Gender Issues

DC orders insurers to cover sex-change surgery

DC orders insurers to cover sex-change surgery

Washington Examiner · February 27, 2014 5:27 pm

Rise in killings of Palestinian women by relatives

Rise in killings of Palestinian women by relatives

IBRAHIM BARZAKMOHAMMED DARAGHMEH · February 26, 2014 9:29 pm

From left, defense ministers, Albania's Mimi Kodheli, Netherland's Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, Germany's Ursula von der Leyen, Norway's Ine Marie Eriksen Soreide and Italy's Roberta Pinotti pose for photographers prior to the start of a meeting of defense ministers of the North Atlantic Council at NATO headquarters in Brussels on Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2014. Frustrated with his Afghan counterpart, U.S. President Barack Obama is ordering the Pentagon to accelerate planning for a full U.S. troop withdrawal from Afghanistan by the end of this year. But Obama is also holding out hope that Afghanistan's next president may eventually sign a stalled security agreement that could prevent the U.S. from having to take that step. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

For NATO, a first: 5 female defense ministers

JohnThor Dahlburg · February 26, 2014 6:11 pm

Spc. Karen Arvizu, left, puts on her hydration pack in preparation for her role as a volunteer in a physical demands study, Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2014, in Ft. Stewart, Ga. The Army is conducting a study that will determine how all soldiers, including women, for the first time, will be deemed fit to join its fighting units from infantry platoons to tank crews. (AP Photo/Stephen B. Morton)

National Security

Army study gives women taste of combat tasks

Associated Press · February 26, 2014 5:00 am

Clinton: Men also responsible for women’s rights

Clinton: Men also responsible for women’s rights

Steve Peoples · February 25, 2014 11:30 pm

Female soldiers train on a firing range while wearing new body armor in Fort Campbell, Ky. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey, File)

National Security

Few Army women want combat jobs

Lolita Baldor · February 25, 2014 5:00 am

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The fraud of ‘fairness’ arguments

Thomas Sowell · February 25, 2014 5:00 am

Hala Shukrallah, a 59-year-old Coptic Christian, who is the first woman elected to head an Egyptian political party speaks to The Associated Press during an interview in her house in Cairo, Egypt, Monday, Feb. 24, 2014. Shukrallah said that Egypt is not headed toward democratic rule and the military-backed authorities have little tolerance for dissent, criticizing their security crackdown that brought mass detentions and trials over the past months. (AP Photo/ Khalil Hamra

AP INTERVIEW: Female party head doubts Egypt path

Mariam Rizk · February 24, 2014 7:18 pm

Transgender athletes get OK by Va. governing board

Transgender athletes get OK by Va. governing board

Washington Examiner · February 20, 2014 7:16 am

A pay gap exists between male and female staffers at the White House. (Photo: Thinkstock)

Beltway Confidential

AEI scholar proposes ‘White House equal pay day’ to highlight administration’s gender wage gap

Ashe Schow · February 20, 2014 5:00 am

Feminist Gloria Steinem co-founded the Women's Media Center. AP Photo

Study: Hollywood execs have own ‘war on women,’ choking off major roles, salary from women

Paul Bedard · February 19, 2014 5:00 am

Former White House volunteer Kathleen Willey leaves federal court in Washington on March 10, 1998, after testifying before a grand jury investigating an alleged affair between former President Clinton and Monica Lewinsky. If conservatives and Republicans think resurrecting this old news will bring them electoral victory against Hillary Clinton, should she decide to run, they are mistaken. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Bashing Hillary Clinton won’t help GOP win in 2016

Cal Thomas · February 19, 2014 5:00 am