The following op-ed by The New Agenda’s Amy Siskind is featured on the front page of The Huffington Post.
This has not been a good week for Democratic women.
First, a New York Times op-ed penned by two progressive feminists noting two disturbing trends:  1) Democratic Leaders have been bargaining away our reproductive rights, and 2) the Democratic Party is not seeking out nor encouraging strong women leaders .  Then, a Los Angeles Times story descrying that hopes for the “Year of the Women” are fading.  Given the projected seats losses by …

Remember the 1990s and the Clinton scandals? Remember how, after a while, all the media attention was like so much white noise and it became a chore to pay attention? Remember how most people you knew wished those spittle-flecked Republicans would just STFU already? Maybe you don’t. Maybe you recall those as the Bush years and you and your friends just wished all those spittle-flecked Democrats would blow it out their ears for once? The point is that a constant barrage of hyperbolic negativity often …

Beverly Cooper Neufeld is VP of the New York Women’s Agenda and Director of the Equal Pay Coalition NYC, and formerly Executive Director of The White House Project. This article has been cross-posted from On The Issues Magazine with the author’s consent. The opinions expressed herein are those of the author, and not necessarily those of The New Agenda.
A small cadre of women rallied on the steps of New York’s City Hall on April 28th, 2007, the day known as a Equal Pay Day. This …

Susan is the Founder of the blog Amazing Women Rock, where the following article was originally posted. The opinions expressed herein are those of the author, and not necessarily those of The New Agenda.
The woman who was butchered and meat-hooked using photoshop for the ad featured in my last blog post may or may not have known how the image of her body would be used by advertisers.
But Canadian-born actress Pamela Anderson, whose boob-jobbed breasts famously drew millions of viewers to the infamously bouncing-down-the-beach …

The opinions expressed herein are those of the author, and not necessarily those of The New Agenda.
I just love this video, and I have to keep watching it over and over again. At first, I wondered if it were a commercial or preview for an actual movie. However, after looking through www.imdb.com and finding nothing, I think this is a video a bunch of women created just for fun. And it certainly is a lot of fun.
This is a nifty yet anachronistic take on 1800s women who …

Once upon a time virtually every American was familiar with the name Carrie Chapman Catt. For much of the late 19th and early 20th centuries she was the face of the women’s suffrage movement. Most Americans today don’t know many of the details of the women’s suffrage movement and passage of the 19th amendment, and those that do are generally more familiar with Alice Paul’s story than with Carrie Chapman Catt’s. We learn some of Chapman Catt’s story and celebrate her many accomplishments on this, the 39th annual Women’s Equality …

The following article is cross-posted from Unwritten Rules with permission of the author. The opinions expressed herein are those of the author, and not necessarily those of The New Agenda.
In our privileged world “Feminism” has become a dirty word. For most western young women, to be called a Feminist is an insult.
My son and his girlfriends associate Feminism with anti-men and women who wear unattractive clothes. To them the “F” word is, at best, dated and no longer relevant.
In the U.S., Feminists have become divided along Party lines …

The opinions expressed herein are those of the author, and not necessarily those of The New Agenda.
The current media frenzy about the latest female celebrity to replace her last name with that of her new spouse is sure to infuriate long-standing feminists who have fought long and hard for women to keep their maiden names …or not. You see, this time, the rules have changed, and they have been forever changed by Portia DeRossi.
The 37-year-old actress has filed a petition in a Los Angeles court to change her name from …

The opinions expressed herein are those of the author, and not necessarily those of The New Agenda.
Women in their 20s are enjoying sex in ways past generations have never known:  casual encounters, one night stands, internet sex, and even the ever-so-eloquently-named “f*** buddy,” this being a person that is there for the singular reason of sex, with no strings/ emotions/ feelings attached. Women in their 20s are enjoying pure unadulterated sex. Women are taking control of their sexuality and becoming equal and active partners in sexual rendezvous with men. We are assuming the dominant roles …

The following piece was originally posted on our blog on June 1, 2010.  Since so many of our new viewers have subsequently sent it our way since then, we are posting it again!
This is the story of our Mothers and our Grandmothers who lived only 90 years ago.

Remember, it was not until 1920 that women were granted the right to go to the polls and vote.

The women were innocent and defenseless, but they were jailed nonetheless for picketing the White House, carrying signs asking for the vote.

(Lucy …