The Paycheck Fairness Act looks like common sense, but instead of helping women it will hurt all workers. The legislation, built on 30 years of spurious advocacy research, will impose unnecessary and onerous requirements on employers.

It isn’t easy to attract 2,000 people to a conference on women’s rights. But Tina Brown, editor-in-chief of Newsweek and the Daily Beast, carried it off. On March 8, she filled an auditorium at Lincoln Center in New York City with mostly high-powered professional women and kept them enthralled for three days.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently released a study suggesting that rates of sexual violence in the United States are comparable to those in the war-stricken Congo. How is that possible?

Does the United States really have a sexual violence rate that is comparable to the Congo? In a Washington Post piece, American Enterprise Institute (AEI) resident scholar Christina Hoff Sommers explains how a recent Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) study is fundamentally flawed, and an example of careless advocacy research with bad consequences

Antipathy towards stay-at-home mothers goes back to the early days of modern feminism.

Women do not have an assigned place. Women are various. One size does not fit all.

Linda Basch is certainly correct that the entry of so many women into the labour force has been good for the economy, good for society and good for women themselves (I would add that it has been good for men as well). But she is wrong when she implies that full-time mothers have made an unworthy choice.