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 warns […]
Author: Amy Williams
What Was(n’t) So Great About the 1950s? Part II: Sex!
Americans in the early Cold War period were not having good sex, apparently. At this time, many psychiatrists, marriage counselors and gynecologists worried that women were failing to perform in […]
Violence Against Women Act Protects LGBT Couples, Too
The U.S. Department of Justice recently made an important step in fixing our justice system’s approach toward same-sex domestic violence. The DOJ clarified [pdf] that the Violence Against Women Act […]
Want To Make Money in the Stock Market? Take Testosterone!
My high school science textbook taught me that aggressive sperm “penetrate” those docile eggs that float around in unassuming uteruses. Larry Summers told me that women lack a natural aptitude […]
Real-Life “League of Their Own:” Remembering Dottie
Dorothy “Dottie” Kamenshek, the star of the All-American Girls’ Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL) died Friday at the age of 84 in her Palm Desert home. Kamenshek, the talented first-base player […]
What Was So Great About the 1950s?
The late 1940s and early 1950s tend to be remembered in the popular imagination as a time of virtue: The United States emerged from the second World War as a […]
Erasing Women from our History Textbooks?
Why should feminists care about Texas’s current stranglehold on the textbook market? And what can we do about it?