A useful infographic on what the Supreme Court decisions on marriage equality will mean in real life. LinkUp aims to teach girls, not just adult women, about sexual and reproductive health and rights . Are we still seriously talking about why people hate Anne Hathaway ? Gender-based violence also harms economic development . Duh. How to create a perfect wife . Whaaaaaaaaat. Women boost [...]

Photo Credit: Marc Bryan Brown / Women in the World I spent Friday at the  Women in the World Summit  in New York, Tina Brown’s love letter to the women and girls (and the occasional man) advocating for equality and progress around the globe. The event, hosted by The Daily Beast/Newsweek, drew 2,500 people to the swanky [...]

The artist  Molly Crabapple shared her extraordinary personal story on Vice, writing with searing honesty about her abortion. This essay joins a canon of brave and brutal stories. An excerpt:

Compulsively, I searched out abortion stories online. Women for whom it had meant nothing. Women for whom it had meant everything. Most of all, women who were not sorry. I [...]

Baroness Margaret Thatcher, the original “Iron Lady,” died of a stroke Monday . She was 87 years old. Thatcher, a staunch conservative, made history as the first female prime minister of Britain, elected to the position in 1975 after famously stating, while serving as education secretary: ”I don’t think there will be a woman prime minister in my [...]

Virginia’s Attorney General and Republican gubernatorial candidate Ken Cuccinelli wants to  reinstate a ban  on oral and anal sex. An awesome mom petitions Mattel for more multicultural Barbie accessories for her daughter. In defense of being a girly feminist . The South Wind Women’s Center will open in Wichita, Kan. , the first abortion clinic in the city since Dr. George Tiller was [...]

Image via The Hairpin. Answer: This is a stupid question. New York magazine’s profile of Nora Lum, aka Awkwafina , details the Korean-Chinese-American rapper’s rise from her hilarious ” My Vag ” track last year to the harder ” NYC Bitche$ ,” which was released in March. The article’s headline asks: “Can an Asian Woman Be Taken Seriously in Rap?” The piece dabbles [...]

In a stunning victory for immigration advocates, the Associated Press Stylebook, the bible of grammar and style for journalists in the U.S., will no longer describe people who live in a country illegally as “illegal immigrants.” The reasoning is one that activists have been making for years, with campaigns such as “Drop the I-Word” : People are [...]

On the heels of some good gender byline news , The New York Times Dealbook ran a special section on women in business  that had a nearly 50-50 split on bylines. Even better news: For the most part, the stories move beyond the rehashed lean-in-have-it-all conversation that has dominated the news cycle regarding working women. Instead, “Women in a [...]

Friday Feminist Fuck Yeah: Paid sick leave is coming to NYC! Wired tackles misandry, feminism, and Donglegate. Oh look, another violent gendered online campaign against a woman doing good: In this case, the female reporter who exposed a racist New York City EMT . On being a female monk . 6 things that happened while y’all were preoccupied with gay marriage. [...]

Sheryl Sandberg says in Lean In that it’s cool to cry at work. Anne Kreamer reports in her book  It’s Always Personal: Emotion in the New Workplace (2011) that 41 percent of women and 9 percent of men had cried in front of others at work and it had not impacted them negatively. Dr. Peggy Drexler, in a recent article for [...]

Tim McDaniel , a 10th-grade science teacher in Dietrich, Idaho, is being investigated by the Idaho State Board of Education for ” possible controversial lesson content .” The content? Sex ed . The reason it’s being taught in science class? Because the school’s health teacher isn’t comfortable teaching students about birth control and STDs. “Since I started working here about 17 [...]

Friend of the site Tanya Paperny on male privilege in literature. A Japanese company argues it doesn’t have to abide by New York City’s law that an equal number of bathrooms be provided for male and female employees because they don’t hire many female employees . New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is still against gay marriage, but *might* [...]

New York Magazine’s recent cover story “The Retro Wife”  has raised hackles here, there, and everywhere. At Feministing, we shared the smart thoughts of Shannon Drury of The Radical Housewife yesterday. But this is hardly the first time a prominent woman writer has tackled the “opt out” subject. A decade ago, Lisa Belkin , now of the Huffington Post, wrote a feature story for the [...]

A few weeks ago I was running around the SXSW Interactive conference in Austin, supporting a book I’ve been working on for the past year. The book, The Athena Doctrine , will come out on April 16, and I’m pretty excited about it. It’s a labor of love — after months of research and travel, my partners [...]

How not to run a sexist publication . It’s not that hard. Wal-Mart to double the amount of merchandise it carries from women suppliers and invest $20 billion in women’s businesses in the next three years. Wonder if they are also going to treat their own workers right ? Rape is on the rise in the Democratic Republic of Congo , one [...]

In a study of modern parenthood , the Pew Research Center has found that working mothers spend more hours both at paid work and at child care than they did in 1965. They are spending significantly less time doing housework. Working fathers, on the other hand, are devoting fewer hours to paid work but far more doing [...]

In a moving tribute to his son Will, who is gay, Ohio Sen. Rob Portman announced his support of marriage equality. The celebrated conservative senator, once on the short list to become Mitt Romney’s running mate in 2012 , writes in a column published today in The Columbus Dispatch :

I have come to believe that if two people are [...]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPKKQnijnsM This video, created by YouTube user “Politizane,” aptly demonstrates not only the astonishing wealth inequality in the United States, but the great yawning divide between what Americans believe is the distribution of wealth in this country and what actually exists. Note: the idealized version of the wealth curve is the same across partisan lines. (No [...]

The World Bank surveyed more than 4000 women, men, and children in 20 countries on social and gender norms last year. The results? We’re more similar than we are different. In one notable section of the study, The World Bank asked girls and boys to define what makes a “good” girl. Unsurprisingly, being helpful at home, obedient, [...]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Fl6pN0nlgE&feature=youtu.be Twenty-five musicians from around the world, including Anoushka Shankar, Idan Raichel, and Buika, came together to collaborate on “One Woman,” a song designed to inspire listeners to fight for gender equality globally. The song was originally written for the launch of UN Women in 2011. The organization will release the track on March 8, International Women’s Day. [...]