The dangers of carrying a gun in your purse—even a pretty pink one—are pretty well-established. But you might also want to consider keeping any random ammunition you own out of your handbag. That's a lesson one woman in Pennsylvania just learned the hard way. The 56-year-old was shopping at a Lowe's when suddenly a…

Venture capital isn't necessarily an easy field to be a woman in, seeing as it's a world dominated by men. But one well-known firm, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, has been seen as being slightly more receptive to women joining its ranks. It was one of the first VC firms to hire female partners, and it now has more…

Of all the things our airports need these days, more working bathrooms, better food options, and fewer epicly shitty delays would probably top the list. But rather than getting those things, those of us who live in New York are apparently instead getting an unsettling avatar who is designed to replace human customer…

It seems like just yesterday the Secret Service was pretty much unanimously associated with saving the day, but now the agency is finding that when it rains bad news, it pours. First came the prostitution scandal in Colombia, perhaps the first-ever challenge to our general idea that Secret Service members are totally…

When it comes to worst nightmares, there are so many options that it can be hard to decide what's the actual worst case scenario. But this experience ranks right up there: An 80-year-old woman was a passenger in the small twin-engine plane her husband was flying near their home in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin. Suddenly her…

If there was a show called I Didn't Know I Was Pregnant...Because I'm Not, this would be a prime contender for the season premiere: A woman in Barcelona went to the emergency room after suffering from severe abdominal pain, and doctors declared she was pregnant. The woman, whose name is being withheld, says she was…

Rapper The Game was on tour in Australia in February, and he seems to have behaved very badly while he was down there. This disturbing little piece of NSFW footage from his show in Adelaide has just emerged. It shows a girl from the audience on stage looking increasingly more uncomfortable as she is harassed by The…

A pregnant woman in South Carolina was trying to lift a few things from a beauty supply store when one of the store's employees caught her red-handed. Rather than admit she was wrong and return the goods, Alexis Sade Hayes went on the attack. She hit the employee in the head with a can of hairspray she'd been…

We all have dreams, but few of us are committed enough to write down a list of them and carry it around as a constant reminder of what we're aiming for in life. But Donna Fountain, a 38-year-old from Brooklyn, did just that. Sadly, police found Donna's list with her when she was killed by a hit-and-run driver on…

In what has to be one of the most terrifying crimes of 2011, a man dressed like an exterminator walked into an apartment building in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn yesterday afternoon and set a woman on fire. He appeared to have been waiting for her on the fifth floor when the doors to the elevator she was riding in…

All the networks have passed on David E. Kelly's script for a Wonder Woman reboot, possibly because it would involve a hefty licensing fee. Though, the networks wouldn't have to shell out for the invisible plane... or pants.

Even if you've never purchased the abortion pill Mifeprex, you've seen the logo. Everywhere from yoga studios to charity events, the silhouette of a dancing woman has become the marker of a product designed for women.

A meditation on becoming a man got us thinking about the girl/woman divide — and how we know when we've crossed it.

Elisa Gonzalez and her kids were asked to clothe their Venus de Milo snow sculpture after New Jersey police received complaints. "I thought she looked more objectified and sexualized after you put the bikini on," said Gonzalez. [NJ.com via Newser]

Following an awesome essay by Thera Pitts, some jackass named Josh Tyler says we don't need more female superheroes. "There’s a reason Wonder Woman is the only noteworthy solo female superhero anyone can name."

Back in the 70s, Valerie Grove wrote a book called Compleat Woman, about 20 women who supposedly "had it all" — more than three children, blossoming careers, stable marriages. (Grove said she chose women with that number of kids because "the real test begins once the children outnumber their parents." ) Anyway, in…