Women’s History Month
Did you know March is National Women’s Month? I didn’t, until this article was brought to my attention. Unfortunately the draw of the article was not that it was National Women’s Month, but yet another embarrassing example of how women are marginalized in the media. A local news organization in [...]
English: Seth MacFarlane at the 2010 Comic Con in San Diego (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Best Actress Academy Award (Photo credit: cliff1066™)
In my previous life, I was an actor. I wasn’t ever Jennifer Lawrence famous, but I worked enough to be self-sufficient and sign the occasional autograph. Perhaps because of my 20-year [...]
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Despite all of the ‘Get out the Vote’ campaigns, celebrity pronouncements that voting is hip, and hype that surrounded this tight presidential race, voter turn-out for this election declined compared to the 2008 election. In 2008, 131 million people voted, while this year so far 126 million voters are estimated to have [...]
On Tuesday, Oct. 9, 14-year-old Malala Yousafzai was doing what she did every day; coming home from school, when two men stopped the bus she was riding in and shot her in the head and neck. Two other girls were also shot. Yousafzai remains in critical condition but has luckily not suffered any lasting [...]
In the first season of Mad Men, career-oriented Peggy Olsen visits her doctor to get a prescription for the birth control pill. The doctor gives her a fatherly lecture about becoming a “strumpet” and warns that he’ll take her off of the pill if she “abuses it.” This scene serves as a reminder of [...]
Last week we posted about the temporary injunction of a Mississippi law that would require the state’s sole abortion clinic to close.
Yesterday, U.S. District Judge Daniel P. Jordan ruled that the injunction will remain in place while he considers more evidence – meaning the Jackson Women’s Health Organization can stay open until he [...]
The conflict, famine and chaos of Somalia have contributed to a rise in rape and sexual abuse incidents targeting Somali women and girls according to victims, aid workers and United Nations officials. The famine has forced hundreds of thousands of women to trek hundreds of miles seeking food, often alone with children, leaving behind [...]
Until recently Israel was hailed as a global leader in gender equality. Women in Israel now say a quickly growing community of ultra-Orthodox is gradually stripping them of their basic rights. In recent months there have been increasingly successful efforts by this community to segregate women from men, not only in private buildings but [...]
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