I just saw something on the ABC Evening News that drives home the stupidity and cruelty of paying women less than men. A middle-aged woman with a 7-year-old daughter is struggling to keep her family afloat while caring for her 53-year-old husband plagued with early onset Alzheimer’s. The problem–other than emotional chaos? She earns one-fifth [...]

Recy Taylor was a 24-year-old wife and mother when she was gang raped by seven white men in 1944. They, like she, lived in Abbeville, Ala., and continued to live there after two all-white, all-male grand juries failed to indict them–even after they admitted to authorities they’d assaulted and dumped her on a rural road.
Taylor, [...]

“Amazing” is often overused, but author and New York Times columnist Gail Collins uses it powerfully in her book title, When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present.
An enlightening and energizing read, Collins opens with the tale of 28-year-old Lois Rabinowitz who in 1960 was thrown out of [...]

I just watched the video of Cebu Pacific airline’s female flight attendants dancing through a demonstration of safety guidelines. Yes, literally dancing to Lady Gaga’s “Just Dance” and Katy Perry’s “California Gurls.” What’s the keyword here? Uh huh–female.
Maybe all the budget Philippine airline’s male flight attendants were out sick the day of rehearsal (you can [...]