When speaking to Americans, Yanar Mohammed is confronted repeatedly with the belief that Iraqi women’s rights are protected under occupation by the United States. In reality, says Mohammed, director...
Older women writers are often at the height of their creative abilities, but for us to appreciate their work, we need to have access to it.
Our youth-oriented society fails to validate, much less ...
Robin Morgan and Anna Quindlen discuss the media, politics and change. Excerpted below, this conversation is the beginning of a series of conversations sponsored by the Women’s Media Center.
[The] partial birth abortion ban is a political scam but a public relations goldmine... The major benefit is the debate that surrounds it. —Randall Terry
Ruth Bader Ginzburg’s Dissent As Linda ...
In just one year of obfuscation and several apparent lies to a judge, defense attorneys and the public in a single case, a North Carolina prosecutor has undermined decades of progress toward justice...
Periodically, some new wound rips the scab off our national, livid scar where sex and race intersect: the young law professor, Anita Hill, shaming Congress by her dignity and inspiring women with he...
The Reverend Al Sharpton, a key point man on the successful campaign against Don Imus this week, gave clear signals that this was the beginning rather than the end of the war.
Long searching for a...
Kathleen Rogers, the clear, straight-talking, passionate head of the Earth Day Network (EDN), was emphatic: "No, there aren’t enough women in environmental leadership roles." Citing our global clima...
C. Vivian Stringer, the coach of the Imus-defamed college basketball team, got it exactly right this morning on the CBS Early Show, calling her young women an “instrument of change.” As the story de...
“Mr. Imus has stolen a moment of pure grace from us.”
Rutgers’ team leader Essence Carson, who said she and her team were “highly angered… and deeply saddened” by Don Imus’ remarks, said that the ...
Most women think cardiovascular disease is a “man’s disease.” Wrong.
Coronary heart disease caused one in six female deaths in 2004 compared to one in 30 from breast cancer, says the American Hear...
That's some rough girls from Rutgers," Imus said. "Man, they got tattoos . . . "
"Some hardcore hos," McGuirk said.
"That's some nappy-headed hos there, I'm going to tell you that," Imus said.
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It’s the Super Bowl of women’s sports this week in Cleveland, Ohio: the NCAA Women’s Final Four is in town after years of planning. Even security guards at the sold-out Quicken Loans arena marvel at...
In the years following World War II, we are in what legal scholar Eric Yamamoto has called a global “Age of Reparations.” Yet reparations claims and settlements have until recently ignored harms uniquely experienced by women.