I don't ask people to agree with my assessment of what constitutes sexual harassment, only to consider in any situation at work, what is the intention behind their words? Is it to demean or make someone uncomfortable? Is it to put someone in their place? Is it to curry favor, or diminish?

With a team that is currently at 2-9 for the season, being a New York Jets fan is painful already. If you are a female fan of the J-E-T-S you get the added humiliation of being sexually harassed at halftime. ...on Sunday, several hundred men lined one of Giants Stadium’s two pedestrian ramps at Gate D. Three deep in some areas, they whistled and jumped up and down. Then they began an obscenity-laced chant, demanding that the few women in the gathering expose their breasts.

When Associate Justice Clarence Thomas was nominated to the Supreme Court, back in 1991, his supporters wove a narrative about him that emphasized his character, intelligence and education, instead of more traditional qualifications such as experience before the Court or on the bench. Thomas had only been a judge for 18 months before the nomination, and had run two federal agencies and worked as a Congressional aide before that.

After attending a BlogHer07 panel on Women Across the World, it was clear to me that blogging was going to be a powerful tool for social change in societies grappling with the pangs of nation-building. And women are going to seize this opportunity to express themselves, something that is just about starting to be acknowledged as serious.I'd like to introduce two Indian women who are doing just that. Here's my first hero.