Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto was a woman of great intelligence and even greater contradictions. Both characteristics were evident during a lifetime spent on the world's political stage. Educated at Radcliffe ... Read More

I'd like to wish you Happy Holidays, but I know happiness isn't exactly what many women may be feeling about now. Too much food, too much stress, too much family ... Read More

Like Jamie Leigh Jones, the woman who testified before Congress about her alleged rape and abuse at the hands of Halliburton/KBR co-workers in Iraq, Tom has also worked for KBR. He ... Read More

Jones was Sexually Abused by Halliburton Supervisor in Houston The brutal gang rape of Jamie Leigh Jones by her Halliburton/KBR co-workers is only half the story. Additional background on Jones and what ... Read More

If you tuned into the December 16th finale of Survivor: China, your heart probably went out to forty-something Denise Martin of Revere, MA, who looked like a fish out of ... Read More

This story will make you ill. Investigative journalist Brian Ross and others at ABC News report on the stomach-churning story of one young woman who suffered rape and abuse in Iraq ... Read More

I've been following the story of the Saudi woman who was beaten and raped by a crowd of angry men for the crime of sitting in a parked car with ... Read More

Three cheers for Katherine Whitcome, an anthropologist at Harvard University, who recently drew attention to an extraordinary innate ability women possess but men have taken for granted: We don't tip ... Read More

I had no idea that I'm essentially a walking billboard when I reuse heavy-duty, good quality shopping bags from stores I purchase items from. And I'm in good company. Today's ... Read More

Ah, to be female in the Republican Party, where the men running for President can't seem to agree on How To Treat a Lady: One had an extramarital affair and is ... Read More

What's the biggest innovation to hit mommyhood? Not the disposable diaper or the heated diaper wipe. Not a diaper bag so sweet it could go from nursery to boardroom to ... Read More

Joseph A. Palermo wrote the book on the Cuban Missile Crisis. Or at least part of a book on it. And now the author of Robert F. Kennedy and the ... Read More

This weekend, the 2008 presidential race felt like a scene out of Disney's High School Musical as brainiac Barack Obama was squired across three states by head cheerleader Oprah Winfrey ... Read More

Waterboarding, the big buzzword in torture circles in our nation's capitol and around the globe, may be relatively new to you. But it's old hat to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, according ... Read More

You've heard the story about the hired Santas in Australia who were told not to say "ho, ho, ho" because it might be demeaning to women, right? A number of media ... Read More

Don'tcha just love it when celebrities think their fame gives them license to say any idiotic thing that pops into their swelled heads? No matter how ignorant, how misinformed, how ... Read More

The strange, complex case of 13-year-old Megan Meier - who committed suicide in 2006 because of a failed MySpace relationship with a 16-year-old boy - is more twisted than any ... Read More

Jodie Foster was one of the many notable Hollywood women present for The Hollywood Reporter's 16th annual Women in Entertainment Power 100 breakfast yesterday. The fact that you or I ... Read More

I'm going on a beach vacation in about two weeks, and I'm just grateful that nobody's going to sneak around with a camera pointed at my rear, take pictures, and ... Read More

With her ruddy cheeks, rounded nose, and crinkly-eyed smile, Gillian Gibbons looks more like a young Mrs. Santa Claus than a lawbreaker whose crime made headlines around the globe. Yet the ... Read More