‘Essure Problems’: A Contraceptive Device Creates an E-Sisterhood of Suffering
(Shutterstock)(Shutterstock) S ince 2002, Essure has been marketed as a permanent birth control method for women that is convenient and can be performed in their own doctor’s office. The procedure is...
View ArticleMasterpiece Cakeshop, the Sequel: the Baker Is Back in Court
AP Photo/David Zalubowski Baker Jack Phillips, owner of Masterpiece Cakeshop in Lakewood, Colorado J ack Phillips, the Colorado baker who recently won his Supreme Court case over whether he could...
View ArticleEvery Woman in America Is Watching
(AP Photo/Evan Vucci)(AP Photo/Evan Vucci) Senator Orrin Hatch and Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh on July 11, 2018 M ore than a quarter century ago, a university professor named Anita Hill was...
View ArticleI Know Why Sexually Assaulted Women Resist Coming Forward; I’ve Been There
AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh, testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill. A t first glance, the willingness of the...
View ArticleMcDonald’s Workers Strike to Demand Response to Sexual Harassment Charges
AP Photo/Richard Vogel Striking McDonald's workers carry a banner and march towards a McDonald's in south Los Angeles on Tuesday, September 18, 2018. trickle-downers_54.jpg O n Tuesday, women workers...
View ArticleTrump and Kavanaugh: Sexualized Dominance and Executive Power
(Oliver Contreras/SIPA USA via AP Images)(Oliver Contreras/SIPA USA via AP Images) President Trump shakes hands with Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh on July 9, 2018, at the White House. I t...
View ArticleThursday’s Anti-Kavanaugh March
(Regan Jameson/Miho Watabe) The march against Kavanaugh's nomination passes the U.S. Capitol building on Thursday, October 4. O n Thursday afternoon, thousands of protesters marched through the streets...
View Article#MeToo and Women's Economic Empowerment
(Ashlee Rezin/Chicago Sun-Times via AP)(Ashlee Rezin/Chicago Sun-Times via AP) Hotel workers, represented by Unite Here Local 1, picket outside the Palmer House Hilton on September 7, 2018, in Chicago....
View ArticleWomen Bolster the Democrats’ Midwestern Prospects
Meet Nicole Breadon. She’s 46, a lifelong resident of Clarkston, a town of fewer than 1,000 that’s become one of Detroit’s distant exurbs. Her husband Todd grew up in Clarkston, too. Breadon, a sous...
View ArticlePlanned Parenthood — the New Election-Day Giant
Most people either weren’t home or were ignoring the Saturday-morning knocks on their doors. But the Planned Parenthood volunteers, their pink hats and T-shirts contrasting brightly with the blue-gray...
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