Sex-selective Abortion Bans: A Disingenuous New Strategy

RH Reality Check’s Sneha Barot on PRENDA, which failed to pass in the House but still received 246 affirmative votes: “While governments in Asia grapple with the serious consequences of entrenched son preference and lopsided sex ratios, antiabortion lawm…

Appeals Court Rules Against Federal Marriage Act

Katharine Seeyle reports for The New York Times: “A federal appeals court ruled unanimously Thursday that the Defense of Marriage Act, passed by Congress in 1996, discriminates against married same-sex couples by denying them the same federal benefits af…

Euro MPs back quotas to get more women into top jobs

BBC News reports: “The European Parliament has backed calls for quotas to put more women into company boardrooms, if member states are deemed too slow to act.”

What really lies behind the ‘war on women’

The Guardian’s Naomi Wolf discusses: “Are women suddenly running rampant in the streets by the millions, threatening society in unexpected ways? You would surely think so by looking at the pattern that is visible across the nation: state by state, a well…

The Girl Epidemic

The Huffington Post interviews photographer Indrani on her work on the video campaign The Girl Epidemic, which is “set in the slums of India” and “uses jarring footage of a social reality in which girls are treated as an infectious disease.”