Lisa Bennett, Greater Good. December 2, 2008. Not all heroes are burly men. New research shows that many women take risks and sacrifice for others as much -- if not more -- than men.
Jane Costello, Women's eNews. December 2, 2008. When the New Hampshire Senate convenes in January, women will run the show, forming the first female legislative majority in the nation.
Marie Cocco, Washington Post Writers Group. November 21, 2008. Unlike Ah-nold, no woman will ever burst into high political office without a lick of experience. And women with credentials don't fare much better.
Stephane Dunn, Ms. Magazine. November 15, 2008. The women in Blaxploitation pics didn't accept victimization and often fought for causes larger than themselves. Imagine what they would do today.
Theresa Braine, Women's eNews. November 12, 2008. Women's groups are already looking ahead and setting the agenda with goals like fixing health care and rescinding the global gag rule.
Adele Stan, Media Consortium. October 26, 2008. The Pentagon sucks up 54 percent of the federal budget. Yet politicians rarely challenge it. It may take women to fix our defense priorities.
Joseph Mayton, Manar Ammar, Women News Network. October 21, 2008. The streets of Cairo continue to be unsafe for women despite activist attempts to draw attention to verbal and physical abuse in public spaces.
Betty Brink, Ms. Magazine. October 20, 2008. Women inmates die and suffer from medical neglect in a prison system that is much more of a threat to them than they are to anyone else.
Melissa McEwan, Shakesville AlterNet: War on Iraq. October 14, 2008. "It's not a promise to allow women to serve equally, but the recognition that women are already in serving in combat."
Vanessa Richmond, The Tyee. October 10, 2008. The word "desperation" has disappeared from the definition of "cougar"; words like smart, successful and funny have taken its place.
Carol Jenkins, Huffington Post. September 30, 2008. For four Presidential cycles -- 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008 -- the networks have deemed no woman journalist "worthy" of moderating a post-primary debate.
Mimi Abramovitz, Women's eNews. September 25, 2008. Why is it that the rich and reckless accept "welfare" for themselves while rejecting it for those who need it most, particularly woman.
Helen Benedict, In These Times. September 13, 2008. The Culture of misogyny and illegal war acts in the military fuels sexual violence against women in uniform.
Carole Joffe, Gloria Feldt, AlterNet. September 8, 2008. John McCain's choice of Palin only intensifies concerns about his responsiveness to serious issues facing most working women.
