Cathy Young is Vice President of the Women's Freedom Network and editor of its newsletter. She is a journalist, author and public speaker whose topics have included gender issues, education, culture, and the legal system, as well as Russian and Soviet affairs. She was born in Moscow, Russia and came to the United States in 1980. She received her B.A. degree in English from Rutgers University in 1988.
Ms. Young has authored several books including: "Ceasefire!: Why Women and Men Must Join Forces to Achieve True Equality" (The Free Press, February 1999) and her memoir "Growing Up in Moscow: Memories of a Soviet Girlhood" (Ticknor & Fields, 1989). "Keeping Women Weak," is her essay published in Next: Young American Writers on the New Generation (Eric Liu, ed.). W. W. Norton & Co., 1994. Ms. Young is affiliated with the Cato Institute as a Research Associate, and co-authored, with Michael Weiss, Esq., the document "Feminist Jurisprudence: Equal Rights or Neo-Paternalism?", (Cato Institute for Policy Analysis 1996).
Since September 2000, Ms. Young has been a regular op-ed columnist for the Boston Globe. From 1993 to 1999, she was a weekly columnist for the Detroit Daily News. Ms. Young is currently a contributing editor at Reason magazine, and The Washington Post, as well as the Philadelphia Inquirer, Newsday, The American Spectator, and Salon.Com. Other articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, National Review, and The New Republic.
Her television appearances have included The Today Show (NBC); Crier & Company, Inside Business (CNN); 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 have included Talk of the Nation and Radio Times (National Public Radio) and numerous shows on stations across the United States.
Ms. Young has spoken before the Commonwealth Club of San Francisco; at the Sex Wars Conference (Institute of Contemporary Arts, London); the Freedom School (Freedom Communications Media Conference); the Children's Rights Council Conferences; the New School for Social Research; The Pacific Research Institute; and the Cato Institute. She has also appeared at colleges and universities including Boston College Law School, Georgetown University Law School, Stanford Law School; Boalt Hall Law School (University of California-Berkeley); University of North Carolina Law School; Northwestern University Law School; and University of Michigan Law School.