I Took Action
Imagine the excitement that filled my heart when I passed my teacher test and landed a teaching job in a rural South Carolina county! But, I quickly found that my real-life teaching experience was going to be totally…
Imagine the excitement that filled my heart when I passed my teacher test and landed a teaching job in a rural South Carolina county! But, I quickly found that my real-life teaching experience was going to be totally…
By Sherry Shealy Martschink Way back in my college days, as a teenaged student at Columbia College, I was trying to get signatures on a petition relating to a controversial issue. One professor who signed the petition…
This opinion piece was originally published by the City Paper Editorial Board for Charleston City Paper One sure-fire way to put a sock in the continuing culture war over abortion is for more women to…
Originally published in LSE. Scholars often suggest that role models inspire women to run for office, but Amanda Clayton, Diana Z. O’Brien, and Jennifer M. Piscopo argue that…
I was running to be the Republican legislative district chair in my area some years ago and one of the delegates who would be voting said to me that he would vote for me, but he had a question: “How…
Another “Sister Fidelma” mystery (#34 in the series) will be published in July, and this makes me happy. For nearly three decades I’ve been an enthusiastic fan of these historical mystery novels, set in ancient Ireland…
From the pandemic to the cost of living, politics in the UK and beyond has, in recent times, been marked by multiple, overlapping crises. But what is the impact of crisis on the women occupying the highest offices,…
By Sarah Osmundson Dr. Osmundson is a maternal-fetal medicine physician in Tennessee. Before the Supreme Court’s ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, I did not consider myself…
Historically, key inflection points have driven massive change resulting in the rise of great powers, periods of enlightenment and scientific discovery. Following COVID, our most recent inflection point, life did not turn out as optimistically as the…
It was 60 years ago this year that the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his most famous speech, “I Have a Dream.” Six decades…