Hugo Schwyzer responds to a recent op-ed that attempts to assign blame for the growing number of women suffering from body image issues, and offers another source of their strife: male disengagement. The body image crisis is a perennial hot topic in women’s magazines, but in 2012, it’s getting global attention like never before. From […]
Karen Roberts always wanted children, so when “the one” hadn’t come along by the time she was in her late-30s, she decided to have a child on her own. She discusses that decision and offers support for other women considering it. I am a single mom who started out single. I had a child on […]
As a starving artist who writes about her experiences with S&M and polyamory, Clarisse Thorn realizes her lifestyle isn’t the most conducive to having children, but for some reason, she still really wants to. I’m not the kind of woman that most people think of when they imagine a woman who wants to have kids. […]
This originally appeared on Fem2.0. Republished here with permission. In virtually every occupation, women earn less than men of comparable experience, education, and seniority. From the moment a woman throws her graduation cap into the air to the moment she retires, she earns less than a similar man. This difference is commonly quantified as a […]
Katerina Zacharia discusses why using the term “on ramp” to describe women returning to the workforce after having children is inaccurate, at best, and insulting, at worst. I’m troubled that we use the term “on ramp” to describe women returning back to the workforce after prioritizing childrearing. I’m specifically uncomfortable that we locate women who […]
This originally appeared on The Good Men Project. Republished here with permission. Agustín Fuentes points out that when it comes to men and women, what “everyone knows” isn’t what science shows. Everyone knows that men and women are really different. We think differently and act differently because we are wired differently. I mean look at […]
This originally appeared on Fem2.0. Republished here with permission. Wall Street is notorious for its lack of female power brokers. Catalyst reports that women make up only 15% of executive or senior-level officers in investment banking and securities companies. The fall of one of these women results in public scrutiny. Ina Drew of JPMorgan Chase […]
Justin Cascio reports on the changes he’s been through since he began taking testosterone more than 12 years ago. When I began transition at 24, I thought of it as getting to an end goal of looking like a man of my own age. The changes I went through in the first year got me […]
This was originally posted at The Feminist Mystique as part of the Last Name Project. Republished here with permission. I am not currently married, but I can say without a doubt that the “last name” debate is a deal-breaker for me. If someone I dated told me they wanted me to change my name when we got married, […]
Lynn Beisner discusses the defiant stance Melinda Gates recently took against the Catholic Church by stating that she and husband Bill Gates have sex without the intent to have children, and funding millions of doses of birth control for women. Last month, Melinda Gates, who is well-known for her avoidance of the spotlight, addressed a […]
As Mother’s Day nears, Sarah Jackson remembers all the women who deeply influenced her, who mothered her in their own ways, and made her the woman she is today. I’ve been thinking about Mother’s Day. It’s hard not to think about motherhood these days as both a woman who might make the choice to be […]
This originally appeared on The Huffington Post. Republished here with permission. When a woman is over age 30, single, and childless, people want to know why. Not just her doting parents, grandparents, aunts, and uncles. Not just the college roommate whose bridal and baby showers she threw 10 or 15 years earlier. Not just her […]
