Tag: female

By the time we spend countless hours at work, along with exercise and sports activities with opposite sex colleagues, we often end up associating with our "friends" more than we interact with our spouse. Not to mention, how easily technology and social media have created new platforms for friendships with the opposite sex—yet, again, not with our own spouse.

As society becomes increasingly more integrated among gender lines, the age-old question remains: "Can men and women really just be friends?"

When we consider the efforts that women have made over generations for equality, it humbles you.

Today while interviewing the president of Planned Parenthood of Southwestern Oregon, I learned that the early beginnings of the organization began with women sewing diaphragms that they procured in Italy and Japan into their petticoats. Many women were arrested when they were handing them out on the streets in New York.