Lost in Space Race: Female Pilots

Writing for USA Today, Dan Vergano reports: “Women had the ‘right stuff,’ too, back in the ’60s. But the data on their performance tests were buried in the Mad Men era, and it was two decades before there was an American female astronaut.”

NOW’s New President Takes On Men Behaving Badly

David Crary of the Associated Press in New York interviews NOW President Terry O’Neill on what she’s done since being elected as president in June: “Men behaving badly. It wasn’t a topic that Terry O’Neill expected to find high on her agenda as new president of the National Organization for Women, but she’s tackling it Read more …

Letterman Tainted His Workplace

Canada’s Gazette newspaper featured an editorial about Letterman’s workplace behavior is a set-back for women in the workplace: “What Letterman did wasn’t illegal. To many people, it wasn’t immoral, either. But for a lot of women in the workforce, it brought back the bad old days when women were routinely viewed as sexual objects, easy Read more …

Letterman: No Laughing Matter?

Watch NOW President Terry O’Neill talking about the Letterman controversy on a story that aired on ABC’s World News Tonight with Charles Gibson: “Some people aren’t laughing about the late night funnyman’s recent revelations.”

Women vs. Letterman

Watch NOW President Terry O’Neill on CNN Headline News’ Joy Behar Show. Terry talks about how the Letterman controversy has brought up workplace issues for women: “NOW President Terry O’Neill tells HLN’s Joy Behar that David Letterman is fostering a ‘toxic workplace.’”