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, like, touch you in the front, and run away, but it’s okay, I mean … I never Read more …
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.’”
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 ‘miscarriage management’ — an idea that similarly harkens back to pre-Roe days, when doctors would Read more …
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 all people, regardless of race or color, warrant the same rights and respect.”
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 that women are disproportionately concentrated in the lowest-paying fields and not well-represented in higher-paying fields. Of Read more …