Equal “Pay” for Equal Work Hits the Blogosphere

In a medium where the only things that should matter are your writing skills and your level of tech-competency, why are we still confronting gender stereotypes? Dads have to do laundry and change diapers, just as much as moms. And moms would like to document their children’s activities and read to them from an e-book as well.

NOW President on President Obama’s All-Male Athletic Outings: ‘It’s Troubling’

ABC’s White House Senior Correspondent Jake Tapper blogs about NOW President Terry O’Neill’s response to President Obama’s all-male athletic outings that leave women out in the decision-making process: “We asked Terry O’Neill, the new president of the National Organization for Women, what she thought of those Democratic women and others quietly complaining about a “boy’s Read more …

Success Is in Her DNA

Liza Mundy reports for the Washington Post that “twenty-five years ago, as an exceptionally gifted graduate student at the University of California at Berkeley, [the Nobel Peace Prize winner Carol] Greider, now 48, visited her lab to check an experiment, and discovered evidence of an enzyme called telomerase.”