This month, the Nobel Prize winners for 2021 strode across the dais in Stockholm to receive their medals from the King of Sweden. The final tally? Three times more men named David than women. Of 13 winners in six categories for 2021, only one was a woman. If you run…

I have spent a lot of my career representing women who have been fired, who have been denied tenure, who after a turf war with a male colleague get frozen out while the man gets promoted. Many decades after equality legislation came into force, this steady stream of cases where…

When the Great Plague swept through London in 1665, the grim work of tending to the sick and dead fell to women, often vulnerable women, the elderly, widowed, and penniless. They received no public accolades for this necessary but unenviable work. Rather, they were reviled and shunned as pestilential bandits…

Since its inception in the early 20th century, the Rhodes Scholarship has produced more than a few members of the American ‘power elite.’ The roster includes a president and presidential candidates, ambassadors and cabinet members, and among the women (only admitted in 1977), a National Security Advisor and Secretary of…

The tragi-comic difference between a female politician felled by a consensual, but “unethical” same-sex relationship and the male politicians (and CEOs and religious leaders) surviving numerous credible allegations of sexual assault and harassment is hard to ignore. But what effectively killed Katie Hill’s career in Congress wasn’t so much her…

Last presidential election cycle it was conveniently easy to lay the faults of Democratic defeat at the feet of singularly “shrill”, “robotic” and “uninspiring” (but popular-vote winning) Hillary Clinton. …

Calling the National Enquirer’s bluff might just work for Jeff Bezos. Everybody else still needs the law. Victims of revenge porn have gained an unlikely new champion: Amazon’s founder (and the Washington Post’s owner) Jeff Bezos. Apparently blackmailed by the National Enquirer over leaked sexy selfies sent to his girlfriend, Bezos turned the tables on the tabloid by posting the threatening emails on Medium, complete with the…

Ryan Broll, assistant professor of sociology and anthropology at the University of Guelph, published an op-ed in The Star this week about revenge porn. He argues that, even if revenge porn laws in his native Canada were strengthened, they could only provide victims recourse after the crimes have occurred rather…