Had Elizabeth Lambert been a male soccer player and yanked an opponent's ponytail, she would have gotten a high-five from his teammates. But when a woman behaves like a boorish man, it becomes a big deal.
Deborah Plummer | Posted 12.06.2009 | Media
In Cleveland, the Call & Post recently depicted Ohio State Senator Turner as Aunt Jemima. There should be no confusion that Aunt Jemima is a derogatory, demeaning label of racism and sexism.
Amelia Gray | Posted 11.30.2009 | Books
Assumptions that the Publishers Weekly Top 10 Books of 2009 emerged from the hazy cigar smoke of an old boys' club are likely misguided.
Scott Mendelson | Posted 11.24.2009 | Entertainment
What is worth noting is that all of these male characters are basically users and abusers of their friends, family, and lovers. Yet Bella is attacked in various circles because she allows herself to be abused and used.
Amy Siskind | Posted 11.20.2009 | Politics
One thing is certain about our Palin Hate Affair: the biggest winner will be Sarah Palin.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.19.2009 | Media
On the matter of Sarah Palin's Newsweekcover, the Washington City Paper's Amanda Hess has basically won the entire discussion.
Taylor Marsh | Posted 11.18.2009 | Media
Newsweek seems bent on destroying a prominent Republican political star, not on the basis of her politics, but by depicting her as a sex symbol.
Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner | Posted 11.19.2009 | Living
The message is: Women, you, and your fight for equality, are responsible for your own unhappiness. It's a Half-Lash: The backlash from women becoming half of the paid labor force.
Catie Lazarus | Posted 11.18.2009 | Comedy
My lady sensibility is limited to menstruation (hilarious), babies (adorable), and unicorns mating (adorably hilarious).
Chelsea-Lyn Rudder | Posted 11.10.2009 | World
On October 22nd a Brazilian college student -- wearing a short, hot pink dress -- attracted more attention than she bargained for when she made a trip to the restroom, and a spontaneous student protest erupted.
Catie Lazarus | Posted 10.30.2009 | Entertainment
The Good Wife deftly hints at how even the most well meaning of us, men and women, aren't always well doing.
Vivian Norris de Montaigu | Posted 10.24.2009 | Business
The reality is that, even if you are a female executive at Goldman Sachs, you will never be part of the "boys' club" -- and guess what, it's still a boys' club.
The Huffington Post | Erica Jong | Posted 10.20.2009 | Books
We have known that women could write since Sappho invented love poetry 2600 years ago. Emily Dickinson, Charlotte Bronte, Jane Austen, George Eliot co...
Reese Schonfeld | Posted 10.19.2009 | Media
I am associated with the Culture Change Institute, a Tufts based group founded by Sam Huntington and Larry Harrison, which examines various cultures r...
Jesse Kornbluth | Posted 10.19.2009 | Media
Does "The Shriver Report: A Woman's Nation Changes Everything," instigated by Maria Shriver, describe a 50/50 nation? Parity between the sexes? I don't think so.
BJ Gallagher | Posted 10.16.2009 | Living
I sometimes wonder whether the diversity movement isn't just the latest manifestation of our national schizophrenia - the schism between what we believe as idealists and what we do as realists.
Joyce McFadden | Posted 10.08.2009 | Media
While reading Barbara Berg's Sexism in America: Alive, Well, and Ruining our Future, I felt energized and eager to be a part of this third wave of feminism.
Dawn Teo | Posted 10.08.2009 | Politics
Dozens of local mothers descended on the office of Republican Senator Jon Kyl of Arizona Wednesday to denounce what they say are sexist attitudes held by Kyl and the Republican Party in general.
Robert Fuller | Posted 10.07.2009 | Living
We won't be able to confront rankism until we overcome our fear of seeming uppity by using the word in public.
Robert Fuller | Posted 10.06.2009 | Living
When strangers ply us with questions like "And you are?", "Who are you with?", or "Where did you go to school?" they are likely sizing up our power as belied by our affiliations.
Janet Turley | Posted 11.29.2009 | Media
The Polanski case is not about justice -- that happened years ago. It's about not retraumatizing the survivor. The prosecution should respect her wishes to drop the case.
Nina Burleigh | Posted 11.28.2009 | Entertainment
Great Men - and other men - sometimes do find pliant, young flesh irresistible. Geniuses are usually forgiven for it. The arrest of Roman Polanski is a good idea, and should stand. It doesn't matter whether he is a genius.
Jane Shure | Posted 11.22.2009 | Living
I've heard so many fabulous women express being afraid to claim their smarts and talents because of fear of being deemed "uppity" or "conceited."
Joyce McFadden | Posted 11.11.2009 | Living
Women shouldn't impose strictures on other women's individuality and choice when we wouldn't want that from men.
The Independent | By Robert Verkaik | Posted 10.22.2009 | Home
Women working in banks and other financial institutions told the EHRC that workers who become pregnant routinely face redundancy, and that recruitment...
Michael Kimmel | Posted 12.10.2009 | Entertainment