How powerful are the mom bloggers? Powerful enough for a presidential candidate to listen to them. Dissatisfied with the last presidential debate, MOMocrats came up with a list of questions they ... Read More

A woman hates to tell her age. Especially when she's a teenage mother from the Yearning For Zion ranch, the Texas polygamy sect that had its children - all 463 ... Read More

What does Hillary Clinton think about sexism and the Bible? Jack Kerwick believes he knows the answer. Kerwick, whose background is in ethics and political philosophy, has written a guest ... Read More

We're 100 days away from the Beijing 2008 Summer Olympics. And tomorrow is the deadline for the BOCOG smiling children's faces photo submission, according to their website: To offer opportunities for ... Read More

The Houston Chronicle reported last Friday that 40 women in the polygamy sect chose to go to a family violence shelter instead of returning to the ranch in West Texas ... Read More

India is a country veiled in mystery to most women living in the West. Bollywood actresses, former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, the Hindu goddess Kali - these are the images of ... Read More

You've heard the male pundits hash out what happened in Pennsylvania yesterday. Now get a female perspective from Women's eNews on the subject. And don't assume because the news organization's title ... Read More

Suppose you were owed almost a quarter of a million dollars in back pay to make up for the fact that you were discriminated against in the workplace, earning substantially ... Read More

"This is a story about smoking, blood pressure, and obesity." So says the co-author of a study released yesterday by the Harvard School of Public Health that indicates women's life expectancy ... Read More

Earth Day may have stolen its thunder. But today is also Equal Pay Day, a day that every working women should know about and talk about. What...you've never heard of Equal Pay ... Read More

What resolutions are to New Year's Day, green-inspired commitments can be to Earth Day. A discarded plastic bag litters the landscapePhoto © Matt Cardy/Getty Images And one fairly painless and inexpensive change ... Read More

The children in the Texas polygamy case are staying put for now. With 200 lawyers participating in the hearing, there were more than enough to go around. Compare and contrast this ... Read More

I love being the proverbial fly on the wall when smart women take up a topic that the media has built up to be The Big Issue. Come along with ... Read More

In Friday's Yale Daily News Aliza Shvarts, the student whose senior art project dealt with abortion as art, explains what she did, why she did it, and what she ... Read More

It's not enough to show up on talk shows prepared to answer some questions. Today's First Lady (or First Lady wannabe) had better be ready to step into the hot ... Read More

For those old enough to remember, actress Jennifer Grey of Dirty Dancing fame became virtually unrecognizable after having plastic surgery on her distinctive nose. Lucky for her she didn't have to ... Read More

I want your story. Yes, yours. But first I'll tell you mine to explain why. A good friend recently lost her mother, and has been spending her free time clearing out ... Read More

On the same day the Yale Daily News reported the disturbing story of a student whose senior art project depicted her multiple pregnancies and induced abortions, Yale administrators claimed the ... Read More

Actress, wife, and now internet video superstar, Trisha Walsh Smith is burning up YouTube with an extended rant about her husband and their divorce. As I write this 2,266, 425 ... Read More

The gloves were on and the claws retracted at tonight's Democratic debate between Clinton and Obama. The candidates were so terribly polite to each other. But Charlie Gibson and George Stephanopoulos ... Read More

Don't ask the candidate's wife about cooking. I'm all for promoting the idea that it's not polite to talk about recipes in mixed (i.e. Democrat & Republican) company. If we want ... Read More

Jay Rosen, writing for the Huffington Post, drew my attention to the fact that the person who broke the 'Obama in San Francisco' story was a woman, Mayhill Fowler. As ... Read More

Are you kidding me? Thomas Tennant, About.com Guide to Talk Shows, writes in his blog: It looks like Dr. Phil is brewing up another storm. Over the weekend, a member of ... Read More

For the past week, NBC has promoted the heck out of one of its shows, The Biggest Loser. And it's doing so not only because the season finale is tonight, ... Read More

National Public Radio is not known for muckraking. So when I woke up to an NPR story about Clinton campaigning in Pennsylvania - and a discussion as to why Bill ... Read More

We're enjoying a year of firsts for women in politics, and I'm not just talking about Hillary's campaign. Inside the Senate Women Power WorkshopPhoto © Alex Wong/Getty Images According to the Center ... Read More

Don't bother to call 911 for help in North Port, Florida, because nobody will respond, even if you're being kidnapped. Denise Lee, the young mother of two little boys, was ... Read More

What might make an old guy grin? How about a nude young woman in his sights? A man and his rodPhoto of Dick Cheney © 2001 David Bohrer/Getty Images That's what ... Read More

Cleveland Plain Dealer columnist Connie Schultz is not mincing words. Right from the get-go, she's telling it like it is: Someone tell me, please, how grown men in 2008 can believe ... Read More

So Katie Couric may bail out of the CBS Evening News before her contract expires in 2011. No surprise, even though CBS CEO Les Moonves practically swooned over her recently. News is ... Read More

Suppose you could get paid a great deal of money to write about your life, your home, your family, your young child, your relatives, your friends, even your dog, in ... Read More

Jennifer Baumgardner is dedicating herself to a deeply-felt cause - helping women shed the shame and humiliation they feel as victims of rape. She's been working on a multimedia rape ... Read More

As media outlets around the world buzz about the 400 children removed from a Texas ranch where a polygamist sect forced marriage and sexual abuse on young girls, I can't ... Read More

Mean girls persecute, humiliate, and victimize other girls. But how mean, soulless and opportunistic would a girl have to be to videotape her group of friends beating another girl in ... Read More

NPR host Peter Sagal has a beef with the movie Horton Hears a Who. As the father of three daughters, he wonders why girls never get to be heroines and ... Read More

Oprah was clearly nervous during the interview. But she did Thomas, the pregnant man, and his wife Nancy justice in his first TV interview. The couple decided to go on ... Read More

Moe Tkacik, an editor at Jezebel, just gave Rush Limbaugh a big fat piece of her mind in response to another tired old tirade against women by the the self-proclaimed ... Read More

What would a city, "seemingly put together, from top to bottom, without a woman's touch," look like? And what would life be like for its inhabitants? Middle East Issues Guide ... Read More

Politicians in the good ol' U.S. of A. haven't cornered the market on infidelity. Like the decline in the financial market, adultery is a global phenomenon. The latest 'Oops! I got ... Read More

It may be April Fool's Day today, but I'm not pulling the wool over your eyes. Sarah White, About.com's Guide to Knitting, alerted me to a very unusual handmade item ... Read More

About a month ago I attended a high-powered all-day meeting involving well-respected and nationally-recognized participants. The presenters, too, were significant players. Yet this gathering of notables wasn't enough to hold ... Read More