We're all still collectively shaking in our boots with excitement over Tina Fey and Amy Poehler's two-year takeover of the Golden Globe Awards, but for the two of them, the fun is just getting started. They're rumored to be making $4 million per year of the show – each.
Would you describe yourself as a control freak? Does the idea of letting a cleaning woman into your house give you a minor panic attack? Does the thought of letting your husband organize your closet make you want to cry? Well, then you might sit on the freaky side of the control spectrum. Chances are, you are kind of…
Harold Seymour was regarded for years as America's primary baseball historian, with his books the go-to resource on the National Pastime. But here's the thing: his wife actually wrote a lot of them.
A Somali town has banned women from working — to their great economic detriment.
This 1919 photo shows a Girl Scout harvesting crops near Washington D.C. During World War I, the Woman's Land Army of America brought more than 20,000 city women to rural areas to replace male farm workers.
"Yes, it's feminism we have to thank for the spread of fast-food chains and an epidemic of childhood obesity." How, you ask? Why, the (supposed) death of home cooking!
What do at-home caregivers and executive assistants have in common? They toil, often on the sidelines, know the intimate details of their employers' lives — and are usually women.
At first glance, Girlcore may seem like nothing more than a bunch of Lindsay Lohan-wannabees partying it up in London and Paris. And that is part of the story. But they're also a female collective, dedicated to promoting talented women.
A Republican newsletter asked for help getting Rep. Betty Sutton "back in in the kitchen" where she belongs. But we're sure it's a joke, just like how we shouldn't get to vote.
"Mei Ling, an idle young Chinese woman, lives alone in her flat, waiting for her lover. One day, she finds a little octopus in the kitchen sink. She decides to adopt it to avoid boredom. The octopus grows up..."
This year, the Whitney Biennial features more female artists than male. Some are calling it the "women's show" - but is it?
A British court has decided that paying mostly female caregivers less than mostly male gardeners and garbage collectors constitutes gender discrimination. The decision raises the question: what does income equality really mean?
Check out the short documentary A Woman's Place, about the early days of the UK women's movement: be inspired, then depressed by the fact that the "four basic demands" of the First International Women's Day march are still unanswered. [TheFWord]
According to a recent survey from the UK, more than a third of secretaries have been asked to do something that went "beyond the call of duty," including bathing a boss's mother, making curtains, and holding a boss's hand. [Telegraph]
"It was the times they tore me to shreds that were the best," reminisces Rabbi Margaret Moers Wenig. Spoken like a firebrand:
In Salon this weekend, Siobhan Phillips described the month she and her husband spent eating "ethically." Her experiment got us thinking about whether the burdens of a sustainable diet fall disproportionately on women.
On International Women's Day, the Vatican's newspaper observed: "Some say the pill, some say abortion rights and some the right to work outside the home. Some, however, dare to go further: the washing machine."
A review from the Financial Times of two female artists with exhibitions in London asks the question that has been floating around since women first started producing art: is art gendered?
Lisa Belkin is perhaps the nation's foremost chronicler of highly ambitious females and coiner of the phrase "opting out" has decided to opt out of her weekly "Life's Work" column (see what I did there? I kid). Anyway, Belkin's last column discussing the work/life balance among women and after nine years of covering…
Back in the "good" old days, "Charlie" was a convenient plot device to turn a gender stereotype (teacher and student) on its head before the characters got down to business. These days, she's a whole cadre of mostly behind-the-scenes counterinsurgency professionals, toiling to save the world through the development a…
