“GLOW” celebrates female strength: on the mat, in the producing studio and on the L.A. auditioning circuit.
Women’s Issues
Posted inFeatures, Politics & Society
The hospital program for parents facing tragic prenatal diagnoses
Perinatal hospice offers compassionate care to children with life-limiting conditions.
Posted inLast Take, Politics & Society
Cyntoia Brown and how the U.S. criminal justice system fails black women and girls
Cyntoia Brown was 16 years old when she was charged as an adult and convicted of premeditated first-degree murder, felony murder and “especially aggravated robbery.”
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
How arguing over whether Epstein abused ‘girls’ or ‘young women’ hurts all victims of injustice
Jeffrey Epstein is accused of buying and selling young girls, writes Simcha Fisher, and games over semantics (is it “pedophilia” or “ephebophilia”?) means we are not truly fighting for justice for his victims.
Posted inLast Take, Politics & Society
How my mother helped mentor the first female president of Loyola University New Orleans
Tania is the first woman and the first layperson to lead the university since it was founded by the Jesuits in 1912, writes Cokie Roberts.
Posted inFeatures, Politics & Society
How one midwife is helping indigenous mothers connect to their childbirth traditions
These traditional, indigenous birth practices should never have been erased in the first place.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Catholics need a better way to talk about women’s bodies. Here’s a good place to start.
We are bad at talking about women’s bodies—a fact that constrains and distorts our conversations about and policies related to women’s health.
Posted inEditorials, Politics & Society
The Editors: Roe v. Wade has made abortion politics impossible. It needs to be challenged.
The ongoing political crisis is the persistent failure of Roe v. Wade and Casey v. Planned Parenthood to settle the abortion question and the failure of the Supreme Court to offer any sign that these cases ever will.
Posted inFaith, Vatican Dispatch
Pope Francis tells women religious church cannot alter revelation on women’s diaconate
“In regard to the diaconate we must see what was there at the beginning of revelation, if there was something, let it grow and it arrives, but if there was not, if the Lord didn’t want a sacramental ministry for women, it can’t go forward.”
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: When wrath is not a sin
Outrage is the order of the day, and we see evidence of this everywhere. But Rebecca Traister wants to point out the productive power of anger as well.