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A Guide to Hiring Women, Then and Now

By Wendy Kaminer Barack Obama’s appeal to younger democratic women is a source of great frustration to many of their mothers and grandmothers but a source of pride for me. It reflects what feminists of my generation (and Hillary’s) have strived to accomplish...

Separating the Girls from the Boys

By Wendy Kaminer Next fall, all academic programs in Greene County, Georgia public schools will be segregated by sex, if the Greene County Board of Education has its way. Last week, the board voted unanimously to mandate single sex education in all county...

Scalia is No Civil Libertarian

By Wendy Kaminer, Is the animosity of civil libertarians toward Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia, “misguided,” as Harvey suggests below? Not hardly; and it is not simply based on Scalia’s opposition to gay rights and reproductive choice, as Harvey...

A plain brown wrapper versus the real thing

By Harvey Silverglate The progress of freedom and legal equality is measured in sometimes subtle ways. A couple of days ago, I received in the mail my monthly copy of OUT magazine, a publication aimed toward the gay community but having articles of more...