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When you play ‘devil’s advocate’, you minimise the problem.
While 97% of Romance Writers of America members are women, only 14% are people of color.
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The group seemed to be doing all of the right things to diversify its ranks. It wasn’t enough.
Statuette of a female vulve called Baubo, terracotta, from Priene, Asia Minor, 4th century BC.
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An ad alluding to the vulva is sparking controversy, but there are few objections to phallic symbols. What explains this difference in treatment?
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Ireland’s new abortion law is a progressive one. But the resulting abortion service erects serious barriers for some people seeking abortions in Ireland.
The Queen Bee myth has more to do with how companies are structured than it does with women actually undermining one another at work.
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At a time when corporations are struggling to address gender gaps at all levels, killing off stereotyped myths such as the Queen Bee Syndrome is essential.
Men make more money in women-dominated fields, such as teaching.
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Men who work in female-dominated fields tend to get more prestige and higher wages.
Hari Ibu presents an opportunity to explicitly acknowledge the difficulties faced by janda and other women marginalised in their community.
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Janda stereotypes pervade the lives of the Indonesian women who are marginalised in their community, forcing them to live precarious lives.
Actress Olivia Wilde plays reporter Kathy Scruggs in ‘Richard Jewell.’
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The persistence of this trope might say something about the barriers women in media continue to face.
U.S. public opinion is divided over who faces discrimination.
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Marginalized groups said that they had experienced discrimination at the workplace, at the doctor and with the police.
In a recent interview, was Emma Watson embarrassed to admit she was single?
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Attitudes toward single women have repeatedly shifted – and part of that attitude shift is reflected in the names given to unwed women.
Young married Catholic couples in the 1960s were subject to strict religious teachings that decreed artificial contraception unacceptable.
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The ban on the pill led to much sorrow and frustration, but determined couples found imaginative ways to cope and work around it.
Amy McGrath speaks to supporters in Louisville, Kentucky.
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Voters tend to view female candidates as strong on issues like education and health care, but weak on national security. Female veterans might be able to overcome the stereotype.
Products like backpacks, beer and Q-tips are marketed in a gender-specific way.
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The sale of women’s backpacks is up by more than 20 per cent in the past year: but why can’t we just call it a backpack? Why does it have to be a ‘lady backpack?’
Women have to push through barriers to access higher education.
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Women face a number of socio-economic challenges that make it harder for them to access higher education.
Capital, family roles and stereotypes hinder women in business.
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The governments of the two West African countries could do more to enhance women’s participation in tourism.
Food didn’t become gendered until the late 19th century.
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In the early 20th century, women’s food started being described as ‘dainty,’ meaning fanciful but not filling.
Seventy-eight percent of the people executed for witchcraft in New England in the late 17th and early 18th centuries were women.
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Powerful men often proclaim baseless accusations to be a ‘witch hunt.’ But American witch trials have always targeted a persecuted minority: women.
Our systematic review found that sexual minority women experience worse treatment in the healthcare system.
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Health services are routinely falling short when it comes to providing care to lesbian, bisexual, trans and other sexual minority women.
Refugees awaiting municipal bread distribution in Akcakale, Turkey, Oct. 20, 2019. Three-quarters of the Syrian refugees in Turkey are women and children.
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Turkey is threatening to send 3.6 million refugees back to the Syrian territory it just invaded. Deporting these vulnerable people would make them the collateral damage of a chaotic, many-sided war.
From city to country girl, but will she stay?
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Life in the country isn’t all it’s made out to be in popular media. That’s what one group of women found who made the move from city life.