable for the media to act aghast when another woman turns up with blood on her hands.
Kathleen Reardon | Posted 08.10.2008 | Politics
Bias festers beneath a surface sporadic civility in America that we have all seen break down under pressure of the current election cycle.
Philip N. Cohen | Posted 08.06.2008 | Business
Lots of people work in environments that seem integrated. But these are mostly in the white collar jobs of the professionals and the college educated; the blue-collar world is still a man's world.
Philip N. Cohen | Posted 08.01.2008 | Business
There was a strong trend of occupational desegregation, but the pace of that change slowed markedly in the 1990s.
Marie Wilson | Posted 07.31.2008 | Business
Women have been disproportionately impacted by economic distress: they're the first ones to lose their jobs during cutbacks, and they're the primary caretakers for their families in cash-strapped times.
Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 07.29.2008 | Politics
As a society, we're willing to immunize cheats, liars, war criminals, and law breakers, but prosecute any physician who acknowledges a woman's constitutional right to seek remedy from an unwanted pregnancy.
Philip N. Cohen | Posted 07.27.2008 | Living
The latest news in the opt-out wars comes from two Berkeley economists - Jane Leber Herr and Catherine Wolfram - who report on a study of almost 1,000 Harvard graduates at their 15th reunion. Their main finding is that the profession these women went into had big effects on their odds of remaining employed.
Amy Coen | Posted 07.03.2008 | Living
Boge explained her biggest challenge decades earlier was to convince the first mother that her 'uncut' daughter would have a good life; she would be an acceptable wife, bear children and be healthy.
Lisa Witter | Posted 07.01.2008 | Politics
Is anyone else as appalled as I am at how quickly we have gone back to thinking of women in the oldest of stereotypes -- as only wives and mothers?
Marie Wilson | Posted 06.28.2008 | Media
Visibility is viability, and wouldn't it be great to have Meet the Press, the most prestigious and hard hitting show on the Sunday circuit, feature a woman host?
Marie Wilson | Posted 06.24.2008 | Politics
We lost something for our nation's daughters who were sent a strong message about fairness during the primary season -- you can play, but it won't be a fair fight.
Ilana Goldman | Posted 06.13.2008 | Politics
Dear Hillary - I say this to you almost daily, but since it's normally to you on the TV screen, I thought I should find a way of saying it where you...
Eric Deggans | Posted 06.13.2008 | Media
It remains an enduring legacy of the conservative media machine -- and their own past mistakes -- that a couple so admired by the public has such awful relations with the Fourth Estate.
Stephen Ducat | Posted 06.12.2008 | Green
In the view of conservatives, just as women are there to serve and must know their place, so must the Earth (along with its animals and indigenous inhabitants) be used as a resource that requires no reciprocity.
Melissa Silverstein | Posted 06.11.2008 | Entertainment
Something big is happening and SATC didn't cause it, it just reflects it. Whether or not you are a Hillary fan, there is a gender conversation happening in this country, and women are angry.
Matt Stoller | Posted 06.10.2008 | Politics
These videos are really quite stunning. Rep. Dave Reichert's jokes about Hillary Clinton dying are just the latest in a career of using sexist slurs and innuendo to deny women full equality.
Hilary Rosen | Posted 06.05.2008 | Politics
The personal answer for me is that I am loyal. But I want to focus on trying to translate for my friends, just what it is about this campaign that keeps the enthusiasm of her supporters.
Eric Deggans | Posted 05.29.2008 | Politics
This is how the Clintons could pull the Democratic Party down to general election defeat alongside their fading presidential hopes: a pointless fight over gender politics.
Marie Wilson | Posted 10.03.2008 | Politics