"Women are the routers and amplifiers of the social web. And they are the rocket fuel of ecommerce. The ongoing debate about women in tech has been missing a key insight. If you figure out how to harness the power of female customers, you can rock the world."

"I recently wrote an essay about how, as a writer who is also a woman, I increasingly feel that to write is a political act whether I intend it to be or not because we live in a culture where McKinley’s article is permissible and publishable."

"VIDA's study raises questions about how seriously women writers are taken and how viable it is for them to make a living at writing. As we all know, small rewards and affirmations have a concrete but unquantifiable effect on one's writing life. So does silence."

"Why don't women stick around? Here's a guess: With just a few female sports reporters in any given market, the gender remains a novelty. A segment of each new class of young women is constantly fighting to gain the same ground a generation before thought it had already established. Which may be why my anonymous young scribe hasn't complained in any official capacity. She doesn't want to give the impression she can't hack it." Depressing.

"Extraordinary young talents are all the more dependent on the most ordinary sustenance. But instead of a home and a college education, what Barbara Follett got was author copies and yellowing newspaper clippings. This girl—who should have been America’s next great literary woman—was abandoned by the two men she trusted, and her fame forgotten by a public that she never trusted in the first place. Her writings, out of print for many decades, only exist today in six archival boxes at Columbia University’s library. Taken together, they are the saddest reading in all of American literature." The story of Barbara Newhall Follett.

"Presented in a blog format, espnW.com will offer fan- and athlete-centric content geared toward female athletes and sports fans aged 18+. The site, supported by a Twitter and Facebook presence, will incorporate posts by top female sports columnists and bloggers, pro athletes, expert contributors and news from a variety of ESPN and non-ESPN news outlets."

"If ESPN really wants to attract more women stop hiring bimbos just because they look good and get some smart, sports-savvy women on your network. Or, in the altnerative, hire some beefcake guys for us to look at, because John Kruk and Chris Berman aren't really doing it for me. Get women in the broadcast booth as well as in the studio. Hire more women to write for espn.com. Stop relegating women to the sidelines and personal interest stories. It would probably also help if your employees stopped sexually harassing women at the current rate. In short, treat women as equals, and more women will start watching your network."

"The key difference between the films that Mulvey dissects in her essay and the personal blogs I’m talking about is agency. The films were made by men -- men called the shots (literally) and wrote the stories that cast women in the passive roles. Obviously a personal blogger decides what to post on her blog. But while this difference is worth noting, it doesn’t seem to matter much in terms of the audience’s reaction. In fact, the blogger’s agency frequently becomes a weapon for the blogger’s critics."

"Because a useful, idealistic, transformative progressive feminism is not about women. It’s about gender, and all the legal and cultural rules that govern it, and power -- who has it and what they do with it."

"There is, I think, and we might call it not the problem with no name but the problem we can't define: the problem of unconscious gender bias and how it affects the ways we think about accomplishment and authority."

"I don't know what 'chick lit' is anymore, except books that are understood to be aimed at women, written by women, and not important. And I can't get behind that."

"In spite of what is now claimed, feminism has never been about empowerment through choice. You can't simply opt for power -- power isn't a fridge or an elliptical training machine. Any strategy in this consumerist register is doomed to fail."

"Sassy for the intellectual set." Not Double X.

"The women's pages are certainly good for women and journalism in the short term. But long-term change will only come from pushing general-interest publications to be fully inclusive of women readers and writers. The day Slate announces its spin-off site for white men, we'll know we've succeeded."

Profile and photos of Barbara Jo Rubin, the first female jockey to win a race, and the first to ride in New York (headline from March 11, 1969 NYT: "Girl Jockeys Are Invading the Big A"). Rubin won seven of her first 10 races.

Slate launches a new pop-policy magazine for women.

"Men explain things to me, and other women, whether or not they know what they're talking about. Some men."

"Welcome to the new, post-female American cinema."

Art and the Feminist Revolution/Exhibition of feminist art spanning 1965-1980