On NPR's website, Jennifer Pozner writes: "Think carefully: can you remember any passionate TV news debates about whether journalists or voters might want to get naked with Dick Cheney? No? Good. Because such an insulting, irrelevant topic would—and should—never be considered newsworthy. Unfortunately, this sort of drivel frequently passes for journalism when the politician at the center of the story is female."

Emily Bazelon writes for the New York Times about her interview with Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. "As the only woman working alongside eight men -- Ginsburg has a unique perspective on what's at stake in Sotomayor's nomination. I sat down with the 76-year-old justice last week to talk about women on the bench and their effect on the dynamics and decisions of the court."

Dave Zirn writes for The Nation: "Women athletes find themselves in the same vise they have been in for a century: with sexism on one side and homophobia on the other. Accepting this sexist construct has become conventional wisdom for how to market and sell women's sports: sex, and specifically hetero sex, sells."

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."

Joan Biskupic writes in USA Today, "In the term that ended Monday, the Supreme Court shifted more to the right, making it harder for people to bring civil rights claims, rejecting challenges by environmentalists and raising the standard for older workers alleging bias on the job."

Emily Bazar writes in USA Today, "Iranian women have been on the front lines of anti-government protests challenging the official results of the June 12 election, in which President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was declared the victor."

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."

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. "