The National Organization for Women is getting behind the candidacy of Connie Saltonstall, a Democrat challenging Rep. Bart Stupak (Mich.) in a primar...
AP | MICHAEL GORMLEY and VALERIE BAUMAN | Posted 03.03.2010 | New York
ALBANY, N.Y. — An unfolding scandal threatening Gov. David Paterson and his administration claimed its second public safety official Tuesday whe...
Politico | ANDY BARR | Posted 01.29.2010 | Politics
The National Organization for Women is firing back at former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, who blasted the group earlier this week for calling on CBS to pu...
Annabelle Gurwitch | Posted 03.18.2010 | Politics
The Bo-Tax is being touted as a way to help solve the health care budget crisis, presumably because a very small percentage of cosmetic procedures are covered under some insurance plans (unfortunately, not mine).
Kamala Lopez | Posted 11.25.2009 | Politics
Simply put -- are women, should women be equal or not? Not implicitly equal. Not equal in New York state but not so much in Georgia. Not equal in every area as compared to men. Just equal, plain and simple?
Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 11.17.2009 | Entertainment
A new documentary examines the various facets of human trafficking. The film, four years in the making, follows the stories of five people -- three women and two men.
Joel B. Schwartzberg | Posted 11.11.2009 | World
OW on PBS host David Brancaccio interviews Rwandan President Paul Kagame about why he believes universal health care in Rwanda is crucial for the country's social, political, and economic advancement.
Wall Street Journal | FAWN JOHNSON and LAURA MECKLER | Posted 09.27.2009 | Politics
Most versions of the Democratic health plan would create subsidies for lower-income people to buy private health insurance. If that insurance includes...
Dr. Susan Corso | Posted 07.30.2009 | Living
I am appalled at the coverage of Governor Mark Sanford's infidelity to his wife and sons. I am appalled at the moral posturing. I am appalled that we think we have the right.
Amy Siskind | Posted 07.29.2009 | Politics
In 2008 we reached a nadir. For Wall Street it was the collapse of Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers. For the women's movement, it was the sexist treatment of Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin.
Joel B. Schwartzberg | Posted 07.23.2009 | Media
What would you do if -- as a college-educated young mother -- you lost your job, had debt collectors calling you incessantly, and were just evicted from your home?
Patricia Ireland | Posted 07.17.2009 | Politics
Only one of the leaders vying to become the new NOW president is running on the promise of restoring NOW's prominence and rebuilding NOW's activism.
Shannyn Moore | Posted 07.15.2009 | Politics
The Palin children have been fodder for comedians since they were brought to the national stage -- I exhausted the top 10 list before I ran out of outrageous instances previously ignored by the Palins.
Dr. Susan Corso | Posted 07.10.2009 | Living
I don't know about you, but I've had enough of "like." So where does this linguistic fixation with "like" come from?
HuffingtonPost.com | Jeff Muskus | Posted 07.06.2009 | Politics
Unable to turn the public against sex, the pro-life movement will be on the march Saturday trying to convince women that birth-control pills will kill...
Lisa Guest | Posted 07.05.2009 | Living
My life has been one sacrifice after another. It would have been simpler to lower my ideals, to set my sights on something easier, more mainstream. I couldn't do that.
Ted Johnson, Maegan Carberry, Teresa Valdez Klein | Posted 06.06.2009 | Media
With Supreme Court buzz dominating DC, gender issues are suddenly back in style despite the President's recent declaration that protecting abortion rights was not a high priority on his agenda.
Maria Hinojosa | Posted 05.28.2009 | Politics
There is an underreported backlog in the processing of rape kits which is delaying and sometimes denying justice for tens of thousands of American women.
Pius Kamau | Posted 05.08.2009 | Politics
As armies of men all across this world aim their guns and sharp knives, having declared war on girls and women, the Western feminist movement seems to slip deeper into a strange torpor.
Maria Hinojosa | Posted 03.20.2009 | Media
The response to my latest NOW on PBS report -- about sexual harassment of teenage girls in the workplace, airing this Friday -- has been like no other.
Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 03.16.2009 | Media
To me, the key to the Fem2.0 conference on February 2 was to mashup, interact, and expand the dialogue.
Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 01.04.2009 | Politics
The conversation on who would replace Hillary Clinton in the U.S. Senate was ratcheted up a notch on Thursday (12/4). The National Organization for W...
Beth Dozoretz | Posted 12.07.2008 | Politics
NOW is insisting that the mistake Summers made four years ago should disqualify him from Treasury Secretary. I strenuously disagree.
HuffingtonPost.com | Seth Colter Walls | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics
Since Barack Obama has signaled that his transition team will move quickly, it shouldn't come as a surprise that advocacy organizations are acting jus...
Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 12.04.2008 | Politics
More women have entered into the political fray, successfully gotten into the pipeline, and may now be poised for victory.
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 03.17.2010 | Politics