Sheryl Sandberg’s valuable advice

Ruth Marcus writes for The Washington Post: “Sheryl Sandberg has burst into tears in the office, more than once. She has failed at such crucial Mommy Tasks as remembering to dress her son in a green shirt for St. Patrick’s Day — inwardly seething at the…

“We Saw Your Boobs” celebrates rape on film

Katie McDonough for Salon writes: “Seth MacFarlane has made millions off being an immature man-child. In fact, it was the success of his particular brand of gross-out offensive humor (served with a smile, of course) that got him the Oscar gig in the firs…

Betty Friedan and black women: Is it time for a second look?

Michelle Bernard writes in an opinion piece at The Washington Post: “Today, I would argue that Friedan’s unintentional exclusion of African American women in ‘The Feminine Mystique’ was in fact a gift because it might be what led to the development of a…

Obama needs some binders of women

In an opinion piece at The Washington Post, Ruth Marcus writes: “About all those white guys: What a shame. Not an outrage, but a shame. The face of power that President Obama has chosen to present to the country and the world with his second-term Cabinet…

Gerda Lerner, a Feminist and Historian, Dies at 92

William Grimes, for The New York Times, writes in an obituary for feminist and historian Gerda Lerner: “In the mid-1960s, armed with a doctorate in history from Columbia University and a dissertation on two abolitionist sisters from South Carolina, Dr. L…