She Thinks

IWF executive director Sabrina Schaeffer sits down with Congresswoman Barbara Comstock in the latest "Working for Women" podcast. Congresswoman Comstock is IWF's 2015 Woman of Valor honoree. Sabrina and the Congresswoman discuss her leadership on Capitol Hill and being a fantastic role model for women and young girls. They also discuss the Congresswoman's future initiatives in Congress, Women in t...

Carrie Lukas, IWF's Managing Director, sits down with IWF Director of Health Policy Hadley Heath Manning to discuss the future of America's health care system after the King v. Burwell Supreme Court ruling. Is Obamacare here to stay? What will the future cost of health care look like? How do we solve the problems that keep popping up in the health care system? What is the path forward? Hadley and...

Hadley Heath Manning, IWF's Director of Health Policy, sits down with IWF Culture of Alarmism Director Julie Gunlock to discuss the unhealthy consequences of government nutrition initiatives. Government is increasingly meddling in American food manufacturing and consumption. Many accept these measures as harmless: what’s the matter with government nudging people to eat healthier? Hadley and Julie...

Hadley Heath Manning, IWF's Director of Health Policy, sits down with IWF Senior Fellow Jillian Melchior to discuss over the counter birth control. They answer many important questions that are on the minds of many women: Why isn't birth control currently available over the counter? Why are liberals trying to block Sen. Cory Gardner's legislation to provide over-the-counter birth control? What are...

IWF Director of Cultural Programs Charlotte Hays sits down with IWF Managing Director Carrie Lukas to discuss taxes and technology, specifically how taxes affect wireless devices. Charlotte and Carrie answer many questions in the podcast: Who benefits most from technology? Why is the government regulating and taxing technology? How does this affect individuals and families in a world that is growi...

For too long progressive women’s groups have claimed to speak for women and set the agenda. They’ve told women they’re a victim class in need of constant government protection. But that message is insidious and wrong, and the IWF is excited to have a more productive conversation about a path forward for women and their families. On June 4th, IWF will be hosting the Women LEAD Summit. In the podcas...

IWF Senior Policy Analyst Hadley Heath Manning sits down with IWF Managing Director Carrie Lukas to discuss transition from college to the workplace. Carrie wrote an article for Forbes titled "Seven Things College Women Should Know For Life After Graduation," where she offered advice to young women who are entering the work force. Hadley and Carrie answer many questions in the podcast that may be...

IWF Culture of Alarmism Director Julie Gunlock sits down with IWF Energy Fellow Jillian Melchior to discuss renewable fuel standards. Concerns have increased about the unintended consequences of biofuels. In addition to the costs of subsidies for taxpayers, increased use of ethanol has driven up gas prices as well as food prices, both in the United States and around the globe. Scientists are incre...

Would a government paid-leave program in the U.S. be the magic cure-all for all workers - particularly expectant mothers? Hadley Heath Manning, senior policy analyst at IWF, talks with Carrie Lukas, managing director at IWF, about what paid-leave advocates ignore in the work-family balance debate. Lukas, a working mother of five, highlights the negative consequences that arise from top-down, one-s...

IWF Director of Cultural Programs, Charlotte Hays, was joined by Diana Furchtgott-Roth, director of Economics21 and senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute. Discussing Furchtgott-Roth's new book, Disinherited: How Washington Is Betraying America's Young, they cover how our bloated entitlement system, minimum wage laws, and other big government policies negatively affect the future of young people...

IWF Culture of Alarmism director Julie Gunlock was joined by IWF and CEI Senior Fellow Angela Logomasini to discuss the alarmism surrounding the "collapse" of bee colonies. Logomasini did extensive work on debunking environmentalists claims that bee colony collapse can be traced to harmful pesticides. On the podcast, Gunlock and Logomasini discussed her report titled "'Beepocalypse' Not" and how b...

Feminist organizations and their liberal allies in Congress and at the White House celebrate “Equal Pay Day,” a made-up holiday predicated on the idea that women all suffer wage discrimination and are shortchanged compared to a man's earnings for the same work. IWF's managing director Carrie Lukas, co-author of Liberty is No War on Women, joins Hadley Heath Manning to discuss the fictitious holida...

IWF Culture of Alarmism Director Julie Gunlock is joined by Jillian Melchior, National Review reporter and energy fellow at IWF, to discuss fracking. What is fracking? How is it done? How long have we been fracking in the United States? How has fracking helped Americans? How will proposed regulations on fracking impact energy prices and American lives? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for mo...

Cultural Director Charlotte Hays sits down with Kay Hymowitz to preview IWF's important May 13 panel on the future of marriage--if there is a future, and the profound ramifications if marriage is no longer the norm. Hymowitz is one of the foremost thinkers on marriage and author of Marriage and Caste in America: Separate and Unequal Families in a Post-Marital Age. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/pr...

IWF Culture of Alarmism director Julie Gunlock was joined by the Dr. Julie Goodman, an expert in toxicology, epidemiology, and assessing human health risks from chemicals in consumer products and the environment. Dr. Goodman specializes in analyzing and interpreting epidemiology and toxicity data, apparent disease clusters, and chemical exposures. She currently works for Gradient, an environmental...

Next Wednsday, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in King v. Burwell case. Independent Women's Forum health policy director Hadley Heath Manning speaks with Grace-Marie Turner of the Galen Institute to discuss the case and why it is so important. What rulings could come down from the court? What would they mean? What are some important takeaways that the American people need to keep in min...