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Gender Is Key to the Bullying Culture
To reduce bullying and its deadly consequences, argues Jessie Klein, author of the "Bully Society," schools must make the gender connection.
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State Legislators Grab Platform to Defend Contraception
With a mix of humor and dead seriousness, women in state legislatures act to force their male colleagues to understand what's at stake in restricting contraception and choice.
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Expanding Health Care Access—A Case Study
While many legislators seem intent on narrowing women's access to affordable care, individuals and foundations still work to expand it. Such is the mission of Dana Dornsife.
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March 17, 2012
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Lewd, Hateful Language Should Have No Place in Campus Debate
An anticipated commencement address set off a rhetorical firestorm that sickened the author, a Barnard undergrad who calls for action by her campus community.
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Men for Women’s Choice
On the issue of contraceptives and choice, most men quoted and pictured in the media recently have opposed women controlling their reproductive health. The authors plan to change that.
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Much to Celebrate
Today is International Women's Day. Christine Ahn and the Global Fund for Women mark the occasion by recalling substantial wins for women in 2011.
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State-Sanctioned Shaming and the Battle for Reproductive Rights
Contraception and choice are simply an everyday imperative for the author and her peers, despite the hostility that remains a part of the national culture.
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Giving Women’s History a Home
Perhaps this year’s Women’s History Month will mark the success of a push for a National Women's History Museum, a campaign that has built up an impressive history of its own.
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March 01, 2012 | Ariel Dougherty |
Politics
Electoral Advertising is a Women’s Media Policy Nightmare
The author, who directs Media Equity Collaborative, demonstrates why super PACs and the corporate media controlling the airways pose a threat to fair media treatment for women.
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Girls Get Called “Slut” Everyday—They Could Be Making Friends Instead
Jessie Klein, author of "The Bully Society," writes that girls need help in building trusting relationships.
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Date Rape Revisited
Twenty-five years after an historic campus study, why are colleges still struggling to deal with the problem?
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Oscar and the Usual Suspects
Women's absence from Best Director nominees only reflects the industry's dismal hiring statistics, as demonstrated in the author's annual Celluloid Ceiling study.
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Bahrain Medics Still at Risk
On the one-year anniversary of the uprising in Bahrain, a lawyer continues her fight for medics arrested and tortured for treating protestors injured by police—in demonstrations where women have played a key role.
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Birth Control and the Bloviators: What Just Happened?
The author of "Good Catholic Girls: How Women Are Leading the Fight to Change the Church" explains what's behind the Catholic bishops' hard-line reaction to President Obama's compromise.
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A Feminist Film Festival With a Different Take
The Athena Film Festival, opening in its second year this week at Barnard College, is designed to advance a national conversation on women and leadership, as its cofounder Melissa Silverstein explains.
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Hillary Clinton Launches Public Service Initiative
Working with the nation’s top women’s liberal arts colleges, Secretary of State Clinton hopes to harness the potential of women around the world to strengthen leadership in both government and civil society.
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February 04, 2012 | Ellen Sweet |
Health
Komen vs. Planned Parenthood—What’s Going On?
Immediate outrage in the social media greeted the Komen foundation after it defunded breast cancer screening by Planned Parenthood. Ellen Sweet explores what’s behind its puzzling turn-about.
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Could DSM-5 Be Harmful to Your Mental Health?
The APA diagnostic manual revision process, in the news recently over the definition of autism, holds other potential threats for women’s health. Elayne Clift investigates the gender issues in DSM-5.
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Electoral Advertising is a Women’s Media Policy Nightmare
The author, who directs Media Equity Collaborative, demonstrates why super PACs and the corporations controlling the airways pose a threat to fair media treatment for women.
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Exclusive: U.S. Acts on Women, Peace and Security
A new action plan opens far-reaching possibilities to improve the security of women and the world. With some caution, women’s peace advocates plan to monitor its implementation.
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January 26, 2012 | Suzanne Lacy |
Violence against women
Three Weeks in January: End Rape in Los Angeles
Artist Suzanne Lacy has recreated aspects of her landmark performance art piece, “Three Weeks in May,” with an installation that focuses on Los Angeles today, decades into the anti-rape movement, and features a candlelight ceremony on January 27.
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Letting Girls Be Girls—A Global Campaign
This week in Davos, Switzerland, the World Economic Forum will highlight a drive by The Elders to end the practice of child marriage.
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January 23, 2012 | Robin Morgan |
Religion
Faith-healing: A Modest Proposal on Religious Fundamentalism
Author and WMC Co-founder Robin Morgan struggles to understand the faith-based madness that seems to surround us.
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January 20, 2012 | Hoda Elsadda |
International
Egypt—The Revolution Will Continue
January 25 marks the anniversary of the onset of protests in Cairo’s Tahrir Square. Here, Hoda Elsadda, an Egyptian women’s rights activist and professor at Cairo University, assesses women’s gains, potential losses and determination to move forward—as evidenced by last month’s 10,000-woman strong protest march.