Tag: Gender Issues

This photo of President Trump receiving applause from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi at this year's State of the Union was an instant hit from New York Times photographer Doug Mills.

Beltway Confidential

It took Trump exactly one nod at Democrats’ egos to get them on their feet during the State of the Union

Becket Adams · February 6, 2019 4:35 am

U.S. President Donald Trump delivers a State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2019.

Trump rips into Democrats for controversial abortion comments, pushes for 20-week ban

Kimberly Leonard · February 6, 2019 3:09 am

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, a Democrat from New York, right, speaks to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a Democrat from California during a Raise The Wage Act news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2019. Democrats unveiled a bill to raise the hourly federal minimum wage to $15 â long-shot legislation that would likely require compromise with Republicans to become law.

Beltway Confidential

There are a couple big problems with the Democrats’ gender wage gap bill

Nicole Russell · February 4, 2019 11:13 pm

Beltway Confidential

The ‘Handmaid’s Tale’ Super Bowl ad proves that it really still is ‘Morning in America’

Tiana Lowe Doescher · February 4, 2019 10:35 pm

Four fighter jets fly above a graveside service for Rosemary Mariner, the Navy's first female fighter pilot, at New Loyston Cemetery in Maynardville, Tenn., on Saturday, Feb. 2, 2019.

National Security

First all-female flyover honors service of groundbreaking pilot Rosemary Mariner

Kimberly Leonard · February 3, 2019 8:47 pm

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the winner of a Democratic Congressional primary in New York, greets a passerby in New York, Wednesday, June 27, 2018, the morning after she upset U.S. Rep. Joe Crowley in Tuesday's primary election.

Beltway Confidential

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is all-in on gender, identity politics

Becket Adams · February 3, 2019 3:24 pm

Moderator Lester Holt, anchor of NBC Nightly News, asks a question of Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton during the presidential debate Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump at Hofstra University in Hempstead, N.Y., Monday, Sept. 26, 2016.

Washington Secrets

Men run the news, 2 to 1, despite demands for diversity, equality everywhere else

Paul Bedard · January 31, 2019 4:45 pm

Youngsters walk near PS90 Condominiums, a $40 million conversion of a century-old public school on 147th Street in Harlem, N.Y.

Who’s disproportionately a victim of human trafficking? Young black women

Karla Jacobs · January 30, 2019 5:00 am

Democratic Sen. Kamala Harris, of California, speaks as she formally launches her presidential campaign at a rally in her hometown of Oakland, Calif., Sunday, Jan. 27, 2019.

Beltway Confidential

Kamala Harris at CNN town hall saves herself from cringe-inducing moment

Eddie Scarry · January 29, 2019 3:50 pm

In this Dec. 7, 2018 file photo, hip-hop recording artist Cardi B performs at Z100's iHeartRadio Jingle Ball in New York.

Beltway Confidential

On sex, women have great power, and with great power comes great responsibility

Nicole Russell · January 24, 2019 4:50 pm

Demonstrators march on Pennsylvania Av. during the Women's March in Washington on Saturday, Jan. 19, 2019.

Beltway Confidential

Alan Dershowitz: The Women’s March tries to rationalize its complicity with anti-Semitism

Alan Dershowitz · January 23, 2019 8:35 pm

Anti-abortion activists march towards the U.S. Supreme Court, during the March for Life in Washington Friday, Jan. 18, 2019.

Beltway Confidential

Young women speak on abortion during March for Life

Katie Anderson · January 23, 2019 3:15 pm