Statist Problems

• The Idiocy of Gender Equality
  - Adam Young, March 21, 2005 [Strike the Root]

• Orwellian State at the UN Women's Conference
  - Carey Roberts, March 9, 2005 [ifeminists.com]

• Jackpot Justice, the Wal-Mart Case
  In the Wal-Mart case, six women filed the original action in June 2001, claiming that the giant retailer discriminated against women in salaries and promotions. - Wendy McElroy, June 30, 2004 [ifeminists.com]

• Government's New Mommy Wars
  - Carrie L. Lukas, June 6, 2004 [Washington Times]

• Killing the Good Samaritan
  The price tag for decades of gender warfare is usually expressed in general terms -- for example, through data-filled studies that reflect how "boys" are slighted in education. The ordeal of Michael Wright -- a student at Oklahoma University at Normal -- captures the human factor. - Wendy McElroy, October 23, 2003 [ifeminists.com]

• Convicted Murderess Can Get Custody but Decent Fathers Can't
  Clara Harris, a Texas woman who was convicted of murdering her husband in March, was just granted joint custody of her twin five year-old boys. - Glenn Sacks, September 19, 2003 [Houston Chronicle]

• Feminist Law
  - Eeva Sodhi, January 13, 2003 [LewRockwell.com]

• Your Tax Dollars Fund Sexist 'Art'
  With gutless Republicans in charge, National Endowment for the Arts is squandering more taxpayer money than ever on things the Constitution makes no allowance for. - Carl Limbacher, December 18, 2002 [NewsMax.com]

• Why Males Don't Go to College
  To use a feminist term, our universities have become "hostile environments" for young men. - Glenn Sacks, November 13, 2002 [glennjsacks.com]

• Feminist Urban Legends
  A generation has been raised to believe that shouting is debate, defamation of character is argument, and valid research does not exist. - Wendy McElroy, November 12, 2002 [ifeminists.com]

• Why the democrats are the way they are
  If you wonder why the Democratic Party has regressed into sycophantic cheerleading for radical feminist candidates (such as the Hillary Clinton clones running this year), the explanation is in a new book called "Guide to Feminist Organizations." - Phyllis Schlafly, November 12, 2002 [TownHall.com]

• Careers are 'making women miserable'
  - Paul Stokes, April 25, 2002 [news.telegraph.co.uk]

• Gender Feminism's Global Blackmail
  - Wendy McElroy, April 16, 2002 [ifeminists.com]

• Hate My Father? No Ma'am!
  The university professor began the first class of the semester by announcing that she was an "anti-imperialist, anti-heterosexist Marxist-feminist." - Glenn Sacks, April 6, 2002 [glennjsacks.com]

• New Study Finds Myths, Misrepresentations In Women's Studies Textbooks
  - Glenn Sacks, April 1, 2002 [glennjsacks.com]

• California Mother's Triple Murders Show Cost of Ignoring Female Abusers
  - Glenn Sacks, February 5, 2002 [ifeminists.com]

• NOW Grabs For WTC Relief Funds
  - Wendy McElroy, January 8, 2002 [ifeminists.com]

• The Houston Mom: Medea or Madonna?
  "Besides irreparably biasing any potential pool of jurors, the Woman-as-Madonna myth making renders the victims of Andrea Yates faceless." - Ilana Mercer, July 17, 2001 [LewRockwell.com]

• Don’t Make Fun of Feminists
  "Government bodies are often wasteful and have a tendency to intrude upon our rights, those we have left. On the other hand, they occasionally provide us with comic relief and the present buffoonery at the South Carolina House of Representatives is a perfect example. But before I describe these incidents let me assure you that I am not making this up." - Gail Jarvis, June 27, 2001 [LewRockwell.com]

• Lawyers Report Rise in Arrest and Jailing of Girls
  - Sabra Ayres, May 29, 2001 [WENews]

• The Trouble With Feminism
  "Although it is always good to see attacks on feminism, the remarks against "radical feminists" published by Kenneth Minogue in the New Criterion raise more questions than they answer. Is there, for example, a clear historical and conceptual demarcation, as Minogue seems to think, between the recent unpleasant forms of feminism and the stages of female emancipation and female self-actualization that came before?" - Paul Gottfried, April 21, 2001 [LewRockwell.com]

• Gender Madness on Columbia's Campus
  - Wendy McElroy, March 2001 [Ideas on Liberty]

• Santa's ho ho is too hi hi for children
  "A woman hired as a Father Christmas is suing her employees for sexual discrimination after being fired because her high-pitched 'Ho, ho, ho' confused children." - Simon Davis, December 12, 2000 [Electronic Telegraph]

• Feminism and the Limits of Federal Power
  "The issue of violence against women has long been on the feminist agenda, and not without reason. It is, as feminists have said, a 'national problem.' But that does not make it, under the Constitution, a federal problem." - Roger Pilon, January 17, 2000 [CATO]

• Feminist Jurisprudence: Equal Rights or Neo-Paternalism?
  "In the past decade, feminist legal theory has become a formidable presence in many of America's top law schools. Feminist activism has also had a major impact on many areas of the law, including rape, self-defense, domestic violence, and such new legal categories as sexual harassment. However, the ideology of legal feminism today goes far beyond the original and widely supported goal of equal treatment for both sexes." - Michael Weiss and Cathy Young, June 19, 1996 [CATO]

• Prostitutes, Feminists, and Economic Associates
  A troubling situation has been haunting the issue of prostitution, and that is the growing antagonism between the Prostitutes' Rights Movement, as expressed through organizations such as COYOTE, and those contemporary feminists who are anti-prostitution, which is the major of contemporary feminists. - Wendy McElroy

• Women in Prison: Selected Findings - 1991 Survey of State Prison Inmates where 1 of every 11 inmates was interviewed. Interesting statistics that reveal how the "War on Drugs" has increased the female prison population, "...increase in sentenced drug offenders accounted for 55% of the increase in the female prison population between 1986 and 1991." - [U.S. Department of Justice] (PDF format)

Libertarian Solutions

• The New Feminism
  - Justine Nicholas, July 27, 2006 [LewRockwell.com]

• Arm the XX
  - Bill Walker, May 6, 2005 [Strike the Root]

• Female Libertarians
  - Allison Brown, October 25, 2003 [LewRockwell.com]

• Take Back Valentine's Day!
  - Wendy McElroy, February 12, 2002 [ifeminists.com]

• Good Will Toward Men
  Thoughtful women are fighting back against gender feminism's "war on men." - Wendy McElroy, December 18, 2001 [ifeminists.com]

• Real Mothers Don't Need the Mommy State
  "Parenting is, and should remain, a personal preference and choice, rather than a subsidized 'lifestyle.'" - Sunni Maravillosa, June 11, 2001 [The Sierra Times]

• McElroy on Liberty
  "Wendy McElroy, author and lecturer, is one of the most visible and prolific libertarian intellectuals working in the Austro-Rothbardian tradition." - posted November 14, 2000 [Mises]

• Liberty and Feminism
  - Richard A. Epstein, Summer 1999 [Independent Institute]

• Ludwig von Mises’s Legacy for Feminists
  - Wendy McElroy, September 1997 [Independent Institute]

• In Defense of Women
  Review of "FEMINISM IS NOT THE STORY OF MY LIFE": HOW TODAY'S FEMINIST ELITE HAS LOST TOUCH WITH THE REAL CONCERNS OF WOMEN
  Elizabeth Fox-Genovese
  Doubleday, 1996, x + 275 pgs.
  - David Gordon, Spring 1997 [Mises]

• Levin on Feminism and Freedom
  "Michael Levin's Feminism and Freedom is the work of a supremely courageous individual." - Walter Block, Fall 1991 [The Journal of Libertarian studies] (PDF format)

My Thoughts

• Women in Prison - From the 1991 Survey of State Prison inmates, it is stated that from 1986 to 1991, "a large increase occurred in the percentage of women in prison for drug offenses..."
  
  So, why don't we have an updated survey for 2000? Has the percentage increase in drug offenders continued to rise? With the increase in the DEA's budget, staff, and "determination," one would think so. After all, they utilize the "Zero Tolerance" program.
  
  Also, this is a survey done in state prisons. Since the Drug War is dictated from a federal level, I wonder what the percentage of women (and men) in prison for drug offenses would be. I'll include those findings (if there is data) on my page.
  
  I read somewhere that a lot of women are in prison on prostitution charges (another "crime" that is really an agreement between consenting adults). I'll continue to look for information on this subject.
  
  There is also another part to this story. In the DOJ report, it states, "Nearly 1 in 4 female inmates reported committing their offense to get money to buy drugs..." How else would you get $200 for a gram of cocaine???