Ms. Cathy Young Bio

Books Ceasefire: Why Women and Men Must Join Forces to Achieve True Equality. The Free Press, February 1999.
Growing Up in Moscow: Memories of a Soviet Girlhood. Ticknor & Fields, 1989.
"Keeping Women Weak," essay in Next: Young American Writers on the New Generation (Eric Liu, ed.). W. W. Norton & Co., 1994.

Journalism
2000--present Columnist, Boston Globe (op-ed).
Columnist, Reason magazine (contributing editor/writer since 1994). (Some of her Articles can be found here)
Contributing writer, Salon.com.
1994-2000 Weekly editorial-page columnist, The Detroit News.
1990-1994 Columnist, The American Spectator.

Author of opinion columns, essays, feature articles and book reviews in numerous other publications, including:
Newspapers: The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Chicago Tribune, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Guardian (England), The Orlando Sentinel, The St. Petersburg Times, The Salt Lake Tribune, Newsday, The New York Post, The Orange County Register, The Washington Times.

Magazines: The New Republic, National Review, Slate (online), Commentary, Insight.

Academic journals: New York Law Review, Sexuality & Culture

Topics include gender issues, education, culture, and the legal system, as well as Russian and Soviet affairs.

Research "Feminist Jurisprudence: Equal Rights or Neo-Paternalism?", Cato Institute Policy Analysis (1996, co-authored with Michael Weiss, Esq.)

Broadcast media

Television appearances include The Today Show (NBC); Crier & Company, Sonya Live, and Inside Business (CNN); Geraldo (CBS); This is America!, To the Contrary, and Uncommon Knowledge (PBS); Washington Journal (C-Span); Judith Regan Tonight and The O'Reilly Factor (Fox Cable News).

Radio appearances include Talk of the Nation and Radio Times (National Public Radio) and numerous shows on stations across the United States.

Speaking Engagements

2001 The Commonwealth Club of San Francisco
Boston College Law School
George Washington University Law School
Georgetown University Law School
Stanford Law School
Boalt Hall Law School (University of California-Berkeley)
2000 "Sex Wars" conference (Institute of Contemporary Arts, London)
Paternal Instinct conference (On Step Institute, Westchester, NY)
Freedom School (Freedom Communications media conference)
Suffolk University Law School (Boston)
University of Minnesota Law School
American University Law School
Catholic University Law School
University of North Carolina Law School
George Washington University Law School
1999 The Cato Institute
The Pacific Research Institute
The Children's Rights Council Conference
University of Washington Law School
Northwestern University Law School
Chicago-Kent College of Law
University of Michigan Law School
1996 CUNY Graduate Studies Program, Women's Studies Center (affirmative action)
Liberty Fund symposium, free speech in the academy
1995 Children's Rights Council conference
New York YWHA (panel on women and affirmative action)
1994 Sarah Lawrence College (panel on free speech in the academy)
1993 The New School for Social Research (panel on the future directions of feminism)
1992 Philadelphia College of Textiles and Designs
World Affairs Council of Philadelphia ("Women at the Crossroads" conference)
The Heritage Foundation
1990 Coe College (Cedar Rapids, Iowa)

Affiliations
1995--present Research Associate, the Cato Institute.
1993--present Vice-President, the Women's Freedom Network.