Rule on Women and Health Care Access to be Finalized
By Kay Steiger - Nov 18th, 2008 at 3:22 pmThe really awful proposed rule that Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Levitt is trying to push through in his last few weeks of public…
Posts Tagged ‘gender equality’
Wanted: Geekettes
By Kay Steiger - Nov 18th, 2008 at 1:10 pmThere’s an interesting piece in The New York Times today about the lack of women in computer science. While women are actually starting to approach…
Michelle Obama: Black Beauty… and Booty?
By Loryn Wilson - Nov 18th, 2008 at 12:29 pmErin Aubry Kaplan at Salon sings the praises of Michelle Obama’s beauty and her well-proportioned rear end:
But what really thrills me, what really feels…
Shut Up, Helen Mirren.
By Loryn Wilson - Nov 18th, 2008 at 11:48 amFeministing reports that Helen Mirren believes female jurors in rape cases are “sexually jealous” of the rape survivors:
“Whether in a deep-seated animalistic way, going…
Milestone
By Jesse Singal - Nov 14th, 2008 at 12:14 pmFor the first time, a woman is a four-star general. Congratulations to Ann E. Dunwoody, who has served in the military for 33 years.
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What’s Wrong with Camille Paglia?
By Jesse Singal - Nov 12th, 2008 at 5:28 pmSigh. Oh, look, another Camille Paglia column:
I like Sarah Palin, and I’ve heartily enjoyed her arrival on the national stage. As a career classroom…
Mommabama
By Kay Steiger - Nov 12th, 2008 at 2:24 pmRebecca Traister has a good look in Salon at the public’s perception of Michelle Obama as First Lady. The media is already eager to paint…
Obama Plans to Overturn the Global Gag Rule
By Kay Steiger - Nov 11th, 2008 at 2:00 pmIn one of the most significant changes on sexual and reproductive health from the Bush administration, advisers to President-elect Barack Obama said yesterday he plans…
Hot Girls in Magazines Make Guys Feel Like Shit Too
By Lisha Arino - Nov 10th, 2008 at 5:00 pmThe “impossibly hot girl” ideal promoted by the popular culture and advertising has a surprising effect on men, according to a recent study conducted by…
New Hampshire is for the Ladies
By Jessica Hillyard - Nov 10th, 2008 at 11:00 amVia Feministe, another milestone of this historic election occurred in New Hampshire, where women now make up more than half of the elected members of…
Michelle Obama Presents Herself as Mostly Just a Mom
By Jesse Singal - Nov 7th, 2008 at 3:56 pmDana Goldstein has a good post on the rather retrograde manner in which Michelle Obama is presented on her husband’s transition website.
Dana excerpts the…
We’re Still Scared of Sex Toys?
By Jesse Singal - Oct 31st, 2008 at 1:14 pmIt’s easy to forget when you live in an enclave of liberal hedonism like Washington, D.C., but there are states in America that still have…
Women and the Individual Health Insurance Market
By Kay Steiger - Oct 30th, 2008 at 5:25 pmVia Megan at Jezebel. So the New York Times reports something that I wrote about last week: The individual health insurance market is much more…
The Air Quotes Say It All
By Jessica Hillyard - Oct 30th, 2008 at 9:34 amVia Feministing, The Daily Show’s Samantha Bee tells us, in so many words, about “the seedy underbelly of the women’s ‘health’ scam”:
Well, I’m “shocked.”…
How to Build a Dating System That Isn’t Oppressive
By Jesse Singal - Oct 29th, 2008 at 12:02 pmYesterday at Feministing, Samhita did a post on ten things she “absolutely hate[s] about heteronormative dating”:
1. You are expected to dress nice and act…
