by Laura Sillerman | bio
Steve Martin is gone. The last of the Sensitive Men We Want to Rescue not only got married last weekend, he married a younger woman [...]

In her study of human rights, Marguerite Guzmán Bouvard, an author and resident scholar at Brandeis University’s Women’s Studies Research Center Scholars Program, has discovered
that time and time again, it [...]

To understand how gender affects differences in starting salaries and pay raises, Linda C. Babcock, professor of economics at Carnegie Mellon University, constructed a very simple but very revealing experiment. [...]

Catalyst, the nonprofit research organization that works to expand opportunities for women and business, has released a new study on gender stereotyping at work and the "double-bind dilemmas" for women. [...]

"If you take The Ice Storm and The Crucible and Nixon – and even
Pleasantville, to an extent – you have the wife and mother who is holding
things together while also [...]

A weekly look at menopause and related issues in the news …
From the L.A. Times: "Patient treatment records from a large HMO show that the recent decline
in breast cancer rates [...]

Before the steam iron, before the vacuum cleaner, we had vibrators.
They debuted in the early 1880s as a medical treatment for "hysteria."
They were subsequently introduced as a home medical appliance [...]

by Faith Childs
Conventional wisdom holds that we take to the lake house, beach or mountains with a pile of summer reading — light fare designed to entertain, to provide [...]

by Liz Smith
Hooray for the good doctor, who yesterday got it right in her critique of the audience that attended Wagner’s "Der Ring des Nibelungen" at Lincoln Center wearing shorts [...]

"I think it’s terrific we’re up here arguing about who’s going to be
better for women, because isn’t that a nice change for everybody to
hear" — Sen. Hillary Clinton on who’s [...]