Martha Burk writes for CNN: “Well, look at that. The boys at Augusta National Golf Club finally came into the 20th century, only 12 years after the millennium. With the admission of Condoleezza Rice and businesswoman Darla Moore into their previously mal…
Lynn Paltrow writes on RH Reality Check: “The fact that rape can result in pregnancy is not only confirmed by scientists and by the lived experience of women, it is so well known that rape and forced pregnancy are used as conscious and deliberate tools o…
Rep. Todd Akin (R-Mo.), who is running against Democratic incumbent Claire McCaskill for Senate, didn’t make this idea up that women who are the victims of “legitimate rape” are unlikely to become pregnant. (Akin was trying to defend his belief that abor…
Sally Jenkins writes for The Washington Post: “The phrase running around the Olympic Village on the last day of the London Games was, ‘If women were a country . . .’ The phrase will be one of the legacies of the fortnight, certainly more last…
Irin Carmon writes on Salon.com: “Candy Crowley’s selection today as the first female moderator of a presidential debate in 20 years is highly symbolic. It’s a sign of how systemic discrimination can happen — passively and likely without outright malice…