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The Common Experiences of Women Who Leave Extreme Religions
A new book captures the similarities among apostates from a wide range of religious groups.
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AMW Comics The Sci-Fi Comic Book That Portrays Gay Romance as Completely Ordinary
Artifice is a well-written, cleverly plotted action-romance with two likable, appealing leads who both happen to be men.
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It's Very Condescending to Tell a Childless Woman She'd Be a Great Mom
But people do it anyway, all the time. Why?
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The Perplexing Process of Getting Your Kid Into a 'Good' Public School
Is there any way to make the system more fair?
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Erik de Castro / Reuters Why 43% of Women With Children Leave Their Jobs, and How to Get Them Back
Parents could take on freelance, deadline-driven projects for companies.
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A Real-Life Window Into How Virginity Obsession Hurts Teen Girls
The Lifetime reality series Preachers' Daughters shows what happens when families become fixated on "purity."
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Do Kids Care If Their Parents Adhere to Traditional Gender Roles?
Probably not. They just want someone to be nurturing and someone to provide structure.
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Surrogacy: Joyful, Frightening, Always Risky
The story of two families who had babies via surrogate, with very different experiences
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Good Day Care Was Once a Top Feminist Priority, and It Should Be Again
1971's Child Development Act would have established federally funded community centers, but President Nixon vetoed the bill and the movement lost steam.
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Women's Employment and the Decline in Marriage Are No Longer Related
For a few decades, women's rising share of the workforce probably led to fewer women getting married. But that's not the case anymore.
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Imagine There's No Gender: The Long History of Feminist Utopian Literature
From Wonder Woman to Shulamith Firestone to Joanna Russ, visions of societies run by women or absent of gender altogether have existed for almost a century.
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Before I Forget: What Nobody Remembers About New Motherhood
No one should expect a woman with a newborn to be "on cloud nine."
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Healthy, Affordable Fast Food: Feminism's Holy Grail
Life would be so much easier for working parents if they could easily buy inexpensive meals for their families.
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21 Books Written by and About Women That Men Would Benefit From Reading
From Tina Fey's memoir to Margaret Atwood and Octavia Butler's dystopias, these works offer a window into the female experience.
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Boston Public Library I Refuse to Be a Grown-Up
Secrets to looking young at 45
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Men and Women Tend to Argue About Different Things, in Different Ways
Talking to the experts about how fighting varies by gender
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Till Divorce Do Us Part: Being Married Briefly Can Be a Blessing
The belief that marriage is permanent helps sustain unions worth saving. But some people are better off divorced.
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Anthony Weiner and Huma Abedin: On Work as Relief From Personal Problems
After Weiner's Twitter scandal broke, they both turned to their jobs for solace. But that strategy worked for only one of them.
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A Cost of the Stigma Against Nudity: Blackmailed Teenage Girls
Society gains nothing from making so many people feel that mere images of their own bodies are cause for shame.
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The Benefits of Overpraising Good Dads (and Moms, Too)
It would be great to get to a point where men and women were recognized for their work at home.
