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President of Concerned Women for America Penny Nance warns Breitbart News Daily, “we are at a tipping point in this nation,” and says “conservative women are sick of being left out of the conversation.”

Feminist Camille Paglia rakes her Democratic Party over the coals for using abortion as an “ideological tool” to raise campaign cash and drive votes. At Salon, Paglia offers a brief history of “the abortion wars,” inspired, in part, by what

Jennifer Lawrence opened up about feminism, her much-heralded essay on the gender wage gap in Hollywood, and her belief that society should create a “new normal” body type in a wide-ranging interview in April’s Harper’s Bazaar. “I don’t know why that word

Sesame Street unveiled a fresh face Thursday: a hijab-wearing Afghani Muppet named Zari who will teach kids about “girl empowerment, social and emotional wellbeing.”

Harry Potter actress Emma Watson has been accused of being a racist and a “fake feminist” after an ad that she appeared in for a skin-whitening cream three years ago went viral. Watson, now 25, reportedly appeared in an ad for

Breitbart Tech editor Milo Yiannopoulos stopped by the Adam Carolla show on Wednesday to discuss the myth of societal gender construction, the Dangerous Faggot tour, and liberal crazies. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BK0Xdt9pMQ0 Adam Carolla is a comedian and personality who has appeared on

It’s International Women’s Day, and third-wave feminists around the western world are taking the opportunity to raise awareness of the struggles that middle-class women face every day, like having to use tampons; not being able to walk around nude with just a pair of nipple tassels on; manspreading; and, of course, the phony gender pay gap. But here are six countries that won’t be celebrating today.

A man in Pakistan shot and killed his two sisters to protect his family’s “honor,” he claims, after his family forgave him for killing his mother, leaving him free from charges. This incident was one of a string of such “honor killings” committed recently in the country.

If someone told me they were from Australia and their name was “Sandy Beaches,” I might suspect that a prank was underway. Not so for The Mary Sue, the home of “geek and pop culture feminism” on the internet, who were convinced to run two hoax articles from an Australian man posing as a feminist woman.

Today, it’s conservatives and libertarians who are the new campus insurgents.

Actress Emma Watson recently announced she’d be taking a year off from acting to learn more about feminism — but that’s not all she’s learning about, apparently.

Two Missouri schools have fired clothing retailer Lands’ End as their uniform supplier following the company’s decision to feature an interview with feminist and abortion activist Gloria Steinem in its spring catalogue.

Women, people of color, and people who identify as LGBT will be treated to discounted tickets at the upcoming Cinder Block Comedy Festival in New York City, while straight white men have to pay more to attend.

A YouGov survey finds most Americans are rejecting the label of “feminism” and say feminists are “too extreme.”

Given the option of leaving their hometowns or risking radiation poisoning five years ago, families living near the Fukushima radiation disaster are falling apart, facing divorce, suicide, and cancer. The breakdown of Fukushima families comes as Japan faces a dwindling population it continues to struggle to replenish.

It’s a huge dilemma for progressives: on the one hand, it’s terribly patriarchal for a man to pay for a woman’s dinner. On the other hand, the gender pay gap of feminist mythology holds that women only make 77 cents for every dollar earned by a man. So isn’t the failure to pay just another contribution to structural sexism?

Breitbart Tech Editor Milo Yiannopoulos is set to debate controversial feminist Julie Bindel at the University of Michigan. The event begins at 7pm EST. Yiannopoulos and Bindel were previously arranged to debate at the University of Manchester last year, but were both banned from attending the campus by the college’s student union for reportedly going against the “Safe Space Policy.”

Milo Yiannopoulos attended a joint-talk with American Enterprise Institute scholar Christina Hoff Sommers at the University of Minnesota on Wednesday, during which he dispelled the gender pay gap myth, declared third-wave feminists were waging war on working-class men, and was protested by a group of the misinformed social justice warriors armed with air-horns. Yiannopoulos also shared his opinion on male feminists.

Feminist blog Femsplain has announced that they will cease publishing new content after running out of funds from their Kickstarter campaign in 2015.

To promote an upcoming debate between “radical feminist” Julie Bindel and “radical anti-feminist” Milo Yiannopoulos at the University of Michigan, members of The Michigan Review asked students whether they would rather their child had feminism or cancer.

Thursday during MSNBC/Telemundo’s Democratic town hall, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), a candidate for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination, was asked if he consider himself “a feminist” and if he understood the struggles people of color had to overcome in government and in

Milo Yiannopoulos attended the University of Minnesota on Wednesday to deliver a joint-talk with American Enterprise Institute scholar Christina Hoff Sommers, during which he declared that third-wave feminists were waging war against working-class men.

Breitbart Tech editor Milo Yiannopoulos will address students at the University of Minnesota today in a two-hour event entitled “CALM DOWN!! Restoring Common Sense to Feminism.” The event, hosted by the conservative campus magazine The Minnesota Republic, can be watched live

A large-scale analysis of 29 studies has revealed a “sexuality pay gap” between gay and straight women, with heterosexual earning significantly less that their homosexual counterparts. The revelation comes on the same day the British government announced their plans to

The United Nations is renewing its push to eradicate the practice of female genital mutilation (FGM) from the only community in Latin America known to practice it: the Emberá tribe, native to western Colombia. The centuries-old practice is treated so secretively

Planned Parenthood tweeted a comment about the Democratic debate Thursday night that sums up what they think about men.

Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards claimed the GOP has “abandoned” women as she stumped for Hillary Clinton in Nevada.

Indian lawyer Chandan Kumar Singh has attempted to file a lawsuit against the Hindu God Ram over mistreatment of the god’s wife, Sita.

Friday on MSNBC, Tamron Hall and Chris Jansing expressed their shock that some female New Hampshire voters are not enamored with the idea of Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton being the first woman president. One told MSNBC that Clinton’s “feminism”

Defying their stereotype as methodical, emotionless nerds, data journalists at the National Institute for Computer-Assisted Reporting (NICAR) have erupted in anger over a proposed shirt design they’ve accused of being sexist.

An anti-feminist pick up artist, reviled across the political spectrum, has cancelled a series of meetings around the world scheduled for this Saturday claiming he “can no longer guarantee the safety or privacy of the men who want to attend”. He had received

Veteran second wave feminist Germaine Greer has been honoured with an “Iconoclast” prize at the Oldie of the Year awards for her insistence that transgendered men are not women. Ms. Greer, 76, has written many times before that men who

A controversial pick up artist has announced a visit to Scotland, prompting a national newspaper to demand a “new law that will criminalise hate speech against women” and an MP to table a motion in Westminster “condemning” the events and calling

Feminist provocateur Camille Paglia says Hillary Clinton’s adoption of a “blame-men-first” brand of feminism that “defines women as perpetual victims” who need protection and salvation from the government could be costly to her campaign.

A group of Twitter feminists have decided that they are offended by the very language they speak, venting their frustration at the Oxford English Dictionary, which appears to be caving to their demands. The bossy group rabidly nagged the dictionary over

Responding to the lack of black Academy Award nominees, actress Julie Delpy said she believes there’s “nothing worse than being a woman” in Hollywood and wishes she were black instead.