From Human Rights and Human Welfare, a roundtable on women's human rights. Unfinished business: An article on sex equality on the global agenda (and part 2). How can you save the world?: Social scientists have known for years that investing in girls has a multiplier effect, sending positive ripples to their families and communities. How women can save the planet: Empowering young women through education will help reduce overpopulation in areas that cannot support it and avoid extremism in the children they raise. A feminist case for war: Women's rights activists are conflicted over a continued US presence in Afghanistan. What does a woman want? Women want to be Swedish. From H-Net, a review of Making Marriage Modern: Women's Sexuality from the Progressive Era to World War II by Christian Simmons. An excerpt from When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present by Gail Collins (and more and more and more and more and more and more). Did feminism make women miserable? Barbara Ehrenreich on why a recent study on declining female happiness really stinks. From CAP, here's the The Shriver Report: A Woman’s Nation Changes Everything. Work/life balance is not a woman's issue: Men need family-friendly workplaces, too — so why is this issue framed as something only mothers should care about? Calling all male feminists: Erasing gender stereotypes benefits all of us, men and women. The Mismeasure of Woman: Somewhere along the line, especially in recent years, progress for women has stalled — this isn’t simply a woman’s issue, it affects us all.
