"The biggest victory for women this summer— the Obama administration’s decision to require health insurance plans to cover birth control— came from DC ... Meanwhile a slew of reports ... expose the devastating toll the economic downturn has had on women ... in the past two years men gained 768,000 jobs while women lost 218,000 jobs— making this "the first recovery in which the unemployment rates for men and women have gone in opposite directions." (Quoted from article)