Gender equity-related topics in the news from May 30 – June 13
- Someday, a woman will break the White House barrier. Whoever that is will owe Clinton’s 2008 run a huge debt.
- Women who find Clinton’s candidacy somehow tainted by the fact that she derives power from her husband’s presidency fail to understand traditional paths to female political power.
- Linda Hirshman writes in the Washington Post that feminism hasn’t realized its full potential yet due to divisions of race, class, and age.
- Wellesley College student Sarah Odell explains why feminism still matters.
- Sergeant Barbara Ospina is committed to fighting the war on terror and the battle for women’s rights in Afghanistan.
- A young Iranian activist says that he has become the first man sentenced for participating in a campaign to change laws that discriminate against women.
- A Smith College professor focuses on the ways in which sexism and racisim played themselves out in the life of activist Ida B. Wells.
- Every 2 minutes someone in the U.S. is sexually assaulted. But only six percent of rapists will ever go to jail.
- A prominent women’s rights lawyer has been sued for sexual harassment by a former female office manager at his Manhattan firm.
- Four women were inducted into the International Women’s Sports Hall of Fame at the new Sports Museum of America.
- Columnist Lya Wodraska relishes the success of female athletes in traditionally male-dominated sports.
- In 1970, one in 27 high school girls played a varsity sport. Today, that figure is two in five, with professional leagues a product of this growth surge.
- Proponents of sex education programs that focus on encouraging abstinence are launching a nationwide campaign aimed at enlisting 1 million parents to support the controversial approach.
- Writer Robert Engelman explains in a new book how allowing women to control their reproduction can lead to a more sustainable planet.
- Employers are falling all over themselves to vie for the most “sophisticated, accomplished, entitled” graduates ever produced by American colleges.
- The Vatican announced that it will excommunicate anyone who would attempt to ordain a woman as a priest and the woman herself.
