Violence against women: a social disease with an identifiable cause

Cheryl Thomas, director of the Women’s Human Rights Project, writes at MinnPost: “As the news from Cleveland, Ohio, and the sexual assaults in the military continue to horrify us, I have the nagging sense that we are profoundly and dangerously naïve to b…

Surrogacy exposed

Kathleen Parker writes for The Washington Post: “Women’s reproductive rights have enjoyed a half-century or so of well-defined proponents and opponents, but the recently flourishing fertility industry, from egg harvesting to surrogacy, has produced fresh…

Racial Diversity Efforts Ebb for Elite Careers, Analysis Finds

Nelson D. Schwartz and Michael Cooper writes for The New York Times: “As a partner and chief diversity officer at Thompson & Knight, Pauline Higgins was not afraid to press the issue of hiring minorities at the 126-year-old Texas law firm. But when s…

Congressman: Women Should Be Forced To Give Birth To Fetuses With No Brain Function

Tara Culp-Ressler writes for ThinkProgress: “At a congressional committee hearing to discuss a proposed measure to criminalize abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy, a Texas lawmaker told a woman who made the difficult choice to terminate a non-viable pr…

Report: Nearly a quarter of all Americans struggle to afford food

Katie McDonough writes for Salon: “A new Pew Research report on the economies of emerging markets reveals that nearly a quarter of all Americans are struggling to afford food, putting the United States far out of step with other wealthy nations, as Pew n…