Tag: Gender Issues

According to Clinton, sexism and misogyny are "endemic" in our culture, as she told Jane Pauley on CBS Sunday morning. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Beltway Confidential

Hillary Clinton still doesn’t realize her loss had nothing to do with sexism

Suzanne Venker · September 14, 2017 4:21 pm

Hillary Clinton said it's harder for successful women to be perceived as likable. "The more professionally successful a man becomes, the more likable he is. The more professionally successful a woman becomes, the less likable she is," she said. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Hillary Clinton: It’s harder for successful women

Pete Kasperowicz · September 13, 2017 12:30 pm

For Sen. Dianne Feinstein and others like her who are adamantly pro-abortion, the view that this supposed right of women needs to be upheld no matter what is a religion unto itself. And it is that religion that the senator deems a must-have for nominees to the judiciary. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Beltway Confidential

Let the dogma live loudly

Penny Nance · September 13, 2017 4:01 am

Rep. Luis Gutierrez, D-Ill., didn't back off his criticism of President Trump's chief of staff John Kelly during a Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute event Tuesday. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Luis Gutierrez: John Kelly is a politician, ‘not a general’

Sean Langille · September 12, 2017 11:01 pm

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg acknowledges the crowd's applause before participating in a conversation with Judge Ann Claire Williams of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit at Roosevelt University Monday, Sept. 11, 2017, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

Ruth Bader Ginsburg: ‘There will be enough women on the Supreme Court when there are nine’

Ryan Lovelace · September 12, 2017 2:32 pm

Elevated dialogue can produce practical solutions for LGBT equality and religious freedom. It led to the so-called "Utah compromise." This law protects LGBT individuals from being fired or denied housing due to sexual orientation or gender identity. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

LGBT rights are not incompatible with religious liberty unless we make them so

marianedmonds-allen, Derek Monson · September 10, 2017 4:01 am

While I commend Betsy DeVos on the position she's taking and feel confident she'll get something more fair in place re campus sexual assault, I certainly don't envy her. I'm not even sure she knows what an uphill battle she has. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Beltway Confidential

Finally, someone in power is standing up for due process in campus sexual assault cases

Suzanne Venker · September 8, 2017 10:08 pm

Regardless of how one feels about gay marriage, I don't know if we can blame the current threat to free speech on that movement. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

Beltway Confidential

Did the ‘gay agenda’ bring us to a war on free speech, or was it social media?

Gabriella Munoz · September 8, 2017 4:18 pm

At Google, men hold 80 percent of tech jobs and 75 percent of leadership positions. But the disparity isn't unique to Google. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

Beltway Confidential

Christina Hoff Sommers: Reflections on the Google controversy and James Damore’s infamous memo

Christina Hoff Sommers · September 7, 2017 2:08 pm

President Trump has ordered Defense Secretary Jim Mattis to abandon plans to begin recruiting transgender troops, eliminate coverage for transgender surgeries by March, and to decide whether to kick out those who are currently serving.

National Security

California group files fourth transgender lawsuit against Trump

Travis J. Tritten · September 5, 2017 6:48 pm

Jeff Bezos, president and chief executive officer of Amazon.com Inc., right, speaks as President Trump, left, and Satya Nadella, chief executive officer of Microsoft Corp., listen during the American Technology Council roundtable hosted at the White House on June 19.
(Zach Gibson/Bloomberg)

Trump’s tech council moves ‘full steam ahead’ despite tension with Silicon Valley

Melissa Quinn · September 5, 2017 4:01 am

California is moving to make it easier for transgender people to identify as the gender of their choice with legislation that would give residents a way to pick one's preferred sex on all state documents, including birth certificates and driver's licenses. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

California would be first to give residents a third gender option

Anna Giaritelli · September 4, 2017 4:01 am