To The Contrary

Contraception Mandate;
Parental Custody Laws; Jezebel.com

SCOTUS reviews the Obamacare mandate. A celebrity couple's custody battle raises questions over a woman's right to relocate. Jezebel.com founder Anna Holmes talks about feminism and flaws in women's media.
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Men & Aggression;
The Cheneys & Gay Marriage; Child Brides

New research suggests men are not more biologically inclined to violence than women. Former VP Dick Cheney's daughters, Liz and Mary, publicly debate gay marriage. How education can help stop girls from becoming married too early around the world.
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Obamacare & Abortion Rights; First Lady;
EDGE Certification

The president delay's Obamacare, announcing the formerly insured can keep their insurance for another year. The first lady announces her education initiative at a local high school. A new certification rewards companies helping to progress women in the workplace.
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Sex Trafficking; Women Recruits;
Gillibrand's FAMILY Act

A new report card on states' efforts to combat modern slavery. Military does not see drop in female recruits despite increasing reports of sexual assault. Gillibrand's FAMILY Act promises to reward working families with new paid leave program.
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Full Episode

Contraception Mandate; Parental Custody Laws; Jezebel.com

Contraception Mandate: SCOTUS reviews the Obamacare mandate; Parental Custody Laws: A mother's right to relocate; ...

Webisode

Shhh, Don't Tell President Obama

During her annual visit to the National Children's Hospital, First Lady Michelle Obama, sitting with family dogs Sunny and ...

Women's News

Brazil's Cash Transfer Scheme A Source Of Empowerment For Women

December 18, 2013 | Read More »

The bolsa familia poverty relief programme has given women in Brazil greater freedom and independence. The impact of Brazil's poverty relief programme on gender roles and relationships is still being studied and debated, but cases like that of Da Paz are not unusual. Nor is divorce the only way in which the cash handouts are changing lives.

America's 'Virgin Births'? One In 200 Mothers 'Became Pregnant Without Having Sex'

December 18, 2013 | Read More »

The results of a long-term study of reproductive health, published in the British Medical Journal, have revealed that one in two hundred US women claim to have given birth without ever having had sexual intercourse.

First Ever MMA Fight Between Man And Woman Set To Take Place

December 18, 2013 | Read More »

Brazil is set to host the first ever mixed martial arts (MMA) fight between a man and a woman. In what could either be history-making sports news or the greatest stunt since, well, basically everything Terrell Owens ever did ever, Shooto Brazil announced today that it will feature a three-round bantamweight fight between Emerson Falcao and Juliana Velasquez, a woman who is sure to be played by Michelle Rodriguez someday on film.

Masculinity Question Still Missing From the Massacres

December 18, 2013 | Read More »

Now is the time for gun control advocates, mental health professionals and those working to redefine masculinity to form a new coalition that recognizes the irrefutable relationship between men and guns, men's mental health and men and power.

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Host Bonnie Erbe on the Life and Death of Nelson Mandela

December 05, 2013 Host Bonnie Erbe on the Life and Death of Nelson Mandela

Nelson Mandela was not only a heroic leader who brought down apartheid. He was also an unfailing advocate

for women and girls. He wrote into the South African Constitution that all people have equal rights and women have the right to control their reproductive systems. On paper at least, South African women have among the strongest rights in the world.

TTC Panelists Discuss Corporations and Religion. a High-Profile Custody Battle, and the Feminist Site Jezebel

November 27, 2013 TTC Panelists Discuss Corporations and Religion. a High-Profile Custody Battle, and the Feminist Site Jezebel

This week on To The Contrary, our panelists discuss the Obamacare challenge by corporations on religious grounds, the possible implications of skier Bode Miller's custody battle, and the popular feminist site Jezebel.

Our panel this week is: Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), Center for Equal Opportunity Chair Linda Chavez; Red Alert Politics Editor Francesca Chambers, and The Gender Equality Project’s Megan Beyer.

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