How To Respect Sex Workers

Most women have strong feelings about the sex industry, be they for or against. (And many, of course, remain undecided.) When dealing with such an emotionally volatile topic, it’s easy to inadvertently ...Read More

Yes, Pornography Is Racist

In Shira Tarrant’s blog post on race and porn, she interviews some well-known African-American performers to challenge my claim that porn is racist. There are some women of color who have been successful ...Read More

Women’s Equality: The Road Behind Us, The Road Ahead

Today is the 90th anniversary of suffrage, and we’ve indeed come a long way, baby. When the suffragists finally got the 19th Amendment passed in 1920, it was after two generations of women had busted ...Read More

Can Rosie Get a Green-Collar Job?

Is President Obama’s emphasis on green jobs in his stimulus legislation–$55 million in funds directed toward developing green training programs–a 21st-century version of the New ...Read More

Four Ways to Fight Sexist Interviewers

If subtle gender biases can influence hiring decisions, what can women do about it? Here are some ideas: 1) The illegal interview question: know how to respond. Many hiring interviews are unstructured, ...Read More

It Wasn’t Your Resume, It Was Your Vagina

The laundry list of interview do’s and don’t’s for women job-seekers is lengthy and often contradictory. Forbes tells women to be personable on the interview–but not too chatty. Cosmo ...Read More

Even in a Recession, Flex Makes (Dollars and) Sense

Flex time, job-sharing, compressed schedules and telecommuting: These workplace practices are needed now more than ever as we juggle the demands of work and other life commitments in a global, 24/7 ...Read More

Oh SNAP! Reduced Food Stamps Are a Feminist Issue

The Senate has voted to cut funding for SNAP, formerly known as food stamps. Over 40 million Americans receive Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits. In 2014, the assistance for a family ...Read More

A Labor Market Punishing to (M)others

Today, New York Times writer David Leonhardt laudably asks why the labor market is so punishing to mothers. He notes an obvious pattern—that top posts in both the private and public sectors usually ...Read More

Single Moms Fall Into the Gender Pay Gap

Recent reports by the Center for American Progress (CAP) and The Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR) have exposed the truth about unmarried women’s economic security, and it’s ...Read More

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