I spent last week sitting on a beach reading Bossypants and an alternate version of Pride and Prejudice.  Yes, you are feeling jealousy right now.  If it helps I’m back to the real world and work. While sitting on the beach reading I noticed an interesting beach phenomenon.  While at a family oriented resort, I [...]

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 [...]

This past Father’s Day, President Obama delivered a weekly address in which he discussed the importance of having present, engaged fathers.  While I think we’re all on the same page on that one, I wonder if our determination to give women control of their bodies is not inadvertently sending men the signal that they should [...]

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 [...]

Every time I bring up Equal Pay Day (or Unequal Pay Day as I prefer to think of it), some idiot (usually an unenlightened man) lectures me about women’s choices.  Women choose careers that allow them to be with their kids more, so of course they get paid less overall, as a group. Now, let’s [...]

As I’m sure you’ve all heard, its extremely likely that the U.S. Federal Government will be shut down if Congress does not agree upon and vote on a budget (H.R. 1) for the fiscal year. All throughout the day I’ve been getting news alerts saying they are close to a compromise . . . I’m [...]

Every year for Women’s History Month, I read a book about women.  I started this my first year out of college, when I was given,  America’s Women: 400 Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates & Heroines, by Gail Collins. If you haven’t read it, please do.  It was a great way to remind me how far [...]

Last week I was irritated by an article in the Washington Post about mean girls and what happens to them when they grow up.  Apparently, they change.  Amanda Judson, a senior at Union College in Upstate New York, wrote her senior honors thesis on the same subject, comparing freshmen with seniors. She reported that freshmen women [...]

What do anti-abortion US activist Lila Rose and the Karzai-led government of Afghanistan have in common?  Turns out, a lot.  It seems that people who are out to deny women basic health services and control over their lives like to use similar techniques – mainly, accusing the groups that actually DO help women of misusing [...]

Cross-posted with permission from Madama Ambi "In the public discourse the fetus has been elevated to an equal status with a living, breathing human being.  More and more, women are viewed as the enemy of children, requiring the State’s intervention to protect their developing children from them.  But, in reality, women still conceive, nurture, give [...]