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Do Working Moms Lose Child Custody in Divorces?

Not long after I graduated from college, I worked at a government agency. One of my co-workers was in the middle of a bitter divorce. Prior to the divorce, he stayed home caring for his two young sons. Once his wife left him, however, she filed for ...

From SUZANNE REISMAN, BlogHer,  19 Nov 2009

To Get/Keep a Man, Shave to His Will?

I visited a friend in London this past weekend. While I was there, I ate lots and lots of yummy chocolate and cheese and baked goods. I basked in the idea that national health care was a given. Even more, the UK National Health Service doesn't rob ...

From SUZANNE REISMAN, BlogHer,  16 Nov 2009

Related Topics: National Health Service,  U.S. Democratic Party,  Dodge

The (Female) Hero of Ft. Hood

Whenever I hear arguments about how women perform their jobs differently than men, I cringe. Usually it is meant as a complement, like the idea that because women are supposedly inherently nurturing, consensus seeking, peacemakers, we are better ...

From SUZANNE REISMAN, BlogHer,  9 Nov 2009

US Takes Step to Offer Political Asylum to Victims of Domestic Violence

For almost 15 years, Rody Alvarado Peña fought to stay in the United States. She fled here seeking asylum after suffering from horrific abuse at the hands of her husband. To save her life, she had to leave her two children with her parents. Her hope ...

From SUZANNE REISMAN, BlogHer,  5 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Rody Alvarado,  New York Times Company

We're #1 (Plus 30) in Closing the Gender Gap! Go U.S.!

For the past four years, the World Economic Forum has studied the gender gap - that is, the amount of resources dedicated to boys and girls and women's opportunities to fully participate in society - in over 100 countries, then ranked them. (In 2009, ...

From SUZANNE REISMAN, BlogHer,  2 Nov 2009

Related Topics: World Economic Forum,  Nicholas D. Kristof,  Sheryl Wudunn

Recipe for a Happy, Lasting Marriage Does Not Include Cougars

1 Man, older and less educated than the woman 1 Woman, at least 5 years younger (be sure to check freshness date!) and smarter than the man 0 Couples of the same sex 0 Previous divorces 0 Cougars Place man and woman in same home. Stir. Voila! Enjoy ...

From SUZANNE REISMAN, BlogHer,  29 Oct 2009

Related Topics: BBC,  Linda Franklin

Preventing Reproductive Health Services at All Costs

Every year, Planned Parenthood offers services to more than five million men, women, and adolescents. In that year, they offer nearly one million Pap tests and more than 850,000 breast exams, provide provides more than 3.3 million tests and treatments ...

From SUZANNE REISMAN, BlogHer,  22 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Planned Parenthood

Breast Cancer Awareness Month is Bunk

My mother was only 33 when she was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1980, and I am forever grateful that a mastectomy preserved her life. Buying things that could help other women seemed like a no-brainer - the corporations had brainwashed me but good. ...

From SUZANNE REISMAN, BlogHer,  19 Oct 2009

How TV Portrays Abortion

I know that the Golden Age of TV is supposedly long over, but what makes me really sad is how the boob tube literally continues to treat women and desire to control our fertility with rose colored glasses. The inability of network television to portray ...

From SUZANNE REISMAN, BlogHer,  12 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Doug Savant,  Jenna Elfman,  New York Times Company,  Pam Grier,  Jackie Brown

The Scary Statistics of Teenage Prostitution

The new program is called "A Future. Not A Past," and instead of throwing teen prostitutes in jail, it offers them safe housing, education, and therapy. Brilliant! If it were to pass it would mean, as the New York Times pointed out in an editorial ...

From SUZANNE REISMAN, BlogHer,  8 Oct 2009

Related Topics: New York Times Company,  Bob Herbert

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