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Harris & Ewing / Library of Congress / ... What America Lost as Women Entered the Workforce
Civic organizations were built on the voluntary labor of women. As the demands on women's time increase, communities are suffering.
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Richard Newstead / Getty Why the Male Pill Still Doesn't Exist
Despite decades of research, it’s still only women who deal with the daily annoyances of contraceptive medication.
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Fabian Bimmer / Reuters How to Play Like a Girl
For toymakers like Lego, where is the line between making products children love and telling kids how they should play?
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Carolyn Kaster / AP The Federal Government Quietly Expands Transgender Rights
In a new ruling Friday, the Department of Health and Human Services said Obamacare outlaws discrimination on the basis of gender identity.
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Deep Velllum The Challenge of Genderless Characters
What a 30-year-old novel reveals about hidden biases
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Jeff Chiu / AP Will Toys Ever Go Beyond Blue and Pink?
Products marketed to children are more divided by gender stereotypes than ever, but the Internet is increasingly offering alternatives to Hot Wheels and Barbies.
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Adnan Abidi / Reuters Does Adding ‘Genderqueer’ to the Dictionary Make It ‘Real’?
A conversation about Merriam-Webster’s newest words with a professional lexicographer
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Andrey Popov / Shutterstock / Paul Spella / ... When Doctors Refuse to Treat LGBT Patients
A new law in Mississippi makes it legal for physicians and therapists to opt out of care on religious grounds. What does this mean for medicine?
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Matt Mills McKnight / Getty Images / Zak ... What's the Answer to Political Polarization in the U.S.?
From partisan gerrymandering to exclusionary party primaries, a breakdown of the factors behind our polarized politics, and common proposals to fix it
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A24 Female Freedom and Fury in The Witch
The film’s director, Robert Eggers, discusses how his Puritan horror story came to focus on the empowerment of a teenage girl.
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Bettmann / CORBIS / AP / Kara Gordon ... The Progressive Roots of the Pro-Life Movement
A new book looks at the history of anti-abortion advocacy before Roe v. Wade, arguing that today’s activists are much different than their predecessors.
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Lucasfilm Star Wars: The Feminism Awakens
Rey, the franchise’s newest breakout star, is a heroine fans can finally feel good about liking.
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Estrada Anton / Roman Samokhin / Shutterstock / ... In Defense of #BadSex
An annual award for literature’s worst coupling often forgets that any erotic scene can be cringeworthy out of context.
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Do it for Mom!
In Denmark, the birth rate has continued to fall, with women waiting longer and longer to have children. But there…
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Paul Sakuma / AP Who's Sweating the Sexbots?
While sex robots do reflect troubling gender dynamics, they hardly doom humanity to a future of exploitation and empty relationships.
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Sleeping with Other People and the Fate of the Romantic Comedy
My colleague Sophie has a (customarily excellent) review of the new movie on the site today, but I wanted to…
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Chelsea Beck / The Atlantic Coming to Terms With 'Slut'
After publishing my memoir, I learned firsthand how the simple act of being a woman who writes about sex can lead to vicious shaming from strangers.
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Allen G. Breed / AP Why Flibanserin Is Not the ‘Female Viagra’
The drug's controversial approval yesterday comes on the heels of two previous unsuccessful attempts, lingering questions about safety, and uncertainty about whether or not it really works.
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The Atlantic ‘You've Come a Long Way, Baby’: The Lag Between Advertising and Feminism
Even at the height of ‘women’s liberation,’ products aimed to female consumers were actually marketed to men.
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E! Entertainment The Real Christian Debate on Transgender Identity
Some conservatives have made mocking remarks about Caitlyn Jenner, but their attitudes obscure deep, meaningful questions about the meaning of gender.
