Men like Arnold Schwarzenegger and Dominique Strauss-Kahn have been abusing women and cheating on their wives since the invention of wedlock—but now more women are making them pay the tough consequences, writes Leslie Bennetts.
Hundreds of feminist activists from around the country will gather in Tampa, Fla., for the National NOW Conference from June 24-26, 2011. This year’s conference theme, Daring to Dream: Building a Feminist Future, is centered on advancing the principles that have been steering feminism all along: equality, fairness, opportunity, non-violence and empowerment.
The Associated Press reports: “Though rape is a problem of deep concern to the U.S. military, its health plan doesn’t cover abortions for victims who become pregnant — a policy that indignant critics are now pushing to change.”
Women’s Media Center Cofounder Robin Morgan on surrealism and sexual predators.
Anna Holmes writes for The Washington Post: “The policy against women assigned to ground combat units has been in effect since the beginning of the U.S. military. . . . But as circumstances change — asymmetric wars in Iraq and Afghanistan; higher number…
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