“The presence of U.S. troops on Philippine soil has always been particularly devastating to women.” This is one of the baldly stated findings of the Women’s Human Rights Delegation to the Philippine...

Last fall, I’d been noticing a lack of female voices in what are supposed to be general-interest—and presumably gender-neutral—magazines. I wanted to find out if men were consistently getting publis...

The life stories of Jessica Brakey and Abeer Al-Janabi unfold a half a world apart. Yet the former Air Force Academy cadet and the dead Iraqi girl are both powerful symbols of women’s experience of sexual assault. The legal tales of both are curiously juxtaposed this fall in the military’s sprawling criminal justice system.

With a career spanning more than four decades, there is nothing Charlayne Hunter-Gault “hasn’t done, covered, said, influenced,” said Women’s Media Center President Carol Jenkins, introducing the ve...

Do you gnash your teeth, shout at your TV set, feel yourself wearying from the dogged assaults of our homegrown American Taliban? After all, news items like the following have now become commonpla...

The photos from Abu Ghraib—exposing such a range of sexualized violence and abuse—shocked most people in the United States and around the world. Under the radar screen, in this week’s Congressional ...

Despite pools of ink spilled about Pope Benedict XVI’s recent remarks quoting a 14th Century Byzantine emperor who attributed to Muhammad “things evil and inhuman,” like spreading the faith “by the ...

In the race for New Mexico's 1st Congressional District, both candidates have gleaming records to brandish at a bounty of swing voters. But so far, those voters don't have much more than mud to go o...

This week marks an annual fall ritual, the parade of new TV shows each hoping to become the next big hit.  Perhaps because women haven’t had the opportunities men have to create shows, TV, like the ...

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 ...

Abu Ghraib. Haditha. Guantanamo. These are words that shame our country. Now, add to them Mahmudiya, a town 20 miles south of Baghdad. There, this March, a group of five American soldiers allegedly ...

When the 61st session of the United Nations General Assembly opens this week, its new president, Sheikha Haya Rashed Al Khalifa, will have her hands full. The Bahrain lawyer and first woman in decad...

Be cynical if you like, but this was one newscast that I would not miss—because it was the one I thought I’d never see in my lifetime. When Katie Couric debuted on the CBS network news, I was ther...

Two young girls lost. The name of one, Jon Benet Ramsey, is etched in the collective U.S. consciousness. The other, Abeer Qassim Hamza al-Janabi, barely registers—if it registers at all.

“Is there any way that we can stop this?” Regan Hofmann asked the Creative Director of POZ magazine the night before its April edition went to press. With the April issue, Hofmann officially came ou...