It’s been over 40 years since I founded Choices Women’s Medical Center, one of the first and currently the largest and most comprehensive women’s health care centers in the country. Two years before the Supreme Court decision of Roe v. Wade, I opened the doors of Choices to provide women with services they desperately needed. [...]

I first visited the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial two weeks ago on a brief trip to D.C. I found the memorial striking, but probably not in the way its creators intended. To me, it emphasized how easy it is to celebrate past successes, without carrying their ideals into the future. One quotation in [...]

Glued to the television in 2008, I remember many of my female friends and I holding our collective breath as we watched with fascination the rise of female contenders for the United States presidential ticket. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s magnetic appeal first captured my imagination as a teenager in the 90’s when I watched her speak [...]

I recently finished interviewing candidates for a number of positions at my current firm, from interns to mid-level managers.  While the job market is very competitive now, it’s important to remember that employers are looking for reasons to disqualify you.  It makes their job so much simpler if they have fewer people to actually consider.  [...]

I’ve always been fat. I’m not one of those fat girls who has stories about when I was thin—because I was never thin. And I grew up with the knowledge that I was fat. When I was three years old I was playing outside with my friends and I got hungry. I came inside and [...]

The most important thing to note about this story is that the perpetrator has never done anything like this before.  That’s the important part, and it’s important that you remember this important part.  He had never done anything like this before. I don’t know whether his saying such a thing, to him, mitigates what he [...]

The U.S. ranks 40th in the world for women’s political empowerment and we’re losing ground. Fortieth. This ranking, based on 2010 data, is a comparative measure of the gap between men and women in political decision-making at the highest levels. (Here is the entire report.) Not 1st. Not 12th. Not 19th. Not 32nd. And, that’s [...]

Dakota Fanning reclines in a tiny pink dress, innocent look on her face, large phallic bottle of Lola Marc Jacobs perfume between her outstretched legs. I’ll give you a moment to calm the titillation you might be experiencing. Would it help if I said that she looks no older than 14? No? Interestingly enough, you [...]

We always hear that having more women in office is some version of “good.”  But what does that mean, exactly?  And where’s the data?  Stephenie Foster, a long time supporter and guest contributor to Fem2.0, lays out the specifics regarding democratic governance, critical mass, and constituent service: The political empowerment of women is one of [...]

I must sound like a broken record. I know people must get sick of hearing it, because I get sick of saying it, but we live in a rape culture. To preface what I’m about to say, I would like to give a brief description of what that means, as defined in Transforming a Rape [...]