While the nation erupts in a long overdue gender race powwow, I'll read state primary updates on: South Carolina: Lowcountry blogs Check out this post from SC blogger Consuela at Afrogeekmomanddad: It's interesting being a black woman living in South Carolina these days. All eyes are on us, as if the press and ...

I wrote a piece on BlogHer.com about my generation and Hillary Clinton. My thesis: We may not like to admit it, but Hillary and thirtysomething women both need the women’s movement. In reading responses, I sort of banged my head against the wall because I had assumed that women shared ...

Townhall.com's Mary Katharine Ham and I did a video blog from the ABC/Facebook debates in New Hampshire last night. <object height="355" width="425"> <param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/woRCDE-1Fc4&rel=1"></param> <param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/woRCDE-1Fc4&rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="355" width="425"></embed></object></p>SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Mary Katharine Ham and me at ABC/Facebook debate", url: "http://womenandwork.org/2008/01/06/mary-katharine-ham-and-me-at-abcfacebook-debate/" });

UPDATE: I apologize if I misquoted Lawless. I just found this quote from her clarifying the "women for vote women" argument: Women do tend to vote for female contenders, but that doesn't necessarily translate into a gender preference, explains Jennifer Lawless, a political scientist at Brown University who studies women candidates. ...

From Iowa blogger Essential Estrogen, on the day of the Iowa Caucus: Listen to the national media long enough and you'll soon be convinced that I'm one of the hottest commodities available in this presidential election. First, I'm a resident of Iowa. Second, I'm a woman. It is true that ...

said Tina Fey's Liz Lemon in 30 Rock, when asked what religion she practices. Seems she's not alone: Even before Oprah drew throngs in Iowa, the Des Moines Register poll showed Mr. Obama leading Hillary Clinton among women for the first time (31 to 26 percent) in late November. Now ...

After I wrote a piece in the Huffington Post citing Margie Omero's findings that single women vote more than single men, and we can't be so incredibly one-sided about the whole thing: "There is indeed a "Marriage Gap" among women. Married people vote at a higher rate than non-married people. ...

Please take a moment to support Donna Edwards and tell our wimpy Congress to stand up. This is great email from Matt Stoller, BlogPac: "I remember watching Nancy Pelosi sworn in as the first female Speaker of the House.  What a moment, as the new Speaker surrounded herself with children and ...

“It still seems to be amazingly hard for many women to say clearly what they feel most deeply, and to find the right words for what to them is most acute and actual, without saying too much or too little and without saying it with defiance or apology." Erik Erikson, Womanhood ...

This is a great study, but several years old. I would love to see updated statistics along these lines: The Discursive Construction of Weblogs "There is thus a relationship between blog type and author demographics. We propose that this relationship sheds light on how weblogs have been discursively constructed—that is, how meanings ...