- Betty White becomes an honorary forest ranger -- because she wanted to be one as a little girl and, honestly, who could deny her?
- Speaking of female comedians we love, Tina Fey tells the Washington Post that from her experience, male humorists tend to be "dark" and "challenge authority," whereas for the women she knows, "the act of doing comedy itself was the act of rebellion."
- The New York Times dramatically asks whether "attachment parenting" has "imprisoned mothers."
- Gay and lesbian couples are suing the government in hopes of toppling the Defense of Marriage Act.
- Forbes reports that the takeaway from a Harvard conference on gender equality is that "there is irrefutable, verifiable evidence that women in greater than token proportions improve decision-making, improve shareholder value and lower risk-taking."
- A student at Dartmouth is accused of religious insensitivity for handing out mirrors to women on campus and encouraging them to become intimately acquainted with their own lady parts.
- Women are "dramatically underrepresented" in law firm leadership, reports the Wall Street Journal.
- German Family Minister Kristina Schroder is being attacked for challenging feminist dogma.
- A study finds that teen girls are more likely than boys to go without protection the first time they have sex.
- Feministing founder Jessica Valenti opts out of a panel inspired by More magazine's recent feature on young feminists after discovering that a fellow panelist is a conservative who works for what she considers to be a "virulently anti-feminist" organization.
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