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March 15, 2010 – 11:00 am
Better paying jobs aren’t enough to ensure women’s economic stability, according to a new study. For black women and Latinas in particular, a focus on bridging the “wealth gap” rather than the pay gap may make the most sense.
New research from Insight Center for Community Economic Development reveals disturbing data about a widening wealth gap [...]
March 12, 2010 – 10:22 am
Women have been stymied for years in efforts to achieve U.S. ratification of CEDAW, the UN treaty to eliminate discrimination against women. Now, meeting at the UN, U.S. women hope to regain influence in establishing rights for women around the world.
The theme of the 54th session of the United Nations Commission on the Status [...]
By Maxine Lowy
Michelle Bachelet’s presidency comes to a tumultuous end less than two weeks after her country withstood an 8.8 magnitude earthquake. Here, the author assesses what her term in office has meant for women in Chile and what lies ahead.
The massive earthquake that struck Chile before dawn February 27 prompted the government to declare [...]
By Mary Kay Blakely
As the world recognizes International Women’s Day, essayist Mary Kay Blakely assesses the contribution of women’s media, not the least of which may well be charting a path to a healthy journalism that serves the public good.
Everyone I know is alarmed by the disappearance of city newspapers and the retreat [...]
By Siobhan “Sam” Bennett
Women leaders have shown they know how to work together, whether it’s in the public or private sector. Women’s Campaign Forum President Sam Bennett describes a new initiative to put enough women in office this year to overcome the political impasse plaguing our nation’s lawmakers.
I know I’m not the only one [...]
By Marianne Schnall
Former Presidents Jimmy Carter and Mary Robinson say women and girls are the victims of dangerous practices too often justified in the name of religion and tradition. They are members of a prestigious international group that is spotlighting the issue.
Violence against women and girls is an international epidemic. According to the United Nations, [...]
By Melissa Silverstein
Women & Hollywood’s blogger here assesses the implications of a historic win for Kathryn Bigelow.
In less than one week, March 7 to be exact, the Hollywood awards season will be over, and chances are very good that for the first time a woman—Kathryn Bigelow—will have won the best director Oscar for [...]
February 25, 2010 – 9:42 am
By Megan Carpentier
Obama meets with Republicans today in a health-care summit. Women who helped put him in office expect him to step up and lead—on both access to quality care and access to abortion.
When House Speaker Nancy Pelosi allowed Bart Stupak’s anti-abortion amendment to the health care reform bill to come to a vote in [...]
February 24, 2010 – 10:30 am
By Angela Bonavoglia
At a “first-ever” conference on what they hope is a growing field, surgeons showed an appalling indifference to how women experience sexual pleasure.
Some 150 gynecologists, urogynecologists and plastic surgeons met last month to observe, in bloody still shots and loops of video, the signature ways that the fathers of vaginal cosmetic surgery—and they’re [...]
February 22, 2010 – 9:39 am
By Sharmeen Gangat
As a Pakistani American, the author has come to understand Benazir Bhutto over the years in different contexts. So she was surprised to discover fresh insights in a new documentary about the slain charismatic leader.
I was already of several minds about Benazir Bhutto, the first woman in the world to have led a [...]
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