For years, the National Organization for WOMEN (NOW) has hidden behind the abortion issue as when handing out candidate endorsements, but one day after a staffer for California Democratic gubernatorial candidate Jerry Brown suggested calling […]
Do you believe that people can be so smart that they are stupid? A study co-authored by researcher Mary Panjari, at Monash University Medical School in Prahran, Australia, found that women diagnosed with breast cancer […]
Which mom out there contacted the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) about the dangerous Fisher-Price brand high chair that scratched your child? There were 13 of you so fess up. We moms want to […]
Yes, I’m stealing John Stewart’s plea to restore sanity. Pop Star Katy Perry performed her hit song “Hot and Cold” during a taping of Sesame Street last week, wearing a dress that some felt was […]
Switzerland had to be dragged up the steps of equality, kicking and screaming before it finally had a federal referendum allowing women’s suffrage in 1971. Although some cantons allowed women’s suffrage prior to that, much […]
Dear Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, How rude! Who does Harry Reid think he is calling you a “hottie” in front of an entire audience of politicos at Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s home. Asked to clarify his comments, […]
Billie Jean King won 12 Grand Slam singles titles, 16 Grand Slam women’s doubles titles, and 11 Grand Slam mixed doubles titles, she was the first woman in professional tennis to make over $100,000 a […]
That’s one of my favorite lines from “As Good as it Gets.” I’ve often wondered how much space is actually between sane and crazy. My guess is not much. In fact, I think that people […]
Belgium’s liberal MP, Daniel Bacquelaine, is a leading force in his country’s movement to ban women wearing burqas, “We cannot allow someone to claim the right to look at others without being seen.” To date, […]
Those are fighting words delivered by China’s Commerce Minister Chen Deming in an interview with Washington Post reporter, John Pomfret, regarding the U.S. administration’s challenge to China’s currency devaluation. What Chen doesn’t realize is that […]
“My mother could probably pass the physical exam that they give preseason for the Redskins, but I doubt if she could play too many games for them.” John Glenn, (July 18, 1962) testimony before the […]
Iran isn’t know for its compassion for women. These days, the public face of cruelty to women is Sakine Mohammadi Ashtiani, a woman who was accused of having an illicit relationship with two men while […]
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Take a good look at Marcia Powell’s face; look at her eyes. She never knew her mother or father and at the age of 14 ran away from her adoptive home and spent the next […]
You spend your entire life scraping and scratching for every opportunity, a difficult task after your father suddenly dies when you are just nine years old and your mother is tasked with being the sole […]
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