One of the few women ever to write for Late Night with David Letterman, the author (Nell Scovell, a longtime Vanity Fair contributor) remembers a hostile, sexually charged atmosphere. What’s to be done? Start by breaking late night’s all-male gag order.

ABC's White House Senior Correspondent Jake Tapper blogs about NOW President Terry O'Neill's response to President Obama's all-male athletic outings that leave women out in the decision-making process: "We asked Terry O'Neill, the new president of the National Organization for Women, what she thought of those Democratic women and others quietly complaining about a "boy's club" atmosphere at the White House, as exemplified by the president playing basketball earlier this month with 11 members of Congress and four Cabinet Secretaries -- all men."

Jake Tapper interviews Terry O'Neill for a piece on ABC's Good Morning America: Is the White House too much of a boy's club?

Liza Mundy reports for the Washington Post that "twenty-five years ago, as an exceptionally gifted graduate student at the University of California at Berkeley, [the Nobel Peace Prize winner Carol] Greider, now 48, visited her lab to check an experiment, and discovered evidence of an enzyme called telomerase."

David Crary of the Associated Press in New York interviews NOW President Terry O'Neill on what she's done since being elected as president in June: "Men behaving badly. It wasn't a topic that Terry O'Neill expected to find high on her agenda as new president of the National Organization for Women, but she's tackling it with zest and determination."

Writing for USA Today, Dan Vergano reports: "Women had the 'right stuff,' too, back in the '60s. But the data on their performance tests were buried in the Mad Men era, and it was two decades before there was an American female astronaut."

Canada's Gazette newspaper featured an editorial about Letterman's workplace behavior is a set-back for women in the workplace: "What Letterman did wasn't illegal. To many people, it wasn't immoral, either. But for a lot of women in the workforce, it brought back the bad old days when women were routinely viewed as sexual objects, easy prey for male bosses. They'd prefer to think those days were long gone."

Watch NOW President Terry O'Neill talking about the Letterman controversy on a story that aired on ABC's World News Tonight with Charles Gibson: "Some people aren't laughing about the late night funnyman's recent revelations."

Watch NOW President Terry O'Neill on CNN Headline News' Joy Behar Show. Terry talks about how the Letterman controversy has brought up workplace issues for women: "NOW President Terry O'Neill tells HLN's Joy Behar that David Letterman is fostering a 'toxic workplace.'"

Julie Menin writes on Huffington Post: "To date, the public outrage about David Letterman's affair(s) of the heart has been pretty minimal. . . . Other than recent statements from groups such as NOW, women commentators and women's groups have generally seemed nonplussed about his conduct and haven't seemed to find it all that objectionable. I completely disagree."

NOW Action Vice President Erin Matson speaks with LA Times about Letterman's inappropriate workplace affairs: "The talk show host's revelation that he had relationships with female employees sparks impassioned discussion about hypocrisy and sex in the workplace."

Watch NOW President Terry O'Neill on Washington, DC CBS affiliate, WUSA on the Letterman controversy: "The President of the National Organization for Women, Terry O'Neill, said here Monday night that it is possible late night talk show host David Letterman may have violated federal equal employment statutes when he engaged in sexual affairs with female members of his staff."

The Gannett News Service reports: "Women should be allowed to serve aboard submarines, and the Navy is “moving out aggressively” to make it happen, according to the service’s top civilian."

Jaclyn Friedman writes for the American Prospect, "Last week, a lawsuit was filed accusing football player Ben Roethlisberger of sexual assault. In the blink of an eye, sports apologists turned the focus on the case from the athlete to the alleged victim."

Nicholas Bakalar writes in the New York Times, "A new study suggests that people give higher customer satisfaction ratings to white men than to women and members of minorities, even when their performance is the same."