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Ruben Sprich / Reuters Should Paid 'Menstrual Leave' Be a Thing?
Some countries mandate a legal right to leave for women during their periods. Is that reverse sexism or the right thing to do?
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Reuters The Devil's Advocate on Corona Del Mar High School's 'Prom Draft'
What's the least awful way to arrange dates to the dance?
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Joe Penney/Reuters Education Protects Women From Abuse
Extremists hate smart girls because smart girls are less likely to be kept down.
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Reuters Jill Abramson and the Mainstreaming of Feminism in American Media
Not long ago, some of the key premises in the commentary on this week’s Times drama would have been considered radical.
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Brendan McDermid/Reuters All the Reasons Women Don't Go to the Doctor, Other Than Money
Low-income women in particular are likely to say that they couldn't get time off work or weren't able to find child care
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Kena Betancur / Reuters Jill Abramson and the ‘Narrow Band’ of Acceptable Female Behavior
The former executive editor of the Times wasn’t well liked because “aggressive” female leaders rarely are.
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Reuters The Republican Advantage Among Older Voters Won't Last
As life expectancy rises and the population ages, it gets more female and more opposed to entitlement reform. Those are both bad for a party of austerity.
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Natascha Yogachandra Teaching Positive Masculinity
Health advocates are engaging men in sexual assault prevention, challenging the negative aspects of traditional manhood.
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Parkwood Entertainment Beyoncé, Sex Terrorist: A Menace for Conservatives and Liberals Alike
By condemning the pop star, both Bill O'Reilly and bell hooks profit off her body while ignoring her art.
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Brian Snyder/Reuters How Welfare Reform Left Single Moms Behind
Nearly every government program has grown over the past few decades, except the one that helps poor, unmarried parents.
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batterypower/flickr What If Sanitary Pad Ads Didn't Use Blue Fluid?
"When it comes to your period, what's the first thing that comes to mind?"
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Stephanie Stamm The 5 Best and Worst States for Working Moms
Louisiana has one of the worst child-care systems and largest gender pay gaps, with women making a measly 72 percent of what men make.
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mac_filko/Flickr Are People Becoming More Open to Female Leaders?
Women bosses are seen as just as capable as their male counterparts, a new meta-analysis shows, but they rate themselves as less effective than men.
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christine592/Flickr What We Lose in Losing Ladies' Home Journal
Like middle-aged matrons who’ve had too much cosmetic surgery, women's magazines today are looking more generic than ever.
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Lucasfilm The New Star Wars Cast Has Only 1 Woman Who Isn't Princess Leia
Little is known about newcomer Daisy Ridley, but today's news hints that Episode VII may not do much to improve the old films' famous gender gap.
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AP The Sexist Reality That the Tony Nominations Just Highlighted
Today's most acclaimed playwrights are women. Almost none write for Broadway. Why?
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MCAD Library/flickr Why So Many Men Don't Stand Up for Their Female Colleagues
The traditional explanation is sexism, but even those who genuinely want to see more equality sometimes fail to speak out.
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Athit Perawongmetha / Reuters Why Do So Many Women Wear So Much Makeup?
Maybe she’s born with it. Maybe she’s succumbing to the stifling patriarchy.
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Paul Hackett/Reuters Could College Rankings Solve the Campus Rape Crisis?
A dozen House members want to hit universities where it hurts—their U.S. News & World Report rankings.
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New York Telephone Company/The National Archives Do You Have What It Takes to Be a Secretary? A 1959 Quiz
Question 1: Do you have "a natural flair for organizing the activities of others?"
