Like Sonia Sotomayor, Regina Benjamin has been nominated by President Obama for a prominent and visible position. Benjamin, a doctor with a long history of practicing family medicine, is Obama's ... Read More

While more and more tricks and stunts are being pulled on contestants of ABC's The Bachelor and The Bachelorette to revive a dying concept (e.g. post-show breakups, previously dismissed suitors ... Read More

Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor jumped a major hurdle earlier today as the Senate Judiciary Committee voted in favor of her nomination. The committee split along party lines in a ... Read More

Sarah Palin's farewell speech as she stepped down as Governor of Alaska contains her own explanation of why she doesn't need or deserve your vote in the future, and offers ... Read More

I just got back home from the BlogHer conference, a female-centric annual gathering for bloggers and other women online. In many ways, the event was a short-lived female utopia -- ... Read More

We register for conferences because we're drawn to the speakers and the workshops, and we attend thinking they'll enhance our professional development. But the best part of any conference is ... Read More

When 1500 women come together for a blogging conference, there's a lot of talk about mommy's lives, politics, food blogging, travel, and children. But typically, any kid talk centers on ... Read More

How many women have walked past construction sites and endured catcalls and whistles from the guys working there? Now the embarrassment and humiliation can be yours at the best 'wolf ... Read More

A female is never too young to be raped, and the most recent reminder of this horrifying fact is an incident in Phoenix, AZ. An 8-year-old girl was lured with gum ... Read More

Attendees arriving early for the world's biggest conference for female bloggers may not realize it. But at BlogHer '09 which officially kicks off today, four forces are at work: friendship trust influence sponsorships The first ... Read More

Marissa Mayer's name isn't a household word. But if you use Gmail, Google Maps, iGoogle, Google Chrome, Google Health, and Google News, she impacts your life on a regular basis. ... Read More

My 18-year-old daughter Jaye can't believe there's nothing in the Constitution that guarantees women equal rights. "I heard about the ERA, but I thought they passed it," she said. "That's ... Read More

When I sat down with my morning newspaper over breakfast today, I nearly lost my appetite reading what ESPN reporter Erin Andrews has been subjected to. Without her knowledge, she ... Read More

In a country that's facing a health care crisis (and a fight in Congress over how to fix it); a slow economy with thousands still losing their jobs; a Supreme ... Read More

In 48 hours, 1500 women who do what I do will converge upon Chicago for the world's largest conference for female bloggers. The theme of BlogHer '09 is "In Real Life" ... Read More

Michelle Obama is moving out of the house and garden phase of her First Ladyship and it's about time. Her focus has expanded beyond her own family to include all ... Read More

To paraphrase soon-to-be-confirmed Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor's now-famous "wise Latina" comment: I would hope that a wise syndicated columnist woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than ... Read More

If U.S. Representative Carolyn B. Maloney (D-New York) has her way, tomorrow will be a very significant day. If what she's hoping for comes to pass, tomorrow will go down in ... Read More

I completely missed every single day of Sonia Sotomayor's Senate confirmation hearings this week -- I was traveling across the country trying to manage the work-life balance thing. So I ... Read More

While the blogosphere went crazy earlier this week over Jack Welch's comment, "There's no such thing as a work-life balance. There are work-life choices, and you make them, and they ... Read More

When a woman describes herself as a mother, assumptions are automatically made. The first is that her children live with her. The second is that if they don't, she must ... Read More

Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor begins confirmation hearings today. And although they may be lengthy and intense, we can only hope that they will be civil. The same can't be ... Read More

Summer can be a tricky season for working mothers used to having their children in school. Childcare arrangements -- whether it's daycare, summer camp, or a steady babysitter -- are ... Read More

It's an unfortunate fact that military service members experience physical, mental and emotional hardships on the job. But once they're discharged, the aftermath of a tour of duty can bring ... Read More

Something arrived in my inbox this week that had the ring of an old wives' tale -- one of those tried and true remedies passed by word of mouth. NJM ... Read More

Patricia Williams is a Columbia law professor, a columnist for The Nation, a mother, a woman of color, and an astute observer of human nature who never fails to cut ... Read More

Let's face it, how much do we know about our seated Supreme Court justices? We may read historical pieces about their background or legal affairs articles analyzing their rulings. But ... Read More

Stunned by rumors of Alaska governor Sarah Palin's resignation, many of us turned to cable TV for confirmation. And that's where we found ourselves mired in the quicksand of old ... Read More

Michael Jackson broke down many barriers in the music industry. I know. I was there when one of them toppled at the college radio station I worked at. The AOR (album ... Read More

Alaska Governor Sarah Palin did some traveling in June. And one of the places she visited was Auburn, NY, the home of former Secretary of State William Seward, the mastermind ... Read More

Sarah Palin went out just like she came in -- unexpectedly, with a bang -- just moments ago. She's quitting as governor. Preceded by a long-winded laundry list of what the ... Read More

When complex concepts and situations are summed up in media or blogosphere shorthand, much is lost because context is everything. This is what's happening with the Supreme Court ruling in ... Read More

You don't need to be a big-name blogger to have smart, insightful thoughts about blogging. I'm talking about a recent post from Laura McKenna, who blogs under the intriguing name ... Read More

Former Republican VP candidate Sarah Palin has been refusing interviews right and left, but she's given Runner's World five pages worth of everything you could ever want to know about ... Read More

My 15-year-old daughter is kicking around the house at loose ends now that it's summer vacation. "Have you finished Breaking Dawn?" I asked her. (She's been reading the last book ... Read More