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The past, present and future of feminism converged over the weekend in New York City to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the first, and only, federally funded National Women's Conference. More th...

Of course Hillary Clinton is “running as a woman.” As former Colorado Congresswoman Pat Schroeder aptly reminded us when asked the same question during her 1988 presidential bid: “do I have a choice...

For Pinar Ilkkaracan, coming to New York from Istanbul to receive a prestigious human rights award last month was a welcome respite. “You are constantly struggling,” she said of her efforts on behal...

The opinions expressed here are those of the author alone, and not those of the Women’s Media Center. As a 501(c)3 organization, the Women’s Media Center does not endorse or support candidates for e...

Hysterectomy, the second most frequent major operation performed on women in the United States, has long been criticized as being over performed, especially for benign conditions. In the late sixtie...

During the past week, according to an AP report, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has reached out to Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, Madeleine Albright, and others to discuss how to resolve the Arab-Israeli conflict. Meanwhile, a delegation of Palestinian, Israeli, and international women are speaking out in California, New York, and Washington, DC, calling for a new, “consultative approach” to a negotiated agreement.

Two University of Colorado-Boulder women deserve their day in court, a federal appeals court has ruled. Lisa Simpson and Anne Gilmore charged that football recruiting programs sanctioned by the univ...

It seemed like shocking news last week when the telecommunications giant Verizon admitted it has readily allowed national security investigators without warrants to browse customer records on thousa...

We watch now with absolute disbelief as, once more, the courage of the monks and people of Burma are flashed across our television screens. They reject the brutal dictatorship of the junta and call ...

This year marks almost the halfway point in the 15-year time-span set in 2000 for the world to realize eight ambitious targets, the United Nations Millennium Development Goals. Still a millennium aw...

This year’s Nobel Peace Prize, shared between Al Gore and the UN’s climate science panel, is a victory for environmentalism and science. It underscores the gravity of global warming and leaves no sp...

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 ...