There is still a false idea out there that feminists back every woman, regardless of how she behaves. Let's leave that behind right along with 2006. In fact, feminism is just the belief that all p...

With Republican control of Congress hanging in the balance, this is a critical election year—and young women voters (YWVs) could be the deciding factor. Midterm elections traditionally suffer from l...

Good journalists have long used personal stories, integrating quotes and anecdotes into factual reporting. But the birth of the second wave of feminism—and the recognition that the personal is polit...

If you want to connect with the 15 to 30 year old crowd, you’d better start inhabiting their world—the virtual one of MySpace, Facebook and Friendster, YouTube, and too many blogs to name.  Each is ...

Tonight I join Kerry Washington, Kathy Bates, Marcia Gay Harden, Marian Seldes, and Shiva Rose at New York’s Studio 54 to open a festival that will bring the issue of violence against women front an...

Betty Friedan died Saturday, February 4, 2006. It was her 85th birthday. Now, after almost three decades of friendship, I find it surreal: writing this remembrance and not a birthday greeting. The s...