Report: Many girls view sexual assault as normal behavior

Katie McDonough writes for Salon: “According to sociologist Heather Hlavka, many of the young people she interviewed viewed these incidents as a normal part of life. One interview subject told researchers, ‘They grab you, touch your butt and try to, li

Phyllis Schlafly Claims Women Paid The Same As Men Won’t Find Husbands

Shadee Ashtari writes for the Huffington Post: “[Phyllis] Schlafly concluded that the best way to empower women ‘is to improve job prospects for the men in their lives, even if that means increasing the so-called pay gap.'”

The Return Of The Back-Alley Abortion

Laura Basett writes for the Huffington Post: “In addition to pushing women across the border into Mexico in search of misoprostol or other abortion solutions, the dwindling number of clinics in Texas and elsewhere has also revived the concept of ‘misca

The New Gay Orthodoxy

Frank Bruni writes for the New York Times: “[I]n a great many circles, endorsement of same-sex marriage has rather suddenly become nonnegotiable. Expected. Assumed. Proof of a baseline level of enlightenment and humanity. Akin to the understanding that

The Truth About the Pay Gap

The New York Times Editorial Board writes: “[I]n representing the full-time wages of a working woman against that of a full-time working man, [the 77-cent figure] reflects overt discrimination as well as more nuanced gender-based factors, like the fact