Đã 8 năm trôi qua, tôi vẫn nhớ như in khuôn mặt tuyệt vọng đẫm nước mắt của cô học trò nhỏ.

“Không biết từ lúc nào đứa con trai bé bỏng tôi chăm bẵm bấy lâu nay lại “ngấm” tính bố, nó quay sang quát và đánh mẹ nó chỉ vì mẹ phát hiện nó bán trộm rượu lấy tiền đánh điện tử”, chị đau xót kể.

AUSTIN, Tex. — Former President Jimmy Carter on Tuesday targeted the mistreatment of women for the next front in the civil rights movement, calling for a multifaceted attack against abuses from pay discrimination in the workplace to rape on college campuses and global sex-trafficking of women and girls.

The book is a potent mix of memoir and policy that makes politics seem like a necessary evil, and yet it’s impossible to read Warren’s story without thinking about her meteoric rise in the Democratic Party and those Warren groupies on Connecticut Avenue. That makes the aw-shucks, I-just-stumbled-into-the-Senate anecdotes that propel her narrative feel inevitably like the savvy (critics would say self-¬serving) story lines that would play so well at an Elks Club in Iowa.

The Justice’s dissent in the Michigan college admissions case was courageous, as the attorney general said, because she dared to identify an enduring remnant of “white supremacy” still clinging to American democracy. Of course, the Justice did not use that odious phrase. She would have been accused of sensationalizing the issue. But her Republican colleagues in the majority on the Supreme Court must have felt the sting of her accusation.

Aggregation sites have been making hay this week of a short French film called “Majorité Opprimée,” which translates to “Oppressed Majority.” The conceit is straightforward: the world is turned on its head so that women hold authority and privilege while men are harassed, controlled, and dismissed.

Arlie Russell Hochschild, the sociologist who examined the burden of working women in the book “The Second Shift,” told me that since its publication 25 years ago, men have improved — but not enough. Back then, she said, “If you put a woman’s paid and unpaid labor beside her husband’s, and they both worked full time and had kids under 6, she was working an extra month.” Now, she said, it’s an extra two weeks.
That situation, she cautioned, pertains largely to affluent women. For less affluent ones, the issue is often men who are entirely absent. Equal-pay legislation doesn’t begin to address what these women need.

Over lunch at A.O.C. restaurant in Los Angeles, Ms. Pelosi (in a pistachio jacket and trousers) and Ms. Louis-Dreyfus (in an embroidered black cardigan and slim skirt) shared plates of roasted vegetables, cheeses and charcuterie, and renewed an acquaintance that had begun a month earlier at the White House state dinner for the French president, François Hollande. After some initial debate about whether Ms. Pelosi should be addressed as “Madam Leader” (“No, please. If Julia is Julia, then I’m Nancy”), the two spoke with The New York Times about political wardrobes, powerful women and empty nests.

What Soldiers Do
Sex and the American GI in World War II France.
By Mary Louise Roberts.

Twenty-three students signed on to three separate complaints, each alleging violations of a different federal law, against Columbia and the affiliated Barnard College, which were filed with the Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights. Such complaints have become more common in the last three years, since the department adopted a stricter view of colleges’ legal obligations, and warned that many of them were in violation.