Abortion rights supporters and opponents hit the streets of the nation's capital Friday to mark the 37th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the landmark Supreme Court ruling establishing a woman's constitutional right to terminate a pregnancy.
The executive producer of the "Late Show with David Letterman" defended the company's treatment of women in response to a letter from the president of the National Organization for Women, who said the star's actions created a "toxic environment."
The National Organization for Women has sharply criticized comedian David Letterman, accusing him of promoting a hostile, uncomfortable work environment.
NOW President Terry O'Neill tells HLN's Joy Behar that David Letterman is fostering a 'toxic workplace.'
Support for abortion rights has fallen sharply in the past year, with Americans now split roughly 50-50 between those who back legal access to abortion and those who oppose it, according to a new survey.
On August 26, 1920, the United States took a giant democratic leap when Secretary of State Bainbridge Colby certified the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, giving millions of American women the right to vote for the first time in the nation's history.
It's always silly to make sweeping generalizations about 2 1/2 billion people who may not have much in common beyond their anatomical features. Yet where women are concerned, authors and publishers...
Fortune: NOW HEAR THIS updated: Mon Jul 25 1994 00:01:00
-- GLORIA FREUND, 50, Nassau County executive director for the National Organization for Women, on the Citadel's insistence that Shannon Faulkner, its first female candidate, get a crew cut:"Some w...
GARDEN GROVE, CALIFORNIA -- For four decades, the mischievous image has bared itself to sunscreen buyers on billboards nationwide: an adorable little girl, her tan line and backside revealed to the...
Fortune: NOW HEAR THIS updated: Mon Jul 13 1992 00:01:00
-- ALEXANDER IVANOV, 38, who loads trucks for a living in Moscow, on Madonna's movie Truth or Dare, a flop among Russians, who don't like women to swear: ''Frankly, I was bored.'' -- NOREEN CONNELL...
In which Kindly Dr. Keeping Up adumbrates the rise of public toplessness to burning issuehood in American politics while also invoking Sigmund Freud and % asking the fateful question: What does the...
Your servant has just spent a truly dreadful evening that began with his hovering over 179 articles about the ''men's movement'' -- this figure being the total number of articles referring to the m...
As is well known, the National Organization for Women (N.O.W.), the Women's Legal Defense Fund (W.L.D.F.), the Fund for the Feminist Majority (F.F.M.), and their ever eager collaborators in the med...
Far more fun than collecting stamps in the present period are noting and cataloguing the succession of dopey ideas that suddenly get to be rated politically correct. For example, the idea that the ...
Since we last wrote about the VMI case a couple of fortnights ago, two things have happened. The astounding thing was Federal District Judge Jackson L. Kiser's willingness to buck the zeitgeist, go...
Question of the month: What do American women think of the American women's movement? Actually, we had not formally identified that as the QOTM until the New York Times lengthily raised the questio...
Money Magazine: CORRECTIONS updated: Sat Oct 01 1988 00:01:00
-- A picture caption in ''It Was Faxination, I Know . . . '' (July) gave the wrong model number for the Brother fax machine. The correct number: FAX-100. -- One Woman's Finances in August incorrect...
Patricia Schroeder is traveling the country, testing the presidential waters . . . When Mrs. Schroeder spoke to the National Organization for Women's convention in Philadelphia . . . the chant ''Ru...
PHILADELPHIA -- The buttons worn by dozens of representatives to the National Organization for Women convention said simply, ''Shred Bork.'' The slogan signified the prevailing sentiment among the ...
Hey, what ever happened to the women's movement? Have women maybe decided they don't exactly need the movement? If not, why is it slowly sinking from sight, leaving policy analysts everywhere with ...
''Media Bias Is in Eye of the Beholder'' was the instantly off-putting headline over Albert R. Hunt's op-ed meditations in the Wall Street Journal the other day, which went on for many a pica befor...
Behalf of the Grownups Writing about Benjamin Spock's new collaborator a fortnight ago, we briefly thought to mention that the media keep calling this person--his name is Michael B. Rothenberg, M.D...
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