Hours into viewing the live webcast September 25 of the House Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection hearing, “From Imus to Industry: The Business of Stereotypes and Degrading Image...

Pinky Bhutto—Benazir’s school nickname in Karachi—is coming back. Will she become prime minister of Pakistan a third time? Will three be the lucky number allowing her to complete a full term? Will a...

One thing that definitely hasn’t changed since Anita Hill accused Clarence Thomas of sexual harassment during the October 1991 hearings that confirmed his seat on the Supreme Court: Thomas is still ...

Consider these two images from recent news events: 20,000 monks marching past Burmese Nobel Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi’s home to protest the democracy leader’s 11-year house arrest and the country’s ...

To celebrate the 20th anniversary of its founding, the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C., is mounting a Festival of Women’s Film and Media Arts this week, with filmmakers from...

I watched as much of Hillary Clinton as I could yesterday—it was almost an all day affair. In a well orchestrated media blitz, the Clinton campaign managed to squeeze in lengthy interviews on all fi...

It is always stunning to me to realize that an event that still lives in my contemporary memory actually took place decades ago; so when I was invited to a 35th anniversary celebration for Ms. Magaz...

Along with most people in this country, you probably haven't noticed that the U.S. women's national soccer team, ranked number one in the world by FIFA (soccer's governing body), is off in China com...

Last night at the Emmy Awards, Sally Field, in accepting her honor for best performance in a dramatic series, gave the best performance as a real-life thinking mother who found herself in the privil...

“Somebody call the twelve-year old!” cried my mother as the screen on the boxy home computer I was using to write my first high school term paper went inexplicably dark. I was ready to pound the off...

Yes, this slight, shy girl talking with me in the schoolyard killed four people. The rebel soldiers had given her the dictum so many warrior Ugandan children live under: “Kill, or we will kill you.” She tells her story in a rapid-fire, hushed monotone—as if rushing to deliver a memorized passage from a tale too awful to really think about. And that it is. She is only now 16 years old: as an 11-year-old soldier she killed grown men. I don’t give her name because life is still too dangerous for her. Abducted from her school by the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) as a small child, she is now rebuilding her life in northern Uganda—a student at a boarding school for girls in Kitgum, near the Sudanese border. In the run of her life, she managed to escape from the brutality of the rebel army only to return to her village to find her parents dead.

When Karl Rove took repeated swipes at New York Senator Hillary Clinton last month, she seemed to savor the attack as recognition of her front-runner status. She played with it and got laughs with a...

The brutal killings of 400 women began mysteriously in 1993 and continued until about 2005. Or so we thought. In early 2007, National Public Radio’s Lourdes Garcia-Navarro found still more recent ...

First the factual stuff—Because some people care about that sort of thing, she would have said, So a person should try to act polite even if they’re a writer maybe especially if and even though fact...

It was inevitable that Senator Barack Obama would be asked the usual, much ballyhooed question at his appearance earlier this month before the National Association for Black Journalists conference a...

He announced in Tagalo: “This is serious. You are with the Taliban.” The roomful of people at the airport in Manila glanced at us askance. I wished that the Taliban would discover the Philippines gove...

How do we attach a value to the priceless? As veteran environmentalist Paula DiPerna has written, in approaching the issue of climate change, "the elemental task is to assign measurable value, while...

During the long days of the rape and murder court-martial of Sgt. Jesse Spielman at Fort Campbell where I was reporting a story for the Women’s Media Center website—I was struck by the language I was hearing and the apparent meaning of the words.

Remember the excuse about not being prepared for class? “I’m sorry teacher, the dog ate my homework.” The tally of Democratic votes that extended the power to engage in surveillance without warr...

A third soldier, Private Jesse Spielman, 23, was sentenced Saturday night to 110 years in prison after being convicted Friday of the rape and murder of 14-year-old Abeer Qassim Rasheed Al-Janabi. However, like Sergeant Paul Cortez and Specialist James Barker, who were also convicted in the case, Spielman will, says the Associated Press, be eligible for parole after only 10 years in prison.

The children of the troops serving in Iraq are experiencing significant collateral damage at home, according to two staggering new reports on the occurrence of child maltreatment, neglect, and abuse...

According to testimony at his court-martial, which began Monday at Fort Campbell, Private Jesse Spielman went with Sergeant Paul Cortez, Specialist James Barker and Private Steven Green on March 12, 2006, to the home of the Al-Janabi family in a village south of Baghdad. He watched while they raped 14-year-old Abeer Qassim Rasheed Al-Janabi and murdered her and her family.

If you get your news from, well, the news media, you can be forgiven if you didn’t know that nearly 800 women gathered in Chicago last weekend for the third annual convention of BlogHer, an online c...

When, 35 years ago this past June, Richard Nixon signed into law the Educational Amendments of 1972, no one paid much attention to a short section on gender equity that has become popularly known as...

One late evening earlier this month in New York’s Central Park, Mia Farrow sat on the stage of the Delacorte amphitheater, her trademark blond hair loose to her shoulders on either side of her face....