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Men’s voices dominate reproductive issues in newspapers

Most of the people writing stories about reproductive issues are men. Most of the people quoted in these stories are men, too.   Men dominate the...

Colorado’s wage gap is so bad even law professors have to...

Denver University is “the oldest independent institution of higher education in the Rocky Mountain region,” its website boasts. Absent from the page detailing the university’s rich...

Wiretap: Hillary Clinton embraces her gender and age

Settling in Gail Sheehy writes in Politico that it's taken Clinton, who would be the Grandmother In Chief, nearly a political lifetime, but she's finally...

In tight state House race, Benge slams Kagan for being a...

  The Republican newcomer seeking to represent Colorado’s House District 3 is running largely on one qualification – womanhood. A persistent, gender-loaded message underscores Candice Benge’s...

News Poem: ‘A Pathetic Fallacy’

The weathermen say they won’t / name hurricanes after ladies anymore ...

Colorado Senate Republican women vote ‘aye’ on civil unions, send strong...

Senate Republicans delivered Pat Steadman's same-sex civil unions bill to the Republican-controlled House Thursday with momentum and a message. Although the twelve Republican men in the Senate voted against it, the three Republican women in the Senate voted in favor of the bill, making the case to leaders of the Republican-controlled House to take up the bill with good faith and allow it to move beyond committees and onto the floor of the House for a vote.