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Betty Friedan is dead at 85–a brilliant, pugnacious woman who lived a big life and wrote a big book, a book that…
Katha Pollitt
Katha Pollitt is a columnist at The Nation. She is well known for her wit and her keen sense of both the ridiculous and the sublime. Her “Subject to Debate” column, which debuted in 1995 and which the Washington Post
called “the best place to go for original thinking on the left,” appears regularly in The Nation. “Subject to Debate” won the National Magazine Award for Columns and Commentary in 2003, and was a finalist in 2013. Pollitt is also the recipient of the American Sociological Association Award for Excellence in the Reporting of Social Issues. She is a Puffin Foundation Writing Fellow at Type Media Center.
All year long it’s been one piece of bad news after another, but now it’s time to put on the rose-colored glasses…
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Beijing Plus 10, the follow-up on the momentous 1995 Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, is opening at the United Nations…
As the saying goes, behind every successful woman is a man who is surprised. Harvard president Larry Summers apparently is that man.…
Single women under 65–those separated, widowed, divorced or never married–represent at least 24 percent of the voting- age population and a whopping…
THE women’s movement has transformed the United States in just over 30 years. Stroll through a park and you’re likely to see…