Shahreen Abedin writes for CNN Health, “…Women are nearly twice as likely as men to suffer from major depression. They are three times as likely to attempt suicide, and they experience anxiety disorders two to three times more often than men. While these statistics are not new, their importance is generally underplayed.”
Jennifer Finney Boylan asks in the New York Times, “Can we have a future in which we are more concerned with the love a family has than with the sometimes unanswerable questions of gender and identity? “
Paul Campos writes for the Daily Beast, “Justice may be blind, but not when it comes to weight. Paul Campos reports on the bizarre campaign to find a woman to replace David Souter on the High Court—as long as she’s thin.”
Shelby Knox writes for RH Reality Check, “An entire generation of American teens has been confused, misinformed and endangered by abstinence-only-until-marriage programs like these. They are not just paid for by the federal government; states can’t use these dollars for anything else.”
Helen Benedict writes in The Nation, “The military has been slow to recognize women as real soldiers, unable to shake stereotypes of women who have no business fighting and cannot be relied upon in battle.”
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