Okay, we've come to expect that women will face sexual harassment and gender discrimination in certain male-dominated fields. We've heard stories of it happening in the military, in law enforcement, ... Read More

Liz Smith, the doyenne of dish, has left the building. The New York Post building, that is. The Post has dropped her legendary gossip column, citing tough economic times. Today's Post ... Read More

Picture this: You're trying to buy underwear - a bra or panties. But when you go to the store, all the salespeople are male. They can't measure you for a ... Read More

Nearly everyone has questioned Nadya Suleman's ability to care for 14 children once her octuplets come home from the hospital. Now Kaiser Permanente Medical Center has reportedly expressed those same concerns ... Read More

Some have accused Nadya Suleman of giving birth to octuplets in an attempt to score a TV reality show. Whether it's true or not, precedence has been set by twin ... Read More

Today is Ash Wednesday. For those of you not familiar with its observance, here's background on Ash Wednesday and the period known as Lent. A few female perspectives on Ash Wednesday, ... Read More

When a couple goes in search of a house of worship they can call their spiritual home, they often look for several things: the quality of the children's religious education ... Read More

Oh, the infighting. The partisanship. The denunciation of decisions previously made on how government funds are to be spent. No, I'm not talking about the US Congress. I'm talking about what's ... Read More

Out of the same sense of squeamishness that prevents men from nonchalantly buying a box of tampons or pads for their girlfriends, wives, daughters...these same guys will also give a ... Read More

For women, there is no level of alcohol consumption can be considered safe. Today we learned that a study of 1.2 million women in the UK over a seven-year period showed ... Read More

When octuplet grandpa Ed Doud contacted the Oprah show, he wanted to set the record straight and correct the public's misunderstanding of his daughter's recent statements and her situation. Today's ... Read More

The sensational aspects of the murder of 37-year-old Aasiya Zubair Hassan have distracted many from the underlying issue of domestic violence. Aasiya was decapitated by her husband, 44-year old Muzzammil ... Read More

Science finally proves what many of us already suspected: when men view sexy photos of bikini-clad females, they're more likely to regard the women around them as objects and less ... Read More

Is Denis Beaudoin the father of Nadya Suleman's octuplets? The former boyfriend of Nadya Suleman stated he believes he's the dad in an interview broadcast this morning on ABC's Good ... Read More

Talk about bobble-headed gender bias. Media Matters notes that US News & World Report has a poll on its website asking, "If you had a choice of four daycare centers run ... Read More

For over five years now Las Vegas has used the slogan "What happens here, stays here" to promote itself in the travel and tourism industry. But if you're a 'working ... Read More

Can one network handle two multiple-birth families? In the initial flurry of excitement surrounding the birth of octuplets in California, TLC (The Learning Channel) had considered a reality TV show featuring ... Read More

She's a very likely choice, according to my colleague Deborah White, Guide to US Liberal Politics. Deborah has the details, including a profile of the Kansas governor.

When doing a major TV interview, media coaches advise clients to focus on a single message. Although it's doubtful that Bristol Palin was coached for the Fox News interview with Greta ... Read More

How hot are Nadya Suleman and her octuplets? Too hot for her PR firm to handle. They dropped her as a client over the weekend. The Associated Press reported that although ... Read More

Is Nadya Suleman smarter than a 12th grader? I ask this because I suspect that she - like my 17-year old daughter Jaye - may be overly enamored of TLC's ... Read More

Searching for a silver lining in this storm cloud of a recession? How about equality for women in the workplace? That's what all these job cuts are leading to. But Boston ... Read More

Dating abuse is an equal-opportunity victimizer. You can never be too rich, too thin, too gorgeous, too famous, or too fabulous (at least in the eyes of the public) to ... Read More

Ten days ago I noted that "normal births don't require a publicist" and questioned why octuplet mom Nadya Suleman needed to hire a PR firm to handle her 'story.' Since then, ... Read More

Gas prices are rising. Many school-aged kids have next week off due to Winter Break. Road trip, anyone? For families considering a day trip or a couple of days off ... Read More

After losing her husband to the terrorist attacks of 9/11, Beverly Eckert became co-chairperson of Voices of Sept. 11, a group that pushed for government investigation and a proper memorial ... Read More

Old-school attitudes toward women, meet new technology and the power of social media. An extremist Hindu group in India has warned women not to celebrate Valentine's Day and will attack them ... Read More

I'm incredulous. Yesterday I blogged about my respect for Helen Thomas, the veteran newspaper journalist President Obama practically gushed over Monday night as he called on her during his first ... Read More

Helen of Troy may have had a face stunning enough to launch a thousand ships. But Helen Thomas has a reputation intimidating enough to make a new president gush. Did you ... Read More

The majority of my married female friends manage the family finances. As far as I can see, they're all solvent. "That's a cute little anecdote," you're thinking. "But what does that ... Read More

Angela Suleman, mother of octuplet mom Nadya Suleman, is disputing several statements made by Nadya Suleman in her NBC interview with Ann Curry. Grandma Angela says that Nadya's boyfriend and ... Read More

Culturally speaking, the US exports everything from TV shows to holidays; and various nations around the globe seem eager to embrace Western ways and adopt our customs. Not so with Valentine's ... Read More

Why do men behave the way they do when it comes to women, sex and porn? Evin M. Daly, one of the guys behind the website the Butler Report, sent a ... Read More

In an NBC News exclusive interview, octuplet mom Nadya Suleman sits down with Ann Curry to talk about her controversial pregnancy and birth. The interview will be aired in several ... Read More

A Depression-era child, my father used to talk about how important movies were at a time when there wasn't much to look forward to. So I'm taking to heart the opinions ... Read More

What's worse for the career of a male athlete: to be arrested for sexual assault and/or violent acts against a woman, or to be caught smoking pot? Here's one man's ... Read More

We're all looking for ways to stretch our budget and get what we want for less. In the spirit of frugality and TGIF, I'm passing along my own tried-and-true cost-cutting ... Read More

With over 130 million users worldwide, MySpace was bound to have a few bad apples in the bunch. Namely, predators of children. So it's good to know that MySpace has ... Read More

To create laws that improve women's lives, it makes sense to involve those who have been - and will be - affected. Want to see what change looks like? From Feministe ... Read More

How is Nadya Suleman, the woman who gave birth to octuplets on January 26, 2009, doing in the midst of an insatiable media feeding frenzy fueled by details of her ... Read More

Domestic violence has an ugly younger sister few of us acknowledge -- teen dating violence. If we're serious about combating domestic violence, we should be just as committed to tackling ... Read More

After watching NBC's Meet the Press yesterday, I began to think I was all wrong about Wall Street. The $18 million given out as bonuses to Wall Street execs seemed ... Read More

We've all seen the news stories about the ridiculous amounts baseball teams are offering players -- this at a time when millions of us are struggling to financially stay ... Read More