Sex Week Arouses Conservative Ire
September 3, 2010 by Carmen Siering · 3 Comments
President Obama’s first budget proposal in 2009 redirected millions of dollars of federal funds from abstinence-only sex education programs to comprehensive sex ed. Unfortunately, many students ...Read More
Senator Alan Kooi Simpson Steps in a Cow Pie
September 2, 2010 by Susan Rubin · 4 Comments
Former Republican Sen. Alan Simpson recently stated that Social Security is becoming “a cow with 310 million tits.” I’m a vegetarian, but even I know that cows don’t have tits, they have teats. ...Read More
Vote for (Sh)Equality
August 26, 2010 by Mehrin Rahman · 5 Comments
It’s been 90 years since U.S. women won the right to vote after a 100-year struggle. With Women’s Equality Day–the day the 19th Amendment was ratified–we’re paying homage ...Read More
Parental Notification, Alaska Version
August 25, 2010 by Kathleen Richter · Leave a Comment
Yesterday, the Alaskan primary ballot included a measure to institute a parental notification law for minors seeking abortions. Unfortunately, the law passed. So what are the ramifications of this ...Read More
The Million-Dollar Diet
August 25, 2010 by Elizabeth Kissling · 3 Comments
I learned this week of a new twist on college fundraising. Perhaps I should say twisted fundraising, as this scheme at Stephens College, a private women’s college in Columbia, Mo., blends the worst ...Read More
Schwarzenegger’s Next Expendables—California Women?
August 20, 2010 by Carol King · 6 Comments
National health care passed in March, but health insurance companies—with the full support of the California Republican legislators and Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger—are still working overtime ...Read More
How Much Worse Can the Mosque Bashers Get? Ask Big John
August 18, 2010 by Betty Brink · 8 Comments
On Fox News Sunday,” Sen. Jack Reed (D-R.I.), speaking of the controversy over the building of a mosque near Ground Zero, said troops in Afghanistan are being asked to find common ground with ...Read More
SNEAK PEEK: The Women Who Won’t Abandon the Gulf
August 12, 2010 by ms. magazine · Leave a Comment
The government says that the millions of barrels of oil spilled into the Gulf are “dissipating.” But environmentalists warn about long-term effects. Does the “Mission Accomplished” ...Read More
More Than Dollar Coins and Disney: Native Women Warriors
August 12, 2010 by Ojibwa · 5 Comments
Indian women are conspicuously absent in U.S. history. When asked to name some famous Indian women, most people have difficulty in recalling anyone other than Pocahontas and Sacajawea. Both of these ...Read More
Making Us SAFER: A Bill to Reduce Rape Kit Backlog
August 11, 2010 by Stephanie Hallett · 4 Comments
Over 400,000 rape kits sit untested in refrigerators around the U.S. Any clues they may hold to rapists’ identities remain buried. But if the SAFER Act passes, the situation could drastically ...Read More



