The author, editor of the WMC Exclusives, recalls a moment decades ago that encapsulates the power and purpose of the former First Lady, who died last week at the age of 93.

Legal commentator Debbie Hines, formerly a prosecutor in cases of rape and sexual assault, calls on District Attorney Cyrus Vance to continue to pursue the case against Dominique Strauss-Kahn despite any difficulties.

Governor Dan Malloy announced Tuesday that he had signed legislation providing Connecticut employees with paid sick leave. Activist and author Ellen Bravo and State Senator Edith Prague explain why this is a landmark moment for women and their families.

The democratic spirit of the Arab Spring uprisings is alive and well in the determination of women protesters in Iraq, who are seeing their rights slip away under the current administration.

New legislation is before the New York State legislature that would transform sentencing rules for those convicted of violent crimes against their abusers.

The author, a doctoral candidate at CUNY Graduate Center whose research centers on gender and wealth, writes about the hit women are taking in mortgage foreclosures

Members of the Nobel Women's Initiative are marshaling their collective wisdom and experience to tackle the challenge of ending rape as a weapon of war.

The women who launched the fight for women's advancement at the New York Times enjoy the moment.

In what singer-songwriter Billy Bragg calls their "anarchist variety act," the Topp Twins expand their loyal following beyond New Zealand's borders.

The country may be emerging slowly from fiscal crisis, but Elayne Clift writes that there is no end to moral bankruptcy in the United States.

College students are graduating this year with record debt, and women, who constitute most of the graduates, struggle for financial independence.

Israeli journalist Merav Michaeli explains why a Brooklyn newspaper recently removed Hillary Clinton from a famous photograph: another case of Photoshop in service to the patriarchy.

WMC Cofounder Robin Morgan on surrealism and sexual predators.

Award winning author and creator of WMC's "Hot Button Words" series Rosalie Maggio recalls the journalist and activist who alerted the modern women's movement to the dangers of sexist language.

Iranian-American writer Noushin Darya Framke: it's time to move on from the "war on terror."