Difference is not equated with superiority or inferiority, dominating or being dominated, being served or serving..

there are only two basic ways of structuring the relations between the female and male halves of humanity. All societies are patterned on either a do….

Obviously there is pain in childbirth. But giving birth is also a moment of awe and wonder, a moment when the true miracle of aliveness, and of a wom….

For Islamic fundamentalists male "honor" is equated with control over the women in a man's family - to the extent that killing a woman who makes her ….

And this exclusion of "women's work" continues, despite United Nations data gathered since 1975 (the beginning of the UN Decade for Women) indicating….

It is not coincidental that for so-called religious fundamentalists - whether they are Western or Eastern, Muslim or Christian - rigid male dominance….

Care work is still primarily done by women for free in families and for poverty wages in the market, and this is a major reason that worldwide women ….

The only life many of the leaders of the anti-family planning movement seem to care about -- indeed obsess about -- is life before birth and after de….

Care work produces public goods, and should be supported in families by policies such as paid parental leave and caregiver tax credits, and by invest….

The bad news is that the movement toward the partnership side of the social scale (and it is always a matter of degree, as no society is a pure partn….

The link between intimate violence in the home and the international violence of terrorism and war is as tightly bound together as the fingers of a c….

We are rapidly moving into the post-industrial age, when we must redefine what is "productive" work, as more and more jobs are being replaced by auto….

For as long as human beings are forced to live in a system that at every turn impedes the fulfillment of their basic human needs - not only for love ….

At the core of every child is an intact human..

Women represent 70 percent of the 1.3 billion people in our world who live in absolute poverty. Consequently, as Joan Holmes, president of the Hunger….

For most progressives, what happens in families is a matter of "just" women's issues and children's issues. So progressive movements have focused pri….

war and the 'war of the sexes' are neither divinely nor biologically ordained..

Can we really expect adequate funding for programs to clean up our environment and care for people's basic needs as long as the socially essential wo….

Rather than being any longer a threat to the established androcratic order, Christianity became what practically all this earth's religions, launched….

Schools in which students and teachers relate as partners-where Rosenberg's Nonviolent Communication is part of every interaction are communities of ….

For new ideas to be translated into new realities requires not only clarity of vision but also the opportunity to change old realities..