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Whom Does Patricia Arquette Want Equality For?
Patricia Arquette accepts the award for best actress in a supporting role for Boyhood at the Oscars on Sunday, Feb. 22, 2015, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. It was tempting to cheer Patricia...
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How Free do We Want Our Nipples?
My hot yoga class gets hot. As in, really hot. When I ring out my mat out after class, best-case scenario is that all of the sweat belongs to me, not Mr. Natural Deodorant in the back row. I wear as...
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Are Women Being Overmedicated?
Shutterstock.com Psychiatrist Julie Holland wrote in the New York Times this weekend about adjudicating the female mood, which ever since the publication of the feminist classic The Yellow Wallpaper, a...
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Pennsylvania Women Won’t Get Equal Pay Until 2072
Shutterstock.com Yes, it’s true, Pennsylvania’s Equal Pay Act passed in 1963. So why is it that, in its recent “Status of Women in the States” report from the Institute for Women’s Policy Research, our...
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The Best Thing That Happened This Week: The NFL Hired a Female Ref
Sarah Thomas, who has worked exhibition games, will be a line judge for the 2015 season, the league announced Wednesday, April 8, 2015. Read more from this week’s Philadelphia Sunday. Not a subscriber?...
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That Was Fast: Hillary Clinton Already Attacked for Running While Female
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton meets with local residents at the Jones St. Java House, Tuesday, April 14, 2015, in LeClaire, Iowa. Well, that didn’t take long. The same day...
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These Are Philly’s 10 Worst Catcalls, Ranked
A sign declaring “No Catcalling Anytime” in Brooklyn’s Grand Plaza area, Thursday, April 16. A nonprofit company called Feminist Apparel says it hopes to have at least one sign up in every borough by...
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Are the Duggars Pro-Family — or Just Anti-Woman?
The Duggars In general, I try not to dissect why I care about the lives of strangers on reality TV shows. Best-case scenario, I don’t have enough going on in my own life. Worst case, I have a sneaky...
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No, Kathleen Kane Scandal Is Not a “Blow to Women”
Let’s get one thing straight very quickly: Kathleen Kane‘s indictment on charges she leaked secret grand jury materials is a shame, an embarrassment to a state that has no shortage of reasons to be...
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Stu Bykofsky Doesn’t Think I Should Have Had an Abortion
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Here’s the Problem With That Popular Planned Parenthood Defense
Patricia Ireland, president of National Organization for Women (NOW), third from right, demonstrates with other NOW participants in favor of the Roe vs. Wade decision during the candlelight vigil on...
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Well, that didn’t take long. The same day Hillary Clinton officially launched her campaign for president, she was scrutinized for doing so while being a woman. […] The post That Was Fast: Hillary...
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In an odious “story” in today’s Daily News, Stu Bykofsky, a man whom I have never met, makes the huge (and hugely male) presumption that […] The post Stu Bykofsky Doesn’t Think I Should Have Had an...
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