Carrie L. Lukas
Managing Director
Carrie L. Lukas is the managing director of the Independent Women's Forum. Lukas is the author of The Politically Incorrect Guide to Women, Sex, and Feminism, which was published by Regnery Publishing in May 2006. She is also a contributor to National Review Online and a senior fellow at the Goldwater Institute.
Lukas appears frequently on television and the radio, on shows such as Fox News Channel's Your World with Neil Cavuto, Fox Report with Shepard Smith, The O'Reilly Factor, Hannity and Colmes, CNBC's Kudlow and Company, and MSNBC's Hardball with Chris Matthews. Lukas's commentaries have appeared in numerous newspapers such as The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, USA Today, The New York Post, Atlanta Journal Constitution, The Arizona Republic, The San Francisco Chronicle, and The Baltimore Sun.
Carrie L. Lukas's RSS feedRecent Articles:
Arizona Governor Signs Sweeping School Choice ESA Bill
May 15 2012
The Fight for the Soul of the Single Woman
May 15 2012
Keeping Politics Out of Mother’s Day
May 14 2012
May 11 2012
May 11 2012
Political Correctness’s Casualties
May 10 2012
Add Government-Worker Retirement to Your Taxpayer Tab
May 10 2012
We Don't Need More Government Subsidies to Bring College Costs Down
May 8 2012
How To Make College Cost Much, Much More
May 3 2012
Where Is the Study on the Health Impact of Perpetually Terrifying the Pregnant?
April 26 2012
More Government Bureaucracy Isn't Part of All-of-the-Above Energy Strategy
April 24 2012
April 18 2012
April 16 2012
The DNC’s War on Stay-at-Home Moms
April 12 2012
Discouraging Frivolous Lawsuits Isn’t a War on Women
April 11 2012
EU Cracks Down on Hair Dressers' High Heel Shoes
April 10 2012
More on Augusta and the Demonization of All Things Male-Only
April 5 2012
Title IX in High Schools—We Must Wait for the Harm
April 2 2012
How Will President Obama Feel About Gas Prices Post-Election?
March 29 2012
Women Earning More Patents and Trademarks
March 22 2012
Wouldn’t You Like to Know Where Your Money Goes?
March 20 2012
March 16 2012
March 9 2012
When Environmental Laws Backfire
March 8 2012
Name Calling About Name Calling
March 7 2012
Do Most Young Women Really Want Bigger Breasts Rather than a High IQ?
March 5 2012
March 2 2012
A Little Health Care Good News?
March 1 2012
Could Food Mandates Be Next for ObamaCare?
February 29 2012
February 28 2012
Costs Have to Count in Medical Decisions
February 23 2012
Mandates Are Anything But Pro-Choice
February 16 2012
High Gas Prices Need Long-term Policy Solution
February 15 2012
February 14 2012
We Need Honest Conversations About Cultural Issues
February 10 2012
You Don't “Insure” Against the Predictable
February 9 2012
We All Deserve the Freedom to Exercise Our Consciences
February 8 2012
Minimum Wage Laws Are A Recipe for Higher Unemployment
February 7 2012
From the Super Bowl on to Valentine's Day
February 6 2012
Senators Shouldn't Harass Private Charities About Their Funding Decisions
February 3 2012
We Do Need to Care About the Very Poor
February 2 2012
Massachusetts' Lesson for the Nation
January 31 2012
RomneyCare and ObamaCare—Both Are Fundamentally Wrong
January 30 2012
The Post-State of the Union Age
January 25 2012
The Evidence Is In In Wisconsin.... Are Taxpayers Paying Attention?
January 24 2012
January 17 2012
Is It Such a Bad Thing to Want to Protect Girls From the Worst of Our Culture?
January 13 2012
Real Capitalism Isn't the Problem
January 12 2012
A Decade of No Child Left Behind
January 11 2012
Warning: Don't Set Yourself on Fire!!!
January 3 2012
MPR News: What's the Road Forward for Conservatives?
August 4 2011
The Talk of Connecticut: Paid Sick Leave
June 23 2011
The Thom Hartmann Show: Are Single Working Moms to Blame for Fat Kids?
June 6 2011
The Thom Hartmann Show: Vermont Committee Approves Universal Healthcare
May 18 2011
IWF in the News: Critics Go After Sexual Violence Legislation
May 6 2011
IWF in the News: But Buttons That Say $1.08 Wouldn't Be Helpful
April 26 2011
Fox News: There Is No Male-Female Wage Gap
April 22 2011
Fox News: Have We Bridged The Gender Wage Gap?
April 21 2011
April 21 2011
IWF in the News: Lukas: There Is No Male-Female Wage Gap
April 20 2011
Fox and Friends: Study Shows Young Women Out-Earn Male Counterparts
April 19 2011
IWF in the News: Wage-Gap Myth
April 19 2011
IWF in the News: Carrie Lukas does the math on the male-female pay gap
April 19 2011
The Dave Rutherford Show: Women and the Wage Gap
April 18 2011
The Jerry Agar Show: Women and the Wage Gap
April 18 2011
American Radio News Network: There is No Male-Female Wage Gap
April 18 2011
IWF in the News: Time to Stop Mining for "Equal Pay" Grievances
April 17 2011
C-Span Washington Journal: Wage Gap Between Men and Women
April 16 2011
Chip Franklin Mornings: Wage Gap Issues
April 14 2011
The Steve Maltzberg Show: There is No Male-Female Wage Gap
April 13 2011
IWF in the News: Paycheck Fairness Act Reintroduced in Congress
April 13 2011
IWF in the News: Are Women Actually Paid More Than Men?
April 13 2011
IWF in the News: How Wide Is The Wage Gap?
April 13 2011
IWF in the News: Barack Obama's Paycheck Unfairness Act
April 12 2011
The Thom Hartmann Show: Equal Pay Day
April 12 2011
The Thom Hartmann Show: Welfare and Other Issues
March 28 2011
IWF in the News: Feminists Dislike Media Narrative About Women Pushing America into Libyan War
March 25 2011
IWF in the News: Wireless Tax Is A Tax on Women's Independence
March 24 2011
The Mike Schikman Show: Wireless Tax is a Tax on Women's Independence
March 23 2011
IWF in the News: Barack Obama's Paycheck Unfairness Act
March 18 2011
The Thom Hartmann Show: The White House Reports on the Status of Women
March 8 2011
The David and Heath Show: White House Report on Women
March 5 2011
The Thom Hartmann Show: Policymakers Can Learn from Wisconsin
February 28 2011
IWF in the News America Last Among Peers With No Paid Maternity Leave for Federal Workers
February 22 2011
IWF in the News: Are Conservative Women like Sarah Palin Feminists?
February 14 2011
The Thom Hartmann Show: Obama's New Budget Proposal
February 14 2011
IWF in the News: College Sports Council Urges High Schools Fight Use of Gender Quotas
February 8 2011
IWF in the News: Arizona State Dean Calls Rumors of Bristol Palin's Enrollment 'Pure Fiction'
December 28 2010
The Randy Tobler Show: Obamacare Shouldn't be Advanced in a Continuing Resolution
December 18 2010
RT TV: Should Americans have to Buy Health Insurance?
December 14 2010
The Thom Hartmann Show: Clinton-era Tax Rates
December 13 2010
Minnesota Public Radio: The Republican Agenda
November 8 2010
IWF in the News: Major Conservative Wins in the US
November 3 2010
CBN Newswatch: Conservative Women Make Waves in Midterm Elections
November 3 2010
The Dana Show: Five Myths about Female Candidates
November 2 2010
The Kudlow Report: Ignoring the Great "Mancession?"
October 22 2010
What's Up with Terry Lowry: A New Agenda for Women
October 22 2010
The Thom Hartmann Show: More than One Reason to Oppose the Paycheck Fairness Act
October 5 2010
The Other Side with Charles Butler: Cash for Clunkers
September 20 2010
The Thom Hartmann Show: Big Government Threatens Women's Progress
September 14 2010
Free College: A Liberal Idea Worth Trying
May 8 2012
"Paycheck Fairness" Will Mean a Pay Cut for Men
May 7 2012
Julia’s Success Story Begins with Head Start?
May 4 2012
Is America Up To Solving The Coming Fiscal Crisis?
May 3 2012
It's Time That We End the Equal Pay Myth
April 17 2012
Ledbetter Is about Lawsuits — Not Equal Pay
April 12 2012
Is the White House Wage Gap a War on Women?
April 12 2012
Ending Augusta National’s Male-Only Membership Policy
April 3 2012
Parents Deserve to Know the Facts About Head Start
March 5 2012
Women’s Health Always Hangs in the Balance
February 7 2012
The Real Price of Free Pills? Our Core Freedoms
February 7 2012
The Perennial SOTU Canard of Equal Pay
January 25 2012
Misplaced Priorities: Environmentalists, Junk Mail and the Keystone Pipeline
January 24 2012
School Choice Can End the Battle Over Sex Ed
January 10 2012
In 2012, We Should Finally Reform Depression-Era Workplace Rules
January 10 2012
Happy 2012! A Look Back at the Best and Worst of 2011
January 1 2012
December 15 2011
Realistic Expectations: A Gift for the Holidays
December 13 2011
Who Decides Someone’s Real Value?
December 7 2011
Americans Don't Want Washington to Fail at Reform
November 22 2011
November 21 2011
Super Committee's Real Challenge Isn't the Budget
November 8 2011
Saving Social Security for Those in Need
October 27 2011
Apply The CLASS Test to the Rest of Government
October 25 2011
If We Can Change the Way We Communicate, We Can Change the Way We Educate
October 18 2011
High Schools Don’t Need Athletic Quotas
October 17 2011
Don't Give Cover to the Women-As-Victim Crowd
October 12 2011
Technology for Worse, and Sometimes for Much, Much Better
October 12 2011
Is Men's Stagnation Good News for Women?
September 28 2011
Political posturing or real progress? That's the debate about the Keystone Pipeline
September 28 2011
Bringing the Budget Numbers Down to Size
September 21 2011
Election in New York Shows Big Government Losing Support
September 14 2011
The Free Markets--Not Government or Unions--Will Create the Jobs of Tomorrow
September 13 2011
Losing Women: Obama Support Sinks to New Lows
September 6 2011
Just What the Economy Doesn't Need, Another Major Address By the President
September 1 2011
Krueger's Faulty Minimum-Wage Study
August 30 2011
August 29 2011
August 22 2011
Our Long-Term Debt--Not the Tea Party--Is the Reason for the Downgrade
August 10 2011
NOW Stands Up for Women, But Shouldn't Be Surprised by Newsweek's Tactic
August 8 2011
Rick Perry Leads the Way on Higher-Ed Reform
August 8 2011
Who Says Work Life Is More Rewarding Than Family Life?
August 4 2011
MPR News: What's the Road Forward for Conservatives?
August 4 2011
Maureen Dowd Rivals Nocera for Most Ridiculous Op-ed
August 3 2011
Desperate New York Times Sinks to Pathetic Lows
August 2 2011
A Woman Can Take Her Marriage (and Husband) Seriously And Still Be An Independent Politician
July 20 2011
Maybe Not This Time, But Social Security Reform Has to Be on the Table
July 18 2011
Beyond This Debt Ceiling Debate
July 5 2011
Wal-Mart Decision is Good News for Our Economy
June 21 2011
A Supreme Court Win for Wal-Mart, and Workers
June 20 2011
Policy Focus: Government Over-Spending
January 24 2011
Policy Brief #27: FMLA Benefits for Part-Time Workers Would Hurt Those They Are Supposed to Help
January 6 2010
Policy Brief #26: New FMLA Regulations Provided Needed Clarity to Law
October 10 2009
Policy Brief #24: National Health Care in Canada: Lessons in Rationing
July 23 2009
June 11 2009
Policy Brief #19: Hawaii's Lesson in the Perils of Universal Health Insurance
March 23 2009
Policy Brief #18: Mandated Paid Sick Leave: The Wrong Medicine for Workers
March 18 2009
Policy Brief #15: Expanding SCHIP Doesn't Fix Real Problems in U.S. Healthcare System
January 26 2009
January 22 2009
Position Paper No. 609: Excellence, Not Gender Parity, Should Be Priority for STEM Faculty
August 15 2008
IWF Policy Brief #13: Congress Should Commit to Restraining Spending
February 11 2008
February 5 2008
November 19 2007
October 26 2007
IWF Policy Brief #4: Eliminating the Wage Cap Won't Fix Social Security
October 6 2007
The Death Tax: Unfair, Inefficient, Bad for Women
November 9 2005
February 10 2005
Women's Economic Independence Report Card
October 22 2004
Taxing Independence: The Price of Feminists' Love Affair with High Taxes
August 24 2004
Recess from Reality: The Feminist Failure to Embrace School Choice
June 21 2004
Dependency Divas: How the Feminist Big Government Agenda Betrays Women
January 30 2004
