Catherine Price of Salon’s Broadsheet reads the "Shouts and Murmurs" section of The New Yorker, but she doesn’t find it very funny. Nor does she find amusing Benjamin Cohen’s findings about the gender breakdown of the bylines: "Out of the 133 authors of features under the Shouts and Murmurs banner (in the modern, post-1992 era), [...]

Forbes has released its annual list of the world’s 100 most powerful women, and for the second year in a row, Angela Merkel, chancellor of Germany, is ranked No. 1. The highest ranked U.S. woman is Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, at No. 4, followed by Pepsico Chairman and CEO Indra K. Nooyi at No. [...]

by Agnes Krup | bio I was 15 when I first came to the United States in 1978. I was in an exchange program where a bunch of kids from my school in Hamburg, Germany, hosted a group of sophomores from a high school on Cape Cod for a few weeks and then went for [...]

Anne Kreamer, a contributor to More magazine and Yahoo.com, stopped coloring her hair three years ago and has written a book about it, which The New York Times dissects in today’s Style section: "Gray hair has been stigmatized to mean sexually old or over, and we all want to maintain attractiveness," said Ms. Kreamer, 51, [...]

by Sara Lukinson            The crowded, sticky-chaired airport lounge in Seattle filled with cranky passengers was about to be my entire Sunday until I met Shirley. The seat next to her was the only one free, and after I took it I let out a sigh, a grumph actually, about the long [...]

On the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, Sara Gould, president and CEO of the Ms. Foundation for Women, and Cynthia Schmae, chief operating officer of the Women’s Funding Network, say a focus on women provides lessons for disaster relief and aids social change: Two years after Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast, a central truth of [...]

Have you ever read a comment board discussion about women and wanted to bang your head? You’re not alone. Rekha Basu, a columnist for the Des Moines Register, has written an excellent piece about the sexist backlash online in which she questions why there’s so much vitriol directed at women — and she invites readers [...]

Have a question about women’s health or menopause? Dr. Patricia Yarberry Allen may have the answer. Click here to send in your question to be posted on WVFC. Question: I’m 56 and very healthy. I exercise six to seven times a week, eat organic and take a daily soy-based phytoestrogen supplement by mouth to combat [...]

Tonight at the U.S. Open in New York, Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Nikki Giovanni, Carol Moseley Braun, Phylicia Rashad and other pioneering African-American women will be on hand to celebrate the legacy of late tennis star Althea Gibson. The U.S. Tennis Association tribute, titled "Breaking Barriers," will commemorate the 50th anniversary of Gibson’s historic title in the [...]

by Gloria Feldt "Another of those silly jokes she forwards to her whole list," I thought as I warily opened the e-mail from my friend and former U.S. Senate candidate, Claire Sargent. But this was no joke. Claire had forwarded a message from another long-time tiller of the women’s equality fields, Paula Cullison, who reported [...]