According to People magazine, 18-year-old Bristol Palin, daughter of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, gave birth on Saturday, December 27, 2008, to a baby boy weighing 7 lbs. 7 oz. ... Read More

Imagine a child working up to 20 hours a day, mopping, vacuuming, dusting, cleaning, doing laundry...with no breaks and no days off. Picture her at age 10 with red, chapped ... Read More

Actually, it's the Top 12 Most Influential Women of 2008. And if we're going to split hairs, it's the Top 8 Most Influential Women with four groups of women that ... Read More

Who can ignore the irony of singer and actress Eartha Kitt passing away on Christmas Day? After all, her sexy, sultry "Santa Baby" brought holiday spice to the season long ... Read More

Two steps forward, one step back. Do any of us stride confidently into the new year without a backward glance (tinged with regret) at the year that was? It is ... Read More

When Rebekah Spicuglia heard that her sister Rachel - a five-year employee of Chili's restaurant chain who had filed a sexual harassment complaint against a Chili's in Kennesaw, GA with ... Read More

Alexandra Penney has seen both good times and bad. During one rough patch, she worked three jobs as a single mom and cashiered at a fish market in rubber boots and ... Read More

Bristol Palin was due to have her baby this weekend. No word yet, but unfortunately her soon-to-be mother-in-law Sherry Johnston (boyfriend and baby-daddy Levi's mom) was busted on drug charges. I ... Read More

We all know the big names who come out with their 'best of' lists, but what do the professional women in the field - the female film journalists - name ... Read More

What was once a threat has now become a reality. The Bush administration's proposed 'right of conscience' rule was pushed through late Thursday night, enabling health care workers to withhold ... Read More

I know it's a free country. But what kind of woman would name her children after a universally reviled world leader (whose name is synonymous with evil) and a well-known ... Read More

In 2008, I wrote a great deal about Hillary Clinton, and though I haven't yet counted the articles, the blog posts alone number about 60. Within these posts are hundreds ... Read More

I have a sneaky secret. The most fetching items in my wardrobe - though new to me - aren't new. I am comfortably middle class, yet I frequently visit thrift ... Read More

What US president holds the distinction of nominating the most women to his Cabinet at the start of his first term? Is it George W. Bush or Bill Clinton...or will ... Read More

Over the weekend I read conservative commentator Kathleen Parker's most recent column and thought, "How did I miss this story?" Maybe you did too, so here's an excerpt: Two guys, some ... Read More

It's become almost commonplace to see females celebrities getting fried under the klieg lights of celebrity; but one who's never wilted is the virtually unassailable Oprah Winfrey, a woman repeatedly ... Read More

SCOTUS (also known as the Supreme Court of the United States) hasn't been particularly friendly to women's issues-related cases in the past few years. Will a future SCOTUS with one ... Read More

Should you ever talk to co-workers about what you earn? Or discuss it privately with friends? That subject is pretty much taboo in the workplace, yet one woman's experiences led ... Read More

A carton of eggnog is sitting in my refrigerator that no one will drink. (I'm lactose intolerant and drink soy milk eggnog instead.) My daughters, who like eggnog, won't touch ... Read More

Caroline Kennedy to replace Hillary Clinton as the junior senator from New York? A story that bubbled to the surface late last week appeared to come to a rolling boil ... Read More

As UAW members watched the Big Three automakers beg for aid this week, the union itself has made concessions to help convince Congress that bailing out Detroit is the right ... Read More

If you're like most moms, you 'd rather not have them in the house. But your young daughter loves everything about them. What's a mom to do about Bratz, the 'Barbie-with-attitude' ... Read More

Is adoption a feminist issue? Does it pit adoptive mother against birth mother and create a hierarchy of who's fit and who's unfit to be a mother? Is international adoption ... Read More

The Bush administration, long opposed to women's healthcare rights, is in the process of throwing down the gauntlet in its final days. Medical ethics, the responsibilities of healthcare workers, reproductive rights ... Read More

A round-up of articles covering the Clinton nomination: From Newsweek: "Hillary Clinton, US Secretary of State Nominee" From the Boston Globe: "Activists expect Clinton to propel women's rights" From the Huffington Post: "Women ... Read More

A couple of ways you can turn your holiday gift-giving into something that benefits us all: Want to help NOW (National Organization for Women) but don't have the resources to make ... Read More

At the end of every Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade, there's Santa waving to the crowds to usher in the holiday season. Where does he go after that? Why, straight to ... Read More

Just over a month ago, I asked "Who Brutally Beat the TV Anchor?" in a blog post about Anne Pressly, a Little Rock, Arkansas newscaster who was found savagely beaten ... Read More

As President-elect Barack Obama announces a handful of nominees today, it's good to see capable, competent, highly-qualified women in the mix. Of course we know Senator Hillary Clinton. And Arizona ... Read More