Jackie Bischof writes for Women's eNews, "Women put in a strong showing at the progressive movement's largest annual conference earlier this month. MomsRising appeared among leadership groups and five out of six finalists for an annual award for community activism were women."

Katie Thomas writes in the New York Times, "In the suburbs, girls' participation in sports is so commonplace that in many communities, the conversation has shifted from concerns over equal access to worries that some girls are playing too much. But the revolution in girls' sports has largely bypassed the nation's cities, where public school districts short on money often view sports as a luxury rather than an entitlement."

Judith Warner writes for a New York Times op-ed, "By averting our eyes from the ugliness and tragedy that accompany some pregnancies, we have allowed anti-abortion activists to define the dilemma of late abortion. We have allowed them to isolate and vilify doctors like Tiller. We can no longer be complicit -- through our muted disapproval or our complacency -- in domestic terror."

Kate Harding of Broadsheet writes for Salon, "If any good can come of the murder of Dr. George Tiller, one of the very few providers of late-term abortions in the U.S., perhaps it's the opportunity to have a conversation about the reality of termination in the second and third trimesters."

Eryn Loeb writes for Salon, "Susan Wicklund has received death threats and worn a bulletproof vest to work. But what really scares her, she writes in 'This Common Secret,' is the war on reproductive rights."

Adam Liptak writes in The New York Times: "President’s Obama’s nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to serve on the Supreme Court, where she would be the first Hispanic and the third woman, has raised questions about how her background would affect her decision-making. But there is another question, too: How would she alter the larger dynamic among the justices?"

From Women's eNews, "The horrifying headlines about men who kill their entire families and then turn the gun on themselves appear to be intensifying. Katherine van Wormer says the harsh economy may be a factor, but more fundamental may be a distorted notion of manliness."

Katha Pollitt writes for the Nation, "Can we please stop talking about feminism as if it is mothers and daughters fighting about clothes? Second wave: you're going out in that? Third wave: just drink your herbal tea and leave me alone!"

Katha Pollitt writes in The Nation, "We are so used to violence against women we don't even notice how used to it we are. When we're not persuading ourselves that women are just as violent toward men as vice versa if you forget about who ends up seriously injured or dead, or pointing out that most murders are of men by men, we persuade ourselves that violence against women just comes up out of nowhere. "

Shahreen Abedin writes for CNN Health, "...Women are nearly twice as likely as men to suffer from major depression. They are three times as likely to attempt suicide, and they experience anxiety disorders two to three times more often than men. While these statistics are not new, their importance is generally underplayed."

One line from a 2001 lecture given by Supreme Court nominee Judge Sonia Sotomayor has come under fire. Read for yourself the context within which the line was delivered. The entire lecture is posted on The New York Times website; NOW's link takes readers to the pertinent section on the last page of the transcript.

Jennifer Finney Boylan asks in the New York Times, "Can we have a future in which we are more concerned with the love a family has than with the sometimes unanswerable questions of gender and identity? "

Shelby Knox writes for RH Reality Check, "An entire generation of American teens has been confused, misinformed and endangered by abstinence-only-until-marriage programs like these. They are not just paid for by the federal government; states can't use these dollars for anything else."

Joan Biskupic writes in USA Today: "Three years after Justice Sandra Day O'Connor left the Supreme Court, the impact of having only one woman on the nation's highest bench has become particularly clear to that woman -- Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Her status as the court's lone woman was especially poignant during a recent case involving a 13-year-old girl who had been strip-searched by Arizona school officials looking for drugs."

Helen Benedict writes in The Nation, "The military has been slow to recognize women as real soldiers, unable to shake stereotypes of women who have no business fighting and cannot be relied upon in battle."