According to Sheryl Sandberg, there are too few female role models in business. But she and her colleagues at Google are working to change that. Sandberg, a graduate of Harvard Business School, is...

Against a backdrop of scandal and corruption, U.S. voters turned against the party in power on Tuesday. This time, the hypocrisy of self-declared family-values politicians who would protect colleagu...

While most of the country was focused on the election aftermath, former U.S. soldier Steven D. Green was quietly arraigned today at a U.S. courthouse in Louisville, Kentucky, three blocks from the Show n’ Tell Lounge advertising “girls, girls, girls.”

Last month, the world awoke to the announcement that Muhammad Yunus, founder of the world renowned Grameen Bank, was awarded the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize. Globally, as champions of the microenterprise...

On the day before they head to the polls to determine whether to let stand a state law that bans virtually all abortions, South Dakotans, in newspapers throughout the state, are being asked to recon...

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...

Three years into the Iraq War, the American public is making next week’s election a national referendum on the policies that got us there and seem to offer no end in sight. In a democratic culture w...

People are trying to take your community while you are sleeping. -Sharon Hanshaw Sharon Hanshaw was out of town when Hurricane Katrina hit her lifelong home of Biloxi, Mississippi. She returned t...

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...

In response to a stepped up, aggressive campaign by anti-choice forces in South Dakota, pro-choice advocates are fighting hard to insure victory against the most complete ban on abortion passed anyw...

In four separate TV spots Republican Sen. Jim Talent of Missouri falsely attributes several unflattering quotes about his opponent to the Kansas City Star. Our examination reveals that the quotes ac...

España [f.] nosotras, las ciudades (Spain [f.], We, the Cities) is an exuberant celebration of Spain’s cities through the voices of her women. It is Spain’s contribution to Venice’s 10th Internation...

Amy Berg’s riveting documentary, Deliver Us From Evil, makes it abundantly clear how deeply the clergy sex abuse scandal in the Catholic Church has wounded women. By focusing on two women victims an...

With Joan Blades “there’s no down, you just keep going up and up,” said Carol Jenkins, Women’s Media Center president, introducing the pioneering social activist at a recent WMC journalists’ lunch. ...

As sexually explicit and highly inappropriate exchanges between Congressman Mark Foley (R-FL) and a congressional page occupied the headlines last week, the Republican’s “do as I say, not as I do” h...