All Hail the King!...

Photo by Jane Hahn/Getty Images. For your weekend reading pleasure, I’m sharing this amazing, inspirational long feature from the Washington Post Magazine. “All The King’s Men” is the story of Peggielene Bartels, a Washington-area secretary who was recently crowned Nana Amuah...

Hope And Change In India...

Indian women celebrate after the Women's Reservation Bill is passed. The world’s largest democracy made history this week when Indian lawmakers approved a historic bill that would set aside one-third of all seats in India’s parliament for women. Only 59 women were elected to the current...

Happy International Women’s Day!...

To our readers–and all women–around the globe. Today marks the 99th such observation, although the roots of International Women’s Day go back even further, to 1908, when 15,000 New York women marched for their labor rights (and my little socialist heart sings!). This year’s theme...

Why The Future Will Be Better...

I’ve been reading  Sonic Boom: Globalization at Mach Speed by Gregg Easterbrook, which has me feeling better in many ways about the world we live in. Easterbrook explains that despite the recent global recession, the future of humankind is definitely on an upswing: No matter how crazy and chaotic...

Commenter Ocean_Breeze On Being A Woman ...

This guest post comes courtesy of Ocean_Breeze, a Senior Airman in the US Air Force. I thought this post would be a good perspective for those who have never been in–nor wished to be in–the military. I wanted to talk about what life’s like for your fellow sisters in the services–the...

I’ll have an Americano with a doub...

If you thought Joe’s was bad, you’ll get a real kick out of Java Divas, a new coffee shop in Pasadena, Maryland. NBC4 in DC ran a little feature on the operation tonight, which caught my attention. It’s a drive-through coffee shop staffed by scantily-clad hotties. They serve drinks...

Manties!...

Ew. Via Tzpkcht Kzmsrskstlrz @ Flickr. I have, on any number of occasions, bought the Dude a pair of drawers.  Because they were funny (boxers with robots on them!) or sexy (mind your own beeswax) or whatever.  In doing this, I’m part of the vast majority of women who are the primary knicker-shoppers...

Bloggin’ is Awesome!...

Social networking sites like Facebook have provided, along with the chance to get back in touch with people you haven’t seen in 10 or 20 years, an entirely new realm of the baffling, weird, and offensive that in early days would have flown under our radars.  I’m filing this one under...

Helpful Terms, Unhelpful Tips?...

We got a nifty link from reader Hill Rat yesterday (thanks, brah) that’s right in my wheelhouse:  its about a research project focusing on gender bias, particularly as it relates to the academy. First, check out this Gender Bias Bingo Card.  Not funny, like the original Anti-Feminist Bingo Card,...

Honorary Harpy: Lemah Gbowee...

Lemah Gbowee grew up in Monrovia and was ending her secondary education when civil war broke out in Liberia.  Unable to attend college, she became a social worker who counseled ex-child soldiers who had been conscripted to fight for Charles Taylor’s National Patriotic Front of Liberia. The wars,...

What say you, Larry Summers?...

A hearty congratulations to Elinor Ostrom, who was awarded the Nobel in Economic Science today! She is the first woman to win this award, and the fifth woman to win a Nobel this year. She is being honored along with fellow American Oliver Williamson of the University of California, Berkeley. Ostrom...

Two Women Awarded the Nobel in Medicine...

I’m not a betting woman, but I have friends who are.  And they wager on a variety of things, including who will win the annual Nobel awards.  Yesterday, the prize for medical research was awarded, and while they might have had the inside track, I was totally surprised and thrilled to learn that...