Ms. Cathy Young, a writer and journalist, was born in Moscow, Russia in 1963, and came to the United States in 1980. From 1993 to 2000, Ms. Young wrote a weekly column for The Detroit News. From 2000 to 2007, she was a weekly columnist for The Boston Globe as well as a monthly columnist for Reason. At present, she is a weekly columnist for Newsday, a contributing editor/feature writer for Reason, and an associate editor and regular columnist for Arc Digital. Ms. Young is the author of two books: Growing Up in Moscow: Memories of a Soviet Girlhood (1989) and Ceasefire: Why Women and Men Must Join Forces to Achieve True Equality (1999).