Kimberly Gadette, Women's eNews. August 28, 2008. Bikini car washes, inexplicably sanctioned by many parents, teach girls the best way to turn a buck is by stripping down for men.
Erich Goode, Sirens Magazine. August 27, 2008. Most women in their 20s are far more concerned with education, career, and gaining life experience than with their single status.
Judy Waxman, The Women's Media Center. August 27, 2008. And with good reason: The nation's health care system is in crisis, and women are bearing the brunt of its failures.
Kara Alaimo, Women's eNews. August 25, 2008. Women reentering the workforce after taking time off to care for their families are getting help from career counselors and staffing firms.
Caroline Heldman, Ms. Magazine. August 14, 2008. This sort of self-objectification impairs women's body image, mental health, motor skills and even sex lives.
Shere Hite, On The Issues Magazine. August 12, 2008. Decades after the publication of the Hite Report on Female Sexuality, society still clings to outdated notions about women and sex.
Cynthia Kling, Huffington Post. August 6, 2008. Susan Squire on why it will take more than a couple of decades to transform a 5,000-year-old institution.
Michelle Chen, ColorLines. August 6, 2008. A third of female veterans are women of color. Three of them share their stories of systematic racial discrimination.
Allison Stevens, Women's eNews. August 2, 2008. Sixteen women who lost congressional races in 2006 are running again. This could mark a new era in the evolution of the female political candidate.
Melissa Silverstein, Huffington Post. July 31, 2008. Katherine Heigl regularly speaks up about sexism in Hollywood. For that, she is labeled ungrateful and her career has been declared dead.
Martha Rosenberg, AlterNet. July 31, 2008. Drugmaker Pfizer is claiming a new use for Viagra, which would conveniently treat the side effects of one of its other drugs.
Jennifer Hogg, Women's Media Center. July 25, 2008. Female service members often remain silent about the dangers they face. Now is the time to break the culture of fear that keeps them quiet.
Sue Katz, Consenting Adult. July 23, 2008. Gina Ogden's new book knocks down false assumptions about women’s sexual dysfunction by actually listening to women.
Marjorie Rosen, Women's eNews. July 21, 2008. A bountiful crop of summer movies starring women is outshining the usual male-driven action flicks. Let's hope studio heads get the message.
John DeVore, The Frisky. July 15, 2008. Overgrown frat boys, cheesy pick-up artists, overly sensitive cry-babies? What's going on with straight men's sexuality?
Kelly Nuxoll, Huffington Post. July 13, 2008. And he has help from Clinton, whose post-primary season message to her supporters is: Get over it and move on. I have.
Riane Eisler, The Wip. July 11, 2008. Until people (including progressives) stop thinking of "women's issues" secondary, the U.S. will continue on its path of poverty and war.
Lucinda Marshall, Feminist Peace Network AlterNet: Reproductive Justice and Gender. July 1, 2008. Southern Baptist preacher says sinful women rebel against their husbands' God-given authority.