Soraya Chemaly of Fem2.0 asks: “What messages are we sending to girls and boys about agency, merit, entitlement, fairness, the value of education and pay?” She discusses the Paycheck Fairness Act, which was blocked this Tuesday by Senate Republicans.
Megan Carpentier reports for Raw Story on the Physicians For Reproductive Choice And Health (PRCH) awards: “‘I think the physician’s perspective is extremely important, and one that we don’t hear too often in the media,’ [says] actress and [activist] Mar…
Maura Dolan writes for the Los Angeles Times: “California’s legal battle over same-sex nuptials is now headed to the U.S. Supreme Court, the final chapter in four years of litigation over the constitutionality of Proposition 8’s ban on gay marriage.”
Anna North on the media gender gap for BuzzFeed: “A recent study by the Op-Ed Project found that while women wrote half or more of the editorials last year on gender, family, and style, their share of op-eds on politics and the economy were worryingly small.”
The editors of The New York Times report: “Last week, [three Republican senators] voted with nearly all the Democrats on the Armed Services Committee to lift a cruel and insulting law that requires female service members who are victims of rape or incest…
