Telling women to get a gun is not rape prevention

Zerlina Maxwell writes for Feministing: “Giving every woman a gun is not rape prevention. If a woman chooses to go out and buy a legal gun for self-defense, that’s fine. But that shouldn’t be confused with actual prevention, which is really about stopp…

To stem violence against women, men must step up

Donald McPherson, a member of the College Football Hall of Fame, writes for CNN: “A drive to end domestic violence, led by men. It’s an idea whose time has come, again and again; some men have been pushing it for decades. But now many are hearing the cal…

Unequal treatment of women starts with employers

A letter to the editor from Missouri NOW president Jamie Tomek and Columbia Area NOW president Mary Mosley to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch: “As longtime feminist activists, we found the Feb. 28 editorial ‘Women united’ upsetting. The tone was condescending and accusatory, beginning with accusations of ‘waves of bra-burning’ and ‘contempt for men,’ and ending Read more …