Tag: Gender Issues

The White House and the Pentagon announced support Thursday for requiring women to register for the military draft. (AP Photo)

National Security

White House supports making women register for the draft

Gabby Morrongiello · December 1, 2016 10:38 pm

Mike Pence ought to introduce the cast of "Hamilton" to the Republican Party's own diverse cast. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

Living theater

Noemie Emery · November 22, 2016 5:03 am

"Doesn't Mitt Romney look good to us now? Oh my God," Nancy Pelosi said. (Graeme Jennings/Examiner)

Beltway Confidential

Pelosi wistful for Romney — does she regret casting him as a racist, sexist bigot?

Becket Adams · November 17, 2016 9:06 pm

Eric Fanning said the decisions the military has already made will make it more difficult to kick people out of the service who have already been accepted. (AP Photo)

National Security

Army secretary: Obama’s social changes are here to stay

Jacqueline Klimas · November 17, 2016 5:25 pm

Bloomberg promoted the story with a similarly sympathy-inspiring headline reading, "Hundreds of women poised to work for the Clinton administration are now out in the cold." (AP Photo)

Beltway Confidential

We’ve done it. We’ve found the least sympathetic characters of 2016

Becket Adams · November 15, 2016 10:36 pm

"I did say to him, because of the nature of the campaigns and the bitterness and veracity of the campaigns, that it's really important to send some signals of unity and to reach out to minority groups or women that are concerned about the tenor of the campaign," Obama. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

Obama advised Trump to reach out to minority, women’s groups after victory

Gabby Morrongiello · November 14, 2016 9:16 pm

According to a new FBI report, hate crimes against Muslims in America grew by 67 percent in 2015 over the previous year. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow)

FBI: Hate crimes against Muslims grew by 67 percent in 2015

Kelly Cohen · November 14, 2016 6:26 pm

The event is not intended to protest Trump, says an event organizer. (AP Photo/Carla K. Johnson)

‘Women’s March’ planned for DC day after Trump inauguration

Daniel Chaitin · November 13, 2016 7:02 pm

America is ready for a woman president, just not Clinton. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Beltway Confidential

Clinton’s concession speech and the ‘glass ceiling’

Ashe Schow · November 9, 2016 5:59 pm

Madonna offered any takers a sexual favor to vote for Hillary Clinton. (Photo by Greg Allen/Invision/AP)

Beltway Confidential

Vote because it’s your civic duty, not because Madonna promises sexual favors

Karin Lips · November 8, 2016 5:16 pm

President of Planned Parenthood Cecile Richards compared Donald Trump's misogyny to the sexism faced by her mother 26 years ago. (Graeme Jennings/Examiner)

Planned Parenthood president: Trump reminds her of sexism against mother

Paige Winfield Cunningham · November 7, 2016 7:34 pm

It turns out that, yet again, the media rushed to report their preferred narrative and didn't look into the reasons men were experiencing problems in the birth control study. (AP Photo)

Beltway Confidential

That male birth control study wasn’t scrapped because men are wimps

Ashe Schow · November 7, 2016 6:45 pm