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Youtube Women Appreciate Good Booty-Shaking, Too
Jennifer Lopez, Iggy Azalea, and Nicky Minaj twerk for the camera—and a same-sex audience.
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Sarah C/Flickr The Weird Bipartisan Consensus on Over-the-Counter Birth Control
Suddenly, a spate of Republicans have come out in favor of over-the-counter contraception—putting Democrats in a tight spot politically.
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Luke MacGregor/Reuters Half of Americans Believe Gay Sex Is a Sin
For the most part, acceptance of gay marriage is growing. But according to a new survey, acceptance of gayness is not.
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Gérard Ducher/Wikimedia ISIS Has Recently Become a Popular Girls' Name
But it probably won't be for much longer.
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Bohbeh/Shutterstock Abortion's Racial Gap
Even as the U.S. abortion rate is at its lowest since Roe v. Wade, women of color are five times as likely to terminate a pregnancy as their white counterparts. Why?
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Lego Do Toy Companies Need More Women at the Top?
Lego has two women on its senior leadership team; Mattel has one. Is this lack of diversity holding them back?
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Parinda Wanitwat How Sugar Daddies Are Financing College Education
The popular website Seeking Arrangement sets up "mutually beneficial relationships" between wealthy older men and young female students. What the site doesn’t talk about is sex.
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Birth Control Without a Prescription
An unusual Republican proposal makes medical sense, kind of.
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IsabelleAcatauassu/Flickr Why Girls Tend to Get Better Grades Than Boys Do
New research shows that girls are ahead in every subject, including math and science. Do today's grading methods skew in their favor?
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Kim Hong-Ji/Reuters It's 2014: Why Are Men Still Paying for First Dates?
The disturbing implications of a long-standing expectation
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John Cuneo The Serial Wife
What three failed marriages taught Margo Howard about love, life, and offering advice
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Tony Alter/Flickr Poor Women Tend to Be Fatter Than Poor Men
… and fat women tend to be poorer than fat men. Why the obesity-poverty link splits along gender lines.
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Randall Hill/Reuters 'Security Moms' Are Back—and That's Bad News for Democrats
In a time of national anxiety, women voters are again turning to Republicans to protect the country.
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Rick Camacho/Flickr 'Don't Let Sex Become About Status or Power'
A letter from a reader about a Christian approach to intimacy
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Mirko Ilic Ladies Justice and Liberty, Lesbians
Ten years ago, illustrator Mirko Ilic combined three visual cliches to create a fresh, enduring emblem for gay marriage.
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Reuters When 'Do Unto Others' Meets Hookup Culture
How Christians could talk to America about sex
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Adrees Latif/Reuters Are the New iPhones Too Big for Women's Hands?
As Apple starts designing for our bodies, it will have to account for the fact that they're not all the same size.
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Mary/Flickr Why They Stayed
For Janay Rice and other abuse victims, the obstacles to leaving are more complicated than many people think.
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Jim Kerlin/AP The Midi Skirt, Divider of Nations
The demure look returning to runways this year once sparked a cultural uprising as it edged out the mini and angered feminists.
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United States Marine Corps Archives/Flickr The Forgotten Female Shell-Shock Victims of World War I
Studies about the mental-health impact of the war have focused almost exclusively on men, to the detriment of the women who suffered on the front lines and the home front.
