Tag: Gender Issues

The Zika funding bill attaches an extra phrase onto language describing how some of the funding that could go to Planned Parenthood can be allocated. (AP Photo)

Beltway Confidential

HHS expands access to women’s healthcare, Planned Parenthood freaks out anyway

Rebecca Marchinda · March 30, 2018 7:44 pm

"Boston, Massachusetts, USA - December 4, 2011: A group of people participating in the Occupy Boston protest."

Beltway Confidential

Feminists are to blame for the plight of boys and men

Suzanne Venker · March 30, 2018 7:17 pm

Beltway Confidential

Cosmopolitan, Walmart, and naive shouts of Puritanism

Liz Wolfe · March 30, 2018 7:07 pm

Former Secretary of State and presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks to the GirlsBuildLA Leadership Summit in Los Angeles. Thousands of girls are gathering for a leadership conference featuring Clinton, California Sen. Kamala Harris and female CEOs that comes as women across the country are sharing stories about how sexual misconduct by powerful men sidetracked their careers.

Hillary Clinton says people never asked men who lost the presidency to stop touring

Katelyn Caralle · March 30, 2018 3:04 pm

UC Davis looking to award ‘Feminist researchers’ with $10,000 grants despite tuition hikes

John Patrick · March 29, 2018 9:30 pm

Tucker Carlson, host of "Tucker Carlson Tonight," poses for photos in a Fox News Channel studio, in New York, Thursday, March 2, 2107.

Beltway Confidential

Tucker Carlson, Christina Hoff Sommers talk plight of young men: ‘If boys are in trouble, so are we all’

Emily Jashinsky · March 29, 2018 8:23 pm

Beltway Confidential

Hoping to stop hemorrhaging of young women, RNC highlights its influential young women

Emily Jashinsky · March 29, 2018 6:38 pm

Comedian Sandra Bernhard poses at the 42nd Annual Gracie Awards Gala at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel on Tuesday, June 6, 2017, in Beverly Hills, Calif.

‘Roseanne’ star: Women who support Trump can’t think for themselves

Caitlin Yilek · March 29, 2018 1:30 pm

CIA Deputy Director Gina Haspel, who joined the CIA in 1985, has been chief of station at CIA outposts abroad. President Trump tweeted March 13 that he would nominate CIA Director Mike Pompeo to be the new secretary of state and that he would nominate Haspel to replace him. (CIA via AP)

Beltway Confidential

Why, in their own words, CIA professionals love Gina Haspel

Tom Rogan · March 29, 2018 8:30 am

Customers walk out of a Walmart store in Hialeah Gardens, Fla.

Beltway Confidential

Walmart removing Cosmo from its checkout lines is no #MeToo victory, it’s just Puritanism

Liz Wolfe · March 28, 2018 7:43 pm

A U.S. Air Force Honor Guard marches during the annual St. Patrick's Day parade, Sunday, March 18, 2018, in Boston. The city's 117th St. Patrick's Day Parade followed a shortened snow route used three of the past four years due to the buildup of snow from three recent nor'easters.

National Security

More than two-dozen retired military leaders say transgender policy forces troops to ‘hide in the shadows’

Travis J. Tritten · March 27, 2018 2:30 pm

In this Feb. 7, 2018, photo, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis arrives for the daily news briefing at the White House in Washington. The United States is urging allied nations to help deal with the growing number of foreign fighters that are being held by the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces, saying the militants should be turned over to face justice in their home countries. Mattis is expected to raise the issue during a meeting in Rome this week with other members of the coalition that is fighting the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria.

National Security

Here’s what we know, and don’t know, about Jim Mattis’ transgender policy

Travis J. Tritten · March 26, 2018 8:57 pm