Women's Issues/Life Issues

I made the decision not to change my name when I got married seven years ago. I had had the same name for thirty years of my life and suddenly changing it did not make sense to me. I was the same person even though I was a married one and my name signified who I was. Even then I agonized over it,... Sign in to see full entry.

Apparently in 1998 former California women's basketball coach Marianne Stanley told a newly hired assistant coach Sharonna Alexander to either resign or have an abortion because she felt that the demands of motherhood would not allow her to do justice to her job and presumbly vice-versa. Stanley is... Sign in to see full entry.

Does Augusta National, birthplace and home of the world's most prestigious golf tournament, the Masters have the right to exclude people from its club membership on the basis of gender? Its membership represents the country's most powerful CEO's and we know that most of them continue to be men. The... Sign in to see full entry.

Ellen Goodman: Worrying about women's success Ellen Goodman Boston Globe Published Sep 3, 2002 BOSTON -- I know that educated women have always made some people nervous. In 1873, when less than 15 percent of the college students were female, Harvard's Edward Clarke explained scientifically how... Sign in to see full entry.