WASHINGTON — The White House and top Democrats, intensifying their push to build support for their party's health overhaul proposals, are increa...
Judy Patrick | Posted 04.13.2009 | Politics
The creation of the White House Council on Women and Girls is deeply significant. By improving the lives of women, we improve the lives of their children, families and communities.
Eve Ensler, Kavita Ramdas and Zainab Salbi | Posted 02.13.2009 | Politics
President-elect Obama, we are calling on you to be the president who ushers in the time of women.
Marjorie Cohn | Posted 01.12.2009 | Politics
Although President Carter signed CEDAW in 1980, the treaty has never been sent to the full U.S. Senate for its advice and consent to ratification.
Linda Basch | Posted 12.15.2008 | Politics
It seems only fitting, after an election with such an unprecedented presence of serious, female power that you would pledge to assemble a more gender-balanced team.
Marie Wilson | Posted 12.07.2008 | Politics
In a campaign whose rallying cry was "change", shifting the status of women in this country by bringing them fully to the tables of power would be a great place to start.
Andrea King Collier | Posted 10.23.2008 | Home
"The way we keep G.O.P. strategists from stealing the election is to get out to vote and make sure that it's not a contested race. We don't want it to be close..."
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 10.20.2008 | Politics
Before the crisis in the housing and financial markets threw the presidential election for a loop, the Obama campaign had planned to spend this week m...
Ertharin Cousin | Posted 10.03.2008 | Politics
It is our responsibility to ensure that we tell our neighbors and friends and women across the country that Barack is the candidate who will fight for women.
NY Times | Posted 09.18.2008 | Politics
As Senator John McCain was acidly questioning Senator Barack Obama's judgment on matters of war and peace at a veterans' convention in Orlando, Mr. Ob...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 08.07.2008 | Politics
Barack Obama's campaign may get a major electoral boon from an organization that was accused of conspiring against him in the primary. Women's Voice...
First Read | Posted 07.18.2008 | Politics
A day after the revelation of Jesse Jackson's crude criticism of Barack Obama's speeches on fatherhood and faith-based initiatives, this morning Miche...
AP | SAM HANANEL | Posted 07.03.2008 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Claire McCaskill, senator from Missouri, is hardly a household name outside her home state. But Barack Obama knows who she is. She...
AP | SARA KUGLER | Posted 07.01.2008 | Politics
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Democrat Barack Obama, determined to win over female voters, talked Monday about the women who helped shape his life in argu...
AP | JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS | Posted 10.09.2009 | Politics