Mimi Abramovitz writes for Women’s eNews: “In making false statements about Obama’s welfare policies, there’s a good chance that Romney was using welfare–the program that helps single mothers, many of them women of color, to get by–as a race card to wi…
Alix Masters writes on the Ms. Magazine blog: “Who said grrrl power is dead? Three high school sophomores from Montclair, N.J. . . . took their power to the next level when they created a Change.org petition calling for a woman moderator in the national…
Shaila Dewan writes for The New York Times: “Single women are one of the country’s fastest-growing demographic groups — there are 1.8 million more now than just two years ago. They make up a quarter of the voting-age population nationally, and even more…
The Portland Press Herald (Morning Sentinel Staff) reports: “Three teens are heading to New York City today to be interviewed about their efforts to change the way media portray girls and women.”
Rinku Sen writes for Colorlines.com: “Murderous insanity can infect any community, and maybe that leads people to call these senseless acts of random violence. But of course they are neither senseless nor random, and the vast majority of such incidents h…