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• Whatever You Say, Senator

  Posted Thursday, March 27, 2008 8:28 PM By Melinda Henneberger
  
  Judith, I agree that the right messenger (at the right moment) could deliver most of your speech on gender. But maybe it would be easier for a woman to achieve liftoff. Anybody else remember Nicole Hollander 's Sylvia cartoon on the wage gap? From her Read More...
  Filed under: culture, day care, education, feminism, gender issues, Hillary Clinton, miscellaneous, prostitution, sex discrimination

• That's Why They're in Treatment ...

  Posted Wednesday, March 19, 2008 5:04 PM By Melinda Henneberger
  
  In a newsroom, you see right away that a high percentage of people who would like you to write about them — people with serious grievances of all kinds, against the cops or the city or the hospital or whatever — are at least a little bit crazy. Unfortunately, Read More...
  Filed under: Barack Obama, campaign 2008, Hillary Clinton, Jeremiah Wright, middle-aged women, race, sex discrimination

• Hillary's Moment, and the Problem of "Seeming" Sexism

  Posted Tuesday, January 08, 2008 10:41 AM By Meghan O'Rourke
  
  I thought Gloria Steinem's op-ed in the New York Times today performed an important service: It aptly—but gently—reminded us that it’s really hard to talk about sexism in this country. Partly that's because most of us, as Steinem points out, don’t like Read More...
  Filed under: '08 election, Hillary Clinton, sex discrimination

• What Are You Laughing At?

  Posted Wednesday, November 14, 2007 3:47 PM By Melinda Henneberger
  
  I'm with Emily . Despite my irrational and - until now, at least -- enduring soft spot for John McCain , laughing one's senatorial socks off when a colleague is called the B word is no less objectionable than if he had indulged a (theoretical) Obama hater Read More...
  Filed under: '08 election, gender stereotype, Hillary Clinton, sex discrimination

• Titties, Beer, and Breast Cancer

  Posted Wednesday, October 31, 2007 3:03 PM By Meghan O'Rourke
  
  Today's the last day of Breast Cancer Awareness Month and some bloggers are arguing that the ubiquitous " pink-ribbon " approach has gone too far . (See the second panel.) Over at The Assertive Cancer Patient you can find a critique of the relentless Read More...
  Filed under: breast cancer, sex discrimination

• Darren Mack Trial and Fathers Rights

  Posted Wednesday, October 24, 2007 9:59 AM By Dahlia Lithwick
  
  I must confess to a more than passing obsession with the Darren Mack trial, which gets under way today in Las Vegas . Mack stands accused of fatally stabbing his estranged wife Charla with their 7-year-old daughter upstairs in the home, then shooting Read More...
  Filed under: courts, law, sex discrimination

• Mukasey and Sex Discrimination

  Posted Wednesday, October 17, 2007 5:03 PM By Emily Bazelon
  
  At today's confirmaton hearing for Michael Mukasey, Bush's pick for attorney general, Sen. Dianne Feinstein asked questions about a disturbing ruling Mukasey made as a federal judge in the Southern District of New York. Here are the facts (I just looked Read More...
  Filed under: attorney general, Michael Mukasey, sex discrimination

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