The truth about alimony
May 13, 2014
—Cynthia Lee Starnes Here’s a dirty word: “alimony.” Alimony has a nasty reputation as a device that enslaves men and demeans women—preventing divorced men from beginning new lives, and perpetuating… READ MORE
Category: Law
Should affirmative action be based on income?
May 1, 2014
Following last week’s Supreme Court decision to uphold a Michigan constitutional amendment that bans affirmative action in admissions to the state’s public universities, the New York Times’ Room for Debate posed the… READ MORE
Abortion: Race, rape, and the Right
February 21, 2014
—Gregory S. Parks I want to tell you a story. I’m going to ask you all to close your eyes while I tell you the story. . . This is… READ MORE
Who wants to work for a woman?
November 22, 2013
—Joan C. Williams The year my husband was born (1953), only 5% of Americans preferred a female boss. That number has climbed to 23%, according to a new Gallup survey. The… READ MORE
Who you know: How social networks hurt Black and Latino job prospects
November 11, 2013
—Daria Roithmayr In a recent article in The Atlantic, Derek Thompson highlights what many of us already know—that the burden of recent unemployment falls harder on black and Latino workers… READ MORE
Reducing children at risk
October 23, 2013
—Robert Cherry Today, more than half of the new mothers under 30 years old are unwed, and even enhancing the government support they receive may not substantially alter the risk… READ MORE
The “bad” mothers of children with disabilities
October 21, 2013
—Ruth Colker Blaming the mother is a long-standing cultural tradition in the United States. In the best-selling book, The Generation of Vipers, Philip Wylie invented the name “momism” in 1942… READ MORE
“I can’t call the police—he is the police”: Intimate partner abuse by police officers
October 16, 2013
—Leigh Goodmark On May 7, 2013, law enforcement was called to the home that Kendra Diggs shared with her boyfriend, Baltimore City police officer James Walton Smith. After hearing a… READ MORE