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Youth Will Fix The Climate-Change Crisis Or Die Trying, Says Activist
Kendall Kieras
Jul 11, 2019
News
Yes, A Woman Can Beat Trump In 2020. Here's How.
Lily Herman
Jun 13, 2019
News
Actually, Abortion Litmus Tests Are A Good Thing
Lily Herman
Jun 7, 2019
Strong Opinions
Child Marriage Is Still Happening In The U.S. & Around The World
Believe it or not child marriage is not just an ancient relic from a sexist past. Nor is it a problem that exists only beyond our borders. Child marriage i
by
Chelsea Clinton
Work & Money
Tech’s Biggest Challenge: Tackling The Pervasive "Confidence Gap"
As the tech community flocks to CES in Las Vegas this week to ogle over the latest gadgets, I’m concerned by the lack of attention paid to the confidence
by
Jennifer DaSilva
Strong Opinions
The Matriarchy Is Coming —& The Work Is Cut Out For Us
Sitting in a roomful of blustering men, Nancy Pelosi was the calm, cool center. As Donald Trump and Chuck Schumer jabbed each other with one-liners and Mik
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Rachel Sklar
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Why Is Marketing Female Pleasure Still Taboo?
Why is it legal to advertise condoms but not vibrators? It can't be that we value men's sexual pleasure over women's… can it? Polly Ro
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Elisa Kreisinger
Strong Opinions
How Millennials Are Affording Early Retirement
Dreading going back to work after the holidays? Maybe you don't have to. Meet the growing number of millennials who don't work. What is early ret
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Elisa Kreisinger
Strong Opinions Loosely Held
Are Anxiety Products Making Us More Anxious?
Fidget spinners. Gravity blankets. Tinctures. Serums. What is up with products that claim to cure our anxiety? Do they even work? I love my Gravity blanket
by
Elisa Kreisinger
Work & Money
Exclusive: A Music Video That Will Inspire You To Ask For A Raise
These days, feminism is ‘cool.’ In fact, it feels like no matter where you go, there are billboards, T-shirts, phone cases — you name it — clad wit
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Ludmila Leiva
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It's Time To Unpack White Fragility
White people can't all be racist… right? After spending 20 years running diversity trainings for big companies, Dr. Robin DiAngelo has heard eve
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Elisa Kreisinger
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
Strong Opinions
The Gender Pain Gap Is Real And Hurting Women
Women are more often sent to therapists instead of prescribed pain management solutions because doctors assume they are overly emotional. And when the pati
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Elisa Kreisinger
News
Your Reproductive Rights Are On The Ballot On Tuesday
Planned Parenthood advocacy and political organizations have been organizing and mobilizing our communities every day for the past two years.
by
Dawn Laguens
News
Trump Has Helped Mainstream Hate, But This Election Is Our Chance...
Over the past two years, our country has been engaged in an ongoing conversation about “civility.” From the Women’s March to NFL players who kneel in
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Chelsea Clinton
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What's The Deal With The Plastic Straw Wars?
It was dubbed The Straw Wars of 2018. The debate over plastic straws started when this disturbing video of a sea turtle injured by a plastic straw went vir
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Elisa Kreisinger
Spirit
The Synagogue Shooting Is A Turning Point For American Jews: We A...
Sarah Seltzer is a writer, a Jew, and a mother. The opinions expressed here are her own. Fear is instilled in American Jewish children early, whether it’
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Sarah M. Seltzer
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Are We Working Ourselves To Death?
We need to talk about the new employment “trend”: overworking. Have you seen this ad for Timberland that informs us that we’ll never be able
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Elisa Kreisinger
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Debunking The Black Woman Gold Digger Myth
Black women are the fastest growing group of entrepreneurs in the U.S. They're also one of the most educated groups in the U.S. So why does the trope
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Elisa Kreisinger
Work & Money
The Latinx Community's Complicated Relationship With The N-Word
Today, there are roughly 55 million Latinxs living in the U.S. — each one of us with unique cultural experiences. In our new series #SomosLatinx, R29
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Olga Marina Segura
Work & Money
Why This California Boardroom Law Is Really A Game-Changer
If you think California’s new law requiring publicly traded companies headquartered in the state to have at least one women on their board is a superfluo
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Areva Martin
Queer Voices
Hulu's
The Bisexual
Finally Gets My Sexuality Right
Labels can be a tricky thing to accept, even the ones we claim for ourselves. Who am I? I’m Irish, I’m a woman, I’m in a relationship, I’m bisexual
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Megan Nolan
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What's The Deal With Women Being Angry?
I never realized the extent to which women's anger and aggression had been a catalyst for change until I spoke with New York Times best-selling author
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Elisa Kreisinger
Work & Money
Rebecca Traister Says Women Have Every Right To Be Angry — And St...
It’s been one year since the New York Times and New Yorker investigation into the sexual misdeeds of Harvey Weinstein unleashed the #MeToo movement and a
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Ludmila Leiva
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What White Women Get Wrong About Feminism
When I asked Dr. Brittney Cooper, author of Eloquent Rage about the summer of BBQ Becky, Permit Patty and Pool Patrol Paula, she replied, simply, “wh
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Elisa Kreisinger
Wellness
Ford's Politeness & Kavanaugh's Anger Are Everything That's Wrong...
This morning, Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, the first of at least three different women to come forward and say they experienced sexual misconduct at the hand
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Lily Herman
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Why Most Obituaries Are Still Of White Men
Looking at the Obituary section of the New York Times since it's first publication in 1851, you might think that 75% of people who die each week are W
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Elisa Kreisinger
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Rent the Runway CEO Puts People First & She's Still Profitable
Why do salaried employees get far more benefits than hourly employees? This week, I spoke with Rent the Runway CEO Jennifer Hyman, an entrepreneur who real
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Elisa Kreisinger
Strong Opinions Loosely Held
Gender Blindness At Work Is Not What You Think
Professor Katherine Phillips from Columbia Business School says that, across five different studies, she found that women were more confident at work when
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Elisa Kreisinger
Fitness
The U.S. Open Final Wasn’t About A “Meltdown.” It Was About Sexism.
Lily Herman is a writer and activist. The views expressed here are her own. The final women’s match of the U.S. Open was an exciting pairing: Serena Will
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Lily Herman
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