- Silvio Berluscioni, already under fire for alleged improprieties toward women, won't be gaining any female admirers from Italy's poor performance in the 2010 Global Gender Gap Ranking.
- President Obama says he is "deeply disappointed that a minority of Senators have prevented the Paycheck Fairness Act from finally being brought up for a debate and receiving a vote."
- A Ukrainian women's rights group brings attention to their cause by going topless.
- Google launches a shopping site for women who prefer to do their browsing in personalized online shops.
- A new site allows women to easily create temporary phone numbers that link to their cellphones, so they can change it without a sweat if that gentleman caller turns out to be a creepster.
- File under Things That Made Me Laugh Today: An instructive essay titled "How to date a women's studies major: Just don't."
- File under Things That Made Me Cry Today: A study finds that even preschool girls are deeply invested in being thin.
- "Young women often used alcohol to 'transgress social norms' of being female, then found themselves drunk and prey to the sexual advances of one or more young men," according to a study sponsored by the Australian government.
- Playboy TV is toning it down and reinventing itself as a channel for women. You know what that means: "nonenhanced body parts, varied body shapes and 'contextualized' sex."
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