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…

A President Who’ll Cut Social Security – And Liberals Who Love Him Too Much

Richard Eskow writes in a blog post for the Campaign for America’s Future: “The spectacle of a supposedly liberal President repeatedly and needlessly trying to cut Social Security is enough to bring a reasonable, economically literate person to the point…

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 condescend

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.…