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Susan Lapides A Centenarian's Advice to Young Women: Figure Out What You Want
A conversation with Marian Cannon Schlesinger about feminism, privilege, Julia Child, and the Kennedy era.
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Sex 'Addiction' Isn't a Guy Thing
Lack of research and knowledge about female hypersexuality stem from the double standard that men always want sex and women never do. Some women instead refer to their condition as "love addiction" or "relationship addiction."
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adpowers/flickr Schools Are Failing Minority LGBT Students
A new report outlines the many obstacles gay children of color face as they try to get a good education.
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flickr When Did Fetal Pain Become Pro-Life Strategy?
As the pro-life movement shifted to emphasizing the agony of abortion, a tide turned in its favor.
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Showtime It Wasn't Bigotry Back Then: The Unsettling Message of Masters of Sex
The show has a knack for painting sympathetic portraits of now-villainized gender and sex norms—like old ideas about virginity, homosexuality, and women's roles.
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Is This the End of One of the World’s Harshest Abortion Laws?
For the first time, two women are battling for Chile’s highest office—and reproductive rights hang in the balance.
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AP Yeah, Alec Baldwin Is a Bigot
Supporting marriage rights doesn't mean you aren't a homophobe.
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Reuters What the Gay Community Lost While It Was Winning Gay Marriage
A new book highlights the shortcomings of the campaign for marriage equality—but is it too pessimistic about what its success means for the LGBT community?
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Reuters Six Consequences of One-Child Policy Reform
China's decision to allow more families to have two children ends a drastic 33-year social experiment. But is it too little, too late?
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Lookadoo.com 'Christian' Speaker Tells Public-School Students How to Be 'Dateable'
According to Justin Lookadoo, "dateable" women "know how to shut up." He's given hundreds of speeches at public schools across the South.
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From Zen Buddhism to Preying on Vulnerable Women
The chilling story of Eido Shimano—a new ebook from The Atlantic
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Anne-Marie Slaughter Doesn’t Want Women to Spend 30 Years Knitting
The New America Foundation president updates her views on gender and the workplace
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The Cancer Vaccine
Only one in three American girls is vaccinated against HPV. That will mean thousands of gratuitous cancer deaths. Young people in the South are especially unlikely to get the vaccine, according to a new study. Why?
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Reuters The Messy, Messy Relationship Between Income (and Race) and Obesity
The groups with the lowest obesity rates? The richest white women and the poorest black men.
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What Really Makes a Film Feminist?
Asking whether a new Swedish rating system based on the Bechdel test can evaluate a film's feminism exposes the problems with labeling a film "feminist" in the first place.
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Is Lily Allen's New Music Video as Progressive as the Internet Says?
A chat about the singer's comeback single and its brutal, if imperfect, parody of the year's biggest pop songs
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The Public Theater / Joan Marcus 'We Just Sat and Held Each Other': How It Feels to Watch Your Life Story Onstage
Fun Home author Alison Bechdel talks about watching her memoir about growing up lesbian with a closeted gay dad get reinvented as an off-Broadway musical.
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Reuters 23% of Americans Would Prefer a Female Boss (and That's a Record High)
Workers' preference for male bosses fell dramatically in 60 years, but the groups with the strongest male preference today are Republicans and women. (Yes, women.)
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Reuters Women and Beer: A 4,500-Year History Is Coming Full Circle
In Ancient Egypt, beer was made almost entirely by women. As we shifted to an industrial economy, men took over. Will the craft revolution reverse the trend?
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AP / Dan Hallman; Koji Sasahara What Joss Whedon Gets Wrong About the Word 'Feminist'
To claim that equality is the natural order is to forget the entire history of feminism.
