'Just World News' with Helena Cobban

Registan, Bloggingheads (redux), etc

I've gotten into a little argument with Joshua Foust over at Registan, over the chronic problem of the gross under-representation of women at 'Bloggingheads TV'. This is not a new...

Afghan women call for end of war

I just watched the 11-minute video clip "Women of Afghanistan", from Rethinkafghanistan.com. It is very compelling. At about 6:40 minutes, there's a great short interview with Wall Street Journal correspondent...

Women in the war zone: Gaza

Kudos to the BBC for publishing an agonizing (and agonized) short interview with Tihani Abed Rabbu, described as "bereaved mother' in Gaza. Scroll down here to find it. (But can...

On bank governance: A modest proposal

I couldn't help but be struck by the photo at the top of this article in today's NYT, showing the CEO's of the US's 19 major banks lined up to...

Gender and casino capitalism

I hate to get into reductionist pop psychology but it is very evident that the vast heaving masses of traders one sees in all the photos of trading exchanges, and...

Annals of gender exclusion, Part XXXVI: Bloggingheads

It's been nearly four years since I counted the proportion of women published on the op-ed pages of the WaPo over the course of a month and found it to...