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[wowOwow | The Women on the Web] Population Services International?s global ambassador Ashley Judd learns in heartbreaking detail the circumstances that compel a woman in Africa into sex work. Here are the photos from her experience .

I never really thought a lot about what my life would be like if I became a mom. I assumed that I’d get pregnant, have the baby, and eventually go back to work. It’s what most women do. I didn’t...

Sorry for the light blogging everyone. It has been a busy, busy week. Some of you may have caught Janet Hyde's latest paper looking at data from the No Child Left Behind Act and math performance in the US. Under the No Child Left Behind Act, states are[...]

"What is more pleasant than the benevolent notice other people take of us, what is more agreeable than their compassionate empathy? What inspires us more than addressing ears flushed with excitement, what captivates us more than exercising our own power[...]

To make a point about how women make less money than men in the work force, Swedish firm Miljopartiet de grona ran a print ad that compares currency featuring men to lower-value currency featuring women.

Click images for desktop size: "Untitled" by Carlo Carra In a small town in the midwest there were two sisters. They were both unmarried, both young and beautiful. They lived together in the same house their entire lives. There was a lot of gossip and[...]

Note from Rachel - I've known Lauren and Emira via email/the internet since way back in the days of their site Soapboxgirls, and was thrilled to see they'd written The Boss of You. I've read about half of it so far (not because it's not good, I'm just[...]

It seems like every time I turn around, there's something in the news about the "mommy wars" the supposed conflict between women who work out of the home and women who are stay-at-home moms. I have to tell you, as...

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In a move that's been obvious since the film Barbarella hit the planet, a scientist's research is pointing to the need for sex in space. But it's for a scientific and sensible reason: avoiding frustration on long-term space missions, when crew-members[...]