In the second edition of "Women's Figures," author Diana Furchtgott-Roth shatters the myth of the wage gap, alleging that women are continuing to gain ground relative to men. Preferential policies towards women are undermining America's notion of meritocracy and are actually calling into question the value of women's earned achievements.

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.

The world badly needs a responsible, reality-based women's movement.

Women do not have an assigned place. In free societies, they choose where they wish to be. For at least five millon women in America, that happens to be in the home as full-time mothers. What is wrong with that?

Conservative women may wish to describe themselves as feminists, and they may offer a new model of women's empowerment that large numbers of American women find inspiring.

By the numbers, women have largely achieved equality in the U.S. For those who want to continue the fight, there's plenty of work left to do abroad.

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 United States is one of a few nations that hasn't ratified CEDAW, but a closer look at the content shows that the Senate has been wise to resist for 31 years.