essentialestrogen.com

Public awareness of outrage over any given topic can be best gauged by spoofs. That’s right, when Jon Stewart or, say, The Onion picks up on the fact that a significant group of people are feeling slighted (and that the public is sufficiently tuned in as to understand humor on the subject) then you know [...]

A research article published Tuesday indicates that more than half of female sex workers in Canada are subject to gender-based violence, and that it could be decreased by decriminalizing the activity. Kate Shannon, of the British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS and lead author on the research, reports that 57 percent of the 237 [...]

Busy today, but I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to give a quick link to the Geek Feminist Blog’s excellent post on “Ten Tips for Getting More Women Speakers.” While the advice is geared toward technological conferences, there is a great deal of information that can be cross-fitted into any seminar/conference/lecture series that is being [...]

I have written previously about my brother, Jimmy Lee Campbell, who was drafted into the Army during the Vietnam War and died of wounds he received in battle there. Just last weekend my children and I had opportunity to visit the Moving Wall, a traveling half-size replica of the Vietnam Memorial, when it was on [...]

Judge Sonia Sotomayor has been confirmed to the U.S. Supreme Court by the U.S. Senate in a 68 to 31 vote. She will be the third woman and the first Latina to serve in this capacity. Harkin’s statement: “Mr. President, I am proud to support the confirmation of Judge Sonia Sotomayor as the next Associate [...]