The equivalent of five jumbo jets' worth of women die in labor each day, but the issue is almost never covered.

Just a little help, a small security force, a bit of food, can save lives

The U.N. Population Fund has a maternal health program in some Cameroon hospitals, but it doesn't operate in this region. It's difficult to expand, because President Bush has cut funding

I think it's dangerous to be optimistic. Things could go terribly wrong virtually overnight

There could be a powerful international women's rights movement if only philanthropists would donate as much to real women as to paintings and sculptures of women.

I try to be careful about wording. One of the things I've tried to combat in my blog is the notion that journalists are arrogant and unconcerned with the readership.

America's education system has become less a ladder of opportunity than a structure to transmit inequity from one generation to the next.