Single, childless and want work-life balance? How taboo

The Washington Post columnist Jena McGregor writes: “The Yahoo no-work-from-home brouhaha had working moms up in arms last week. Professional women with children had been dealt a blow, they said. Oh, and as one writer reminded us, it’s an issue for worki…

Why is Michelle Bachelet Playing into the Holy See’s Hands?

Jacqueline Nolley Echegaray of Catholics for Choice writes in RH Reality Check: “The opening day of the recent United Nations-sponsored Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) brought the worrying news that Michelle Bachelet, under-secretary-general and…

Sheryl Sandberg’s valuable advice

Ruth Marcus writes for The Washington Post: “Sheryl Sandberg has burst into tears in the office, more than once. She has failed at such crucial Mommy Tasks as remembering to dress her son in a green shirt for St. Patrick’s Day — inwardly seething at the…

At the UN, Twenty Years of Backlash to ‘Women’s Rights Are Human Rights’

Barbara Crossette at The Nation writes: “Socially conservative American Catholics and like-minded evangelical Protestants who have led a decades-long campaign against the rights of women in the United States are now gearing up for a season of battles on…

The Rape of Petty Officer Blumer: Inside the military’s culture of sex abuse, denial and cover-up

Sabrina Rubin Erdely writes for Rolling Stone: “The first thing Petty Officer 2nd Class Rebecca Blumer realized upon waking was that she was freezing cold and naked. The second thing was that her body ached all over. Blumer groggily scanned the unfamilia…