TIME: Tina Fey has already crowned Late Night’s "New Queen"

By Charlotte Alter
(May 15, 2014 | Time) - Tina Fey appeared on Late Night with Seth Meyers to deliver her theory on the first woman to rule late night. Read more

"#BringBackOurGirls"

-- Can hashtag activism, #BringBackOurGirls, save kidnapped Nigerian girls?

-- "What can I do to #BringBackOurGirls?"

Louie, the fat girl and the psychology of mate value

By Bijan Stephen
(May 18, 2014 | Time) - All things considered, it seems like we’ve entered a new golden age of television: our break-room conversations revolve around the intricacies of Mad Men and Game of Thrones, or the misadventures of Ilana and Abbi and the Workaholics dudes. Read more

Malala Yousafzai: "Girls in Nigeria are my sisters"

Christiane Amanpour's Blog (CNN, May 7, 2014)

Reddit women protest at new front-page position

By Alex Hern
(May 13, 2014 | The Guardian) - Users and moderators of Reddit's newest default subforums have reacted in varying ways – from fighting back to opting out – after being thrust into the limelight as part of the site's recent redesign. Read more

Why Mother’s Day ads are so cloyingly sexist

By Amanda Hess
(May 9, 2014 | Slate) - Mother’s Day is Sunday, meaning that it’s time for children to thank their mothers for all that they do, and for advertisers to strong arm their products into this annual family ritual. Read more

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Monica Lewinsky's story is a scandal of Americans' double-standards

By Megan Carpentier
(May 8, 2014 | The Guardian) - Every generation has its Hester Prynne, its Tess of the d'Ubervilles, its Becky Sharp, its Emma Bovary. Monica Lewinsky was ours, and while our mothers (or our mothers-in-print) sniped at her and about her – and were amply rewarded for it – some of us sat silently in dorm rooms and . . . Read more

The morning muse of television

By Jacob Bernstein
(May 9, 2014 | The New York Times) - This is the current state of play in the high-stakes world of morning TV. When Amanda Knox gives her first interview the day after it is announced that Italian courts have re-convicted her of murder, she does so with Robin Roberts of ABC’s “Good Morning America,” saying the ruling hit her “like a train” while Ms. Roberts looks on sympathetically . . . Read more

Grab a dream and sing out

By Patrick Healy [May 7, 2014]

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Vivian Maier and the problem of difficult women

(May 10, 2014 | The New Yorker) - When John Maloof, a real-estate agent, amateur historian, and garage-sale obsessive, acquired a box of photographic materials and personal detritus at an auction in suburban Chicago in 2007, he quickly realized that he had stumbled upon an unknown master of street photography. Read more

Blurred Lines – or whether age-old sexism is finding new outlets

By Jane Martinson
(May 8, 2014 | The Guardian) - There's a scene in Blurred Lines: The New Battle Of The Sexes in which Nicola, a young woman who has been gaming since she was six, describes how she copes when fellow players ask her to show them her "pussy", or gasp at their masturbatory skills. Read more

River Island takes 'anti-nag gag' off sale after sexism complaints

By Mark Tran
(May 6, 2014 | The Guardian) - River Island has withdrawn an "anti-nag" novelty item from sale after hundreds of women expressed outrage at the high street retailer. The item, a £4 miniature football on a string, was pictured stuck in a woman's open mouth with a caption from a male figure plugging his ears, with a speech bubble: 'Will you put a sock in it!!!'. Read more

Is misogyny worse now than before the internet?

By Nina Power, Lola Okolosie, Beatrix Campbell, Bidisha and Joan Smith
(May 8, 2014 | The Guardian) - Earlier this week, Monica Lewinsky wrote about being "possibly the first person whose global humiliation was driven by the internet," and tonight, in a BBC2 documentary, Kirsty Wark is exploring whether men have a newfound freedom to be abusive to women, online and off. Read more

In praise of the Dumb Blonde, an archetype in need of saving

By Ann Hornaday
(May 3, 2014 | The Washington Post) - Does every era get the Dumb Blonde it deserves? The sisterhood-is-powerful comedy “The Other Woman” has become a surprise hit, presumably on the strength of an enticing premise (a wife and a mistress conspiring to wreak vengeance on a two-timing cad) and the fizzy comic chemistry between stars Leslie Mann and Cameron Diaz, who play the film’s protagonists . . . Read more

The New Star Wars cast has only 1 woman who isn't princess Leia

By Spencer Kornhaber
(April 29, 2014 | The Atlantic) - Today, director J.J. Abrams's team revealed who would be on the cast of his forthcoming Star Wars: Episode VII . . .

One person who's basically an unknown—Daisy Ridley. She has had a few relatively small TV parts, and Hollywood trade publication The Wrap writes that at this point, her age isn't public. Read more

The sexist reality that the Tony nominations just highlighted

By Michele Willens
(April 29, 2014 | The Atlantic) - The 2014 Pulitzer Prize for theater went this month to Annie Baker for her play The Flick. The runners-up were Lisa Kron and Jeanine Tesori for Fun Home, and Madeleine George for The Curious Case of the Watson Intelligence. Read more

Magazine brings feminism to pre-teens

By Bea Appleby
(May 3, 2014 | The Guardian) - Haven't you heard? Girl Talk magazine, the UK's longest running girls' title, has gone feminist. That’s right, last month we launched #Girls Are Amazing and it's the first campaign of its kind for pre-teens. But what does that really mean? Read more

In praise of the Dumb Blonde, an archetype in need of saving

By Ann Hornaday
(May 3, 2014 | The Washington Post) - Does every era get the Dumb Blonde it deserves? The sisterhood-is-powerful comedy “The Other Woman” has become a surprise hit, presumably on the strength of an enticing premise (a wife and a mistress conspiring to wreak vengeance on a two-timing cad) and the fizzy comic chemistry between stars Leslie Mann and Cameron Diaz, who play the film’s protagonists . . . Read more

So 'debonair' George has been 'tamed', while 'tragic' Jen was 'saved' – no surprise there

By Hadley Freeman
(April 29, 2014 | The Guardian) - Poor George Clooney. Poor tragic, oldster, childless, longterm singleton George Clooney. Did you know he's over 50? Did you know he got divorced over 20 years ago and has not been married since? Instead, he has lurched pathetically, hopelessly from one failed relationship to the next . . .Read more

What we lose in Losing Ladies' Home Journal

By Sally Koslow
(May 1, 2014 | The Atlantic) - It didn’t come as a surprise when the Meredith Corporation last week announced its decision to all but snuff out the 131-year-old Ladies’ Home Journal, reducing it to a quarterly, newsstand-only publication. Unlike Hearst,owner of three other women’s magazines once known as the Seven Sisters, Meredith is a public company. Read more

North Korea calls South Korean President a “Dirty Comfort Woman” and “Capricious Whore”

By Katy Waldman
(April 29, 2014 | Slate.Com) - Some lovely words for South Korean President Park Geun-hye are pouring out of North Korea, thanks to a two-day trip President Obama paid to Seoul last week in which he and Park discussed tightening sanctions against Pyongyang due to its increased nuclear testing, revealed in part by satellite. Read more