The plan isn’t perfect, but women’s poor employment outlook seems to be on Obama’s radar. There were a lot of rumors about what would be included in President Obama’s speech to a joint session of Congress yesterday. Would it be mostly tax cuts? Would it extend unemployment benefits? How much will be spent on infrastructure [...]
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JCPenney: A Little Credit, but a Lotta Outrage Too
Today was one of those days when my inbox piled up with exactly one topic: the new shirt being sold at JCPenney. Maybe you’ve seen it. In case the image is too flowery for you to read the words, they are: “I’m too pretty to do homework so my brother has to do it for me.” [...]
Women’s Equality Day
Today is Women’s Equality day – a day which celebrates women’s right to vote in the United States, a right protected by the 19th amendment. In the years since August 26, 1920, women across the globe have made gains and changed their lives. Women now have the right to vote in nearly every country, approximately 139 [...]
National Women’s Equality Day: Why You Deserve Applause
Picture this: you’re standing on the coast looking out onto Liberty Island and you see women. Women are scaling the Statue of Liberty to hang several 40-foot banners from her crown. Not far away, more women are banning together to stop the ticker at the American Stock Exchange. More than 100,000 women are coming together [...]
All Wars Are Intimate Wars
All wars are intimate. For women whose bodies have become battlegrounds in the struggle for reproductive freedom, the intimacy is profound. In the U.S. where the rise of the fundamentalist right has resulted in extensive attempts at creative new restrictions on women’s rights to Moscow, where an American style anti-choice movement has emerged, the struggle [...]
Did You Hear About the Rear Admiral?
It happened months ago, and yet, I wouldn’t be surprised if I wasn’t the only one who hadn’t yet heard. With the distressed economy at home and the political unrest abroad, it would have been an easy announcement to miss. But it shouldn’t have been. This past June, Rear Admiral Sandra L. Stosz became the [...]
My Dress is Not a Yes – Slutwalk DC
We took some amazing photos, met some wonderful people and heard some inspiring stories this weekend at Slutwalk DC. I was lucky enough to have the volunteered help of both my boyfriend and my father at the Fem2.0 booth. Just the fact that two of the most important men in my life spent their Saturday [...]
TODAY: Find Me at Slutwalk DC
DCers, join Fem2 today from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on the National Mall for Slutwalk DC! We’ll be running a photo booth so we can commemorate the day and all the wonderful people who attended. Come take your picture with us — then Like us on Facebook on Monday and tag your photo! We’ll [...]
Join Our Next Tweetchat at #nxtgenfem! Marlo Thomas and Passing the Torch of Feminism
The argument remains: Do we, as women, still live in a male-dominated society? Or have we finally achieved a sense of equality? Perhaps this will be a debate that never ends, in a “chicken or egg” cul de sac in which each side can produce convincing and fact-based arguments, but no conclusion is really ever [...]
Five Things To Know About New Birth Control Availability
Good news for liberated ladies! Yesterday, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) enacted new guidelines to provide a variety of free preventive services to women, effective on plan years starting on or after August 1, 2012. These reforms stem from the hotly contested Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010. One [...]