100 Women: How US mothers are the new breadwinners
Seventy years ago Rosie the Riveter bared her impressive biceps and summoned American women into the workforce. Called to duty in the service of a country at war, women responded in the millions.
In the decades that followed, women's professional fortunes rose. Today they are chief executives and senators, doctors and lawyers, astronauts and engineers. They are also earners.
Almost half of all American women (40%) with children under the age of 18 are the primary or sole source of income in their families, according to a major Pew survey released this year. Back in 1960, the share was just 11%. It is a huge social shift.
Once, American mothers were dubbed "soccer moms". Then, after 9/11, we got to know the "security moms". Today's generation are the "breadwinner moms".
But to lump all these millions of women together is simplistic. This story of financial revolution is really two stories.
Military rape: Saxby Chambliss, hormones and problems at the top
The Senate armed services committee is holding hearings on military sexual assault. But the BBC's Katty Kay wonders if the attitudes of those tasked with addressing the problem are actually making it worse.
Gee whiz, there's a hook-up culture in the US military, where hormones are running rampant and before you know it, these things happen. Sew together the comments of a couple of elderly white men in positions of power (the US Senate and the Pentagon) and that's the grossly misleading picture that emerges of sexual assault in the American armed forces.
Pew study: Two different tales of women earners
A new study shows that in 40% of US homes with children, the primary earners are women.
A Pew survey found that of the women supporting their families, 37% were married women who earned more than their husbands, while 63% were single mothers.
Tributes paid to journalist Christopher Hitchens
I had the uncomfortable misfortune of sitting between Christopher and his nemesis George Galloway on the Bill Maher show once. The two loathed each other so much they would not even look at me in the middle for fear of catching each other's eyes.
And yet Christopher made the evening one of the most pleasant of my life when, at drinks afterwards, he told me I had never been hotter.