FROM THE MAGAZINE
Anything but "Secure"
A federal program designed to deport undocumented immigrants with serious criminal records creates fear that any minor infraction can break up a family. Read more...
Locker Room Secret
A review of Grace and Grit: My Fight for Equal Pay and Fairness at Goodyear and Beyond, by Lilly Ledbetter. Read more...
Blocking the Vote
Is your right to vote safe? Along with the poor and the elderly, women are at especially high risk of being turned away at the polls in November, thanks to new "strict voter-ID" laws. Read more...
If the Clothes Fit: A Feminist Takes on Fashion
Fashion, like so many other things associated primarily with women, may be dismissed as trivial, but it shapes how we?re read by others, especially on the levels of gender, class and race. Read more...
Perp Walk for the Pope?
Barbara Blaine wants the pope to be accountable. In September, Blaine and the Survivor's Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP) helped persuade the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague to investigate the Vatican and Pope Benedict XVI for crimes against humanity.Read more...
Giving Birth to Progress
My mom, Jean, was the strongest and the most amazing woman I've ever known. And I've known a lot of strong and amazing women: Bella Abzug, Coretta Scott King, Shirley Chisholm, Geraldine Ferraro, Barbara Jordan, Eleanor Holmes Norton. Each in her way has been a mentor of mine. Read more...
The Verbal Karate of Florynce R. Kennedy, Esq.
Watching the new HBO documentary Gloria: In Her Own Words left us nostalgic for the early days of Ms., so we went to the Ms. archives and unearthed a feature from the March 1973 issue in which Gloria Steinem pays homage to the "infinitely quotable Flo." Here is the original piece: Read more...
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