North America | United States | Business

Everyday injustices for working women: The slights add up

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Commentary: If you want to make a difference in gender equality, consider the subtle and often subconscious ways in which women are overlooked, devalued and underestimated in the business world. Earlier this year, I called it the most important issue in the tech world in 2015. It's about more than social and economic injustice. It's about meeting society's needs for advancements in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). I've found plenty of men and women who agree with me, but there's still a question of what we can do to make it better. Right now. Every day. One of the thi
North America | United States | Activism

Women Turn Tables on Online Harassers

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About 24 hours after joining Tinder, Ashley Brincefield, 31, a customs inspector in Port Tobacco, Md., began getting creepy messages. Married men propositioned her for sex. Guys lashed out if they didn’t get a reply in a timely fashion. Various men sent naked selfies. Ms. Brincefield tried blocking them and reporting them to Tinder, but the harassers would just surface under a new screen name, she said. So she decided to take matters into her own hands. She took screen shots of the offending messages, superimposed them with remarks like “Tinder is not the solution to your marital problem
North America | United States | Ethics

Planned Parenthood head says take ‘politics out of women’s health care’

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Today, women’s accomplishments across a range of arenas can be tied to the freedom birth control offers in planning a family, according to Cecile Richards, president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America. “I can’t imagine going back to a time when women couldn’t make their own decisions about whether or when to have a child,” she said. Richards continues to highlight the other health services her organization provides to women, which make up the bulk of its care. “These are what I think of as bedrock American values,” she said. “I think anyone who’s trying