What about Rob Portman’s daughter?

Irina Carmon writes for Salon: “The analogies started rolling out minutes after Ohio publications went live with the news that Senator Rob Portman now supports marriage equality because of his gay son. ‘Rob Portman comes out as vegetarian after watching…

The Steubenville Defense Will Center on Date Rape Not Existing

Alexander Abad-Santos writes for The Atlantic Wire: “The very public trial of the very publicly shamed ‘rape crew’ will begin on Wednesday in Steubenville, Ohio, and despite pre-trial testimony from three as-yet-untried high-school athletes who say they…

Bring Women’s Human Rights Home

Leonara Lapidus writes at the ACLU’s “Blog of Rights”: “On this International Women’s Day, March 8, we call on the United States government to apply the same human rights principles it preaches for women elsewhere around the world, to women here at home.…

WOMEN LEAD: An International Women’s Day Message from Uganda

Celia Tusiime Kakande writes for Global Health Impact: “For most of my life, women in Uganda—as in most countries—were treated as inferior to men. Girls were less likely to be educated than their brothers, and had little control over the direction of the…