Have you ever heard a story that you thought everyone needed to hear? Last week, I attended the Democracy that Delivers for Women conference, sponsored by the Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE).  Over 230 women and men from around the world came to DC to explore the economic and political empowerment, civil rights, and [...]

Over the last few weeks I’ve seen several people asking for recommendations over Twitter and Facebook for book suggestions with strong female leads.  I realized most of the books that immediately came to mind were mainly about men.  So last week I started asking people one question: Who is your favorite female literary character? Here [...]

The Washington Post published a story today on a topic near and dear to Men’s Rights Advocates (MRAs): child support payments. The author, Janice D’Arcy, discusses a recent ruling (Turner v. Rogers) by the Supreme Court. In this ruling, the court suggests that prior to punishing “deadbeat dads” due to a lack of payment, lower [...]

There is something about a large group of women marching down a busy, public street in the light of day that forces us to confront false ideas about sexual assault. All the better if a lot of the women are half-naked. There are no hoards of men chasing after them due to their lack of [...]

Last night I was reminded of an issue I’ve written about here a few times.  At WIN’s Women Opening Doors for Women event the keynote speech, given by Sam Bennett, president of the Women’s Campaign Fund focused on women candidates.  She not only asked that we all ask women we know to run, and nominate [...]

This piece was cross-posted from RH Reality Check On Thursday, the New York Times’ Sophia Kishkovsky published a piece about alarming news that’s been buzzing in reproductive rights circles for the last couple of weeks – Russia has embraced  their very own anti-choice movement, and it looks strikingly like ours here in the U.S. This [...]

Jane is out with Tom on their -th date and they go back to his apartment where they start to hook up.  He asks if he should get a condom.  She says no, she doesn’t want to sleep with him tonight.  (She says ‘tonight’ whether she means it or not because she doesn’t want him [...]

Reading Materials Claudia Sternbach’s new book, Reading Lips: A memoir of Kisses, is a celebration of the great experience of living and going through a woman’s life. It is not just one story, but also many different stories together in one book. For more information, click here. The book Getting to Happy by Terry McMillan [...]

Tuesday night I went to the Nationals game.  They were finally back in from a 10 day road trip, Zimmerman was back in the line -up, it was a beautiful night for baseball.  Within minutes of taking our seats I felt like the guy in front of us was paying a little too much attention [...]

Earlier this month, I reviewed Patricia McArdle’s wonderful new book, Farishta. Farishta has won acclaim, and was named as the 2010 Amazon Breakthrough Novel in the general fiction category. Last week, I asked Patricia some questions about her career in the Foreign Service, the challenges she faced as a woman, and the changes that she has seen over [...]