For Women’s History Month I’m going to include some brief histories of famous women you may not have heard of.  The first of these is Christine de Pizan.
Christine de Pizan has been called Europe’s first professional woman writer. Born in 1365, married at 15 and widowed at 24, she turned to writing to support her [...]

Here is a Spanish short film by Xavi Sala about  the discrimination young Muslim women face in a so-called “free” Europe where everything but religion is tolerated in the name of freedom.

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Back in November, the Associated Press reported on the case of Alexis Hutchinson, an Army cook and single mother who refused to deploy with her unit to Afghanistan because she had no one to care for her then 10-month-old son, Kamani. Spc. Hutchinson was arrested and charged with offenses that could have led to a [...]

In 1970 Alix Kates Shulman wrote an essay titled “A Marriage Agreement” and instantly became one of the voices of the burgeoning Women’s Liberation Movement. She was ten years into her second marriage when she came up with a set of rules that she and her husband agreed upon to make their relationship more equitable.  [...]

South Carolina’s Lt. Governor Andre Bauer made some totally asinine statements at a town hall meeting the other day. Because I can’t believe what he said, I have to quote it verbatim:
“My grandmother was not a highly educated woman but she told me as a small child to quit feeding stray animals. You know why? [...]