When, 35 years ago this past June, Richard Nixon signed into law the Educational Amendments of 1972, no one paid much attention to a short section on gender equity that has become popularly known as...
One late evening earlier this month in New York’s Central Park, Mia Farrow sat on the stage of the Delacorte amphitheater, her trademark blond hair loose to her shoulders on either side of her face....
The largest ever demonstration for the rights of women in the United States took place the spring of 2004 when slightly over a million people marched in Washington, D.C. This spring women’s rights s...
In a recent article and a follow-up blog on women’s work patterns, two Washington Post writers cling to the traditional media framing of the difficult options facing a mother as being within the rea...
With concern over climate change, the sun promises a clean and renewable energy source, which those of us in rich countries often associate with expensive photovoltaic panels for generating electric...
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Houma women feel they must be the strong ones. I had to tell people they had a right to feel bad. —Brenda Dardar Robichaux, principal chief of the United Houma Nation and founder of the Un...
Some women displaced by Hurricane Katrina have had to choose between finding basic shelter and guarding their personal safety.
Of the estimated 142,000 New Orleans apartments or houses destroyed b...
. . . to the Young Man on the Plane from Los Angeles to Seattle who said of the movie that most passengers—male and female—voted to watch, “I don’t watch chick flicks!”
So what exactly is a “chick...
Bushra Jamil, co-founder of Radio Al Mahaba, the first and only independent women’s radio station in the Middle East, has questions. Lots of them.
“Why on earth would America come in and get rid o...
I remember like it was yesterday. Every time I would act out one of my mischievous schemes, my mother and father would quickly remind me of their sacrifice. “We came here with two suitcases—that’s i...