Gender Issues

Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice answers question during a news conference after NFL football training camp practice, Thursday, July 31, 2014, in Owings Mills, Md.(AP Photo/Gail Burton)

Beltway Confidential

Ray Rice video shows what Debbie Wasserman Schultz was trivializing

Ashe Schow · September 8, 2014 4:56 pm

Democratic Chair Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz's criticism of Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker backfired. (AP Photo)

Washington Secrets

War on women? Wasserman Schultz helped lawyer who defends abusive husbands

Paul Bedard · September 5, 2014 8:31 pm

A letter to theÃÂ Watertown Daily Times asks RepublicanÃÂ New YorkÃÂ congressional candidate Elise Stefanik whether she has "a private relationship" with anyone.ÃÂ (AP/Elise for Congress Campaign)

Beltway Confidential

What women candidates have to deal with

Ashe Schow · September 5, 2014 4:09 pm

Schools should continue looking for ways to make accusers feel more comfortable reporting sexual assault -- whether to police or to campus administrators. But that comfort should not be obtained by hamstringing the accused and labeling them guilty before they've even had a chance to make their cases. (iStock)

Beltway Confidential

Campus sexual assault: The only crime where due process is shunned

Ashe Schow · September 4, 2014 8:23 pm

In this Aug. 14, 2014 photo, Sophia McIntosh stands for a photo outside a construction site where she works as a shop steward, in New York. The latest federal data shows about 7.1 million Americans were employed in construction-related occupations last year and only 2.6 percent were women. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)

Few women in construction; recruiting efforts rise

David Crary · August 30, 2014 4:49 pm

House minority leader Nancy Pelosi said she was never subjected to similar comments to those quoted by Kirsten Gillibrand when she took office as a House lawmaker at the age of 47, in 1987. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Pelosi says, unlike Gillibrand, she never endured sexist comments

Susan Ferrechio · August 28, 2014 6:25 pm

FILE - In this Thursday, Dec. 19, 2013 file photo, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, center rear, speaks with other EU heads of state during an EU summit in Brussels. As chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel may be the most powerful politician in the European Union, but she is more mirage than reality when it gets to the place of women in EU politics. EU leaders meet on Saturday to divide top jobs for the next five years, and after years of paying lip service to more equality among the sexes, it is plain for all to see, where are the women? (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert, File )

EU struggles with dearth of women in top jobs

Raf Casert · August 28, 2014 5:22 pm

The report shows that women by and large are turned off by GOP policies, especially women in the Northeast and Midwest. (iStock)

Beltway Confidential

Women to GOP: Get with the times

Ashe Schow · August 28, 2014 3:04 pm

FILE - In this Dec. 6, 2012 file photo, Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash. speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. On July 30, 2014, Cantwell, chairwoman of the Senate Committee on Small Business & Entrepreneurship, introduced legislation that would make it easier for women-owned companies to get loans and government contracts. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Cantwell targets small business loan gender gap

Joyce Rosenberg · August 27, 2014 2:12 pm

The secular left and others aggressively challenge Christian expression in public, arguing that our Constitution mandates a strict separation of church and state. (iStock)

War on Christianity still alive and well in America

David Limbaugh · August 22, 2014 10:52 pm

Labor Department officials have assured transgendered people involved in federal contracting that they, too, are protected by anti-discrimination laws. (iStock)

Beltway Confidential

Labor Department bans transgender discrimination in federal contracting

Sean Higgins · August 21, 2014 8:15 pm

It’s okay to be sexist if you’re a liberal attacking someone you disagree with

Beltway Confidential

It’s okay to be sexist if you’re a liberal attacking someone you disagree with

Ashe Schow · August 21, 2014 3:14 pm