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Landon Peoples
Jan 11, 2019
Politics
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Honors Single Mothers In An Emotional Note To Her Mamá
Alejandra Salazar
Jan 5, 2019
Entertainment News
Weinstein Survivors Are Calling Out Time’s Up For Leaving Them Out Of An ...
Sara Hendricks
Jan 5, 2019
Music
Will Coachella Set The Stage For A More Woman-Friendly Festival C...
In 2018, nearly every major music festival was blasted for their lack of gender equity. There were objections to their lineup announcements, which failed t
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Courtney E. Smith
Pop Culture
Scarlett Johansson Speaks Out On Deepfake Porn, Calls It “A Lost ...
Scarlett Johansson has, unfortunately, experienced appalling invasions of her privacy since she’s been in the public eye. She was one of the numerous vic
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Meagan Fredette
Work & Money
California's #MeToo Law Is About To Go Into Effect. Here's What I...
California is one of the states leading the way to lasting change by restricting the use of non-disclosure agreements. The new law will go into effect on J
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Sarah Midkiff
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Work & Money
Fortune's 2018 Businessperson Of The Year Is A Woman — For The Fi...
Every year, Fortune rolls out its famed Businessperson of the Year list. Comprised of individuals who meet a number of financial metrics — including prof
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Ludmila Leiva
Movies
On The Basis Of Sex
Almost Didn’t Happen Because The Hus...
Hidden in the fascinating details of how On the Basis of Sex got made (Ruth Bader Ginsburg held 11 p.m. meetings about the movie and rightly seemed to thin
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Courtney E. Smith
Work & Money
The Morning After
After a #MeToo shake-up, one of the country’s top ad agencies replaced all their leading men with women. Now what?
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Amelia Harnish
Matriarchy Rising
What Is The Matriarchy?
The year of our Lordesse 2018 proved historically traumatic (#MeToo reckonings, all things Trump), triumphant (midterm victories), and transformative for A
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R29 Editors
US News
Amidst Women's March Drama, At Least One Major Feminist Group Is ...
Planned Parenthood is sticking with the national Women’s March organization as the embattled activist group that sprung to life in the wake of President
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Torey Van Oot
Wellness
NBC's Rebecca Lowe & Kathryn Tappen Talk Equality For Women In Sp...
In a sea of rowdy sports fans who are quite awake and vocal despite the early morning hour, stands two of NBC's staple broadcasters. Rebecca Lowe and
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Mary Paige Nesfeder
Cultural Issues & Equal Rights
Why Stephanie Gilmore Is The Equality Icon We All Need Right Now
Whether you're an avid surf fan or all of your surfing knowledge comes from watching Blue Crush, the name Stephanie Gilmore should mean something to y
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Mary Paige Nesfeder
Music
The Grammys Are Bowing Down To Women & It's About Time
The last Grammy Awards were a true shit show for the representation of women. The one woman nominated for Album of the Year, Lorde, was not invited to perf
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Courtney E. Smith
Movies
Brie Larson Plans To Change Hollywood's Press Tour Industrial Com...
Brie Larson, the woman who will soon play Captain Marvel, is putting on her superhero cape in her real life, too by working with Time's Up to change H
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Rebecca Farley
News
Woman's Girlfriend Kicked Out Of UT Austin Dorm For Making People...
On November 14, the administrators of Kaj Baker's private all-women's dorm, Scottish Rite Dormitory at the University of Texas at Austin, called
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Natalie Gontcharova
Wellness
The Transgender Community Still Faces Unfathomable Levels Of Viol...
On the heels of historic election campaigns for Danica Roem and Christine Hallquist, it's important to remember where we came from — and how far we
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Mary Paige Nesfeder
Fashion
Why Trans Awareness Week Matters To This Filipina-American Model
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Landon Peoples
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Work & Money
I Have A $3 Million Company — But My Parents Want Me To Get Marri...
As told to by Anonymous. I’m 26, run a $3-million fashion company, and I don’t date the way most Americans do: I want an arranged marriage. I was born
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Ludmila Leiva
Tech
Melinda Gates: What #MeToo Meant For Venture Capitalists
Several months before the first allegations against Harvey Weinstein hit the news and the #MeToo movement, started by Tarana Burke, went global, the ventur
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Melinda Gates
Music
Spotify Just Launched A Tool To Help Balance The Massive Gender G...
Last month, in an interview about her new album, Alessia Cara spoke to Refinery29 about the state of women in music. “People rarely ever believe that
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Courtney E. Smith
Politics
The Glass Ceiling-Shattering Midterms Are Inspiring More Women To...
As we well know by now, Tuesday’s midterm elections were a major day for women on the ballot. Female candidates across the country shattered ceilings and
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Torey Van Oot
Music
Kelsea Ballerini Takes A Big Swipe At The Bro-Centric Country Cha...
Country singer Kelsea Ballerini may have been singing about an ex in her new her song “Miss Me More” (the video just dropped this week), but her outrig
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Sarah Midkiff
Stores
Victoria's Secret Executive Apologizes For Anti-Trans Comments Af...
Victoria’s Secret may pride themselves on being “culturally diverse” for featuring models from different backgrounds and of different ethnicities, bu
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Alexis Reliford
Work & Money
"Time Is Up!" What Google's New York Workers Have To Say About Th...
A few minutes before 11:10 a.m. EST on the morning of November 1, the warm autumn sun beat down on the facade of Google’s New York City headquarters. A s
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Ludmila Leiva
Work & Money
10 Latinas Share What They Wish They'd Known At The Start Of Thei...
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Ludmila Leiva
Work & Money
These Men Get Real About How To Be Good Allies To Women
Since the words “me too” overtook our national cultural dialogue this time last year, dynamics between men and women — and, indeed, across th
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Ludmila Leiva
Politics
The Pittsburgh Shooting Proves Trump Emboldens Racists — & Social...
Emily Gorcenski is a survivor of white supremacist attacks at the Charlottesville, VA rally and an activist. The opinions expressed here are her own. This
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Emily Gorcenski
Work & Money
Until Managers Commit To Diversity, We Won't See Any Real Change
Latoya Matthews* has had a toxic relationship with a boss. And, though their immediate boss' toxicity trickled down from a superior, they often ended
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Ludmila Leiva
Politics
How Trump Plans To Eliminate Transgender Recognition & How To Fig...
This weekend, The New York Times reported that the Trump administration is considering implementing a strict definition of gender as “a biological, immut
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Alejandra Salazar
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