March is women’s history month, but this year we’re getting a special kind of history lesson. The anti-woman agenda being ram-rodded through legislatures this term is ancient. At least since Helen of Troy, our leaders have been actively denying women the right to choose how to run their private lives.
Tighter Belts, Later Bumps
Dilma Rousseff, President of Brasil
Fair Pay, Fertile Future
Pull Your Socks Up
Women’s Work
Planning Motherhood: The Pill and Socioeconomic Change
Up until recently, women’s work has been largely limited to bearing and rearing the workforce for free, because they had no other option. But when sex and babies cease to be directly linked, business and government risk losing their major underwriter—the moms, if they don’t offer of family-supportive policies for women who want to combine work and childrearing.