The buzz around the NOW office is that the most sexist ads appearing during this year's Super Bowl were the Teleflora ad, which promoted the idea that men should expect sex from women if they buy them flowers, and the Fiat ad, which depicted a hot car as a sexually provocative woman. more »

It is my first day at NOW. I have been waiting for this day since I heard I got the internship. I am armed with topics and ideas, but none of them seem good enough for my first blog post. So like any other twenty-something I take to the Internet. I want… more »

My glowing memories of childhood playtime are filled with Playmobil villages strewn across my basement floor and of pretending to be space explorers with friends, flying my swingset to distant galaxies. My dream job has always been to work at the toy and… more »

The film industry is still a male dominated world, but slowly this is changing. Two years ago Katherine Bigelow became the first women to win an Academy Award for best director for her movie "The Hurt Locker." As a woman, I was very proud watching her receive the Oscar -- it was history in the making. However, we still have a long way to go. Last year, women made up just seven percent of the directors of major motion pictures. Furthermore, women accounted for only 18 percent of all editors, 15 percent of executive producers, 10 percent of writers and two percent of cinematographers working on the top 250 films of 2010. more »

Yesterday (that's Sunday, July 10, 2011), Meet the Press ran a sex-segregated show with not a single woman guest.Could it really be that no woman was available to comment on the topics, the debt ceiling negotiations and the 2012 elections? Of course… more »