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Reuters / Toby Melville Why Don’t More People Consider Competitive Cheerleading a Sport?
The rigorous activity is dominated by female athletes—and is growing in legitimacy and popularity.
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Jordan Strauss / AP Should Acting Prizes Be Gender-Neutral?
The MTV Movie & TV Awards will no longer hand out separate trophies for best male and female performers. Will bigger ceremonies follow suit?
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Not Wanting to Be a Token in Tech
Two readers are very wary of hiring practices in Silicon Valley that strongly take gender into account. Here’s Sally: …
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Becoming ‘Everyone’s Little Sister’ to Deal With Sexism
A reader with a Ph.D. in physics has been working in the tech industry for many years, but she’s…
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Expensive / venusty888 / shutterstock / Katie Martin ... Why Female Cannibals Frighten and Fascinate
The danger and appeal of the insatiable woman in Raw, Santa Clarita Diet, and The Lure
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Thomas Lohnes / Getty In Germany, Parents Can Sue the Government for Failing to Provide Child Care
A judge has ruled that mothers and fathers can try to recover wages they lost from staying home to take care of their kids.
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Philip Gould / Corbis via Getty How Wall-Mounted Changing Tables Enabled Moms to Leave the House
Where parenting norms have gone, the availability of infant-friendly facilities has followed.
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PeopleImages / Getty Women Know When Negotiating Isn't Worth It
Telling women to “always negotiate” might be bad advice, a new paper suggests.
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Reuters Being Trans, and an Immigrant, Under the Trump Administration
Many transgender Americans have only been openly trans under an Obama administration that respected their rights. That is about to change.
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Warner Bros. Understanding the Women of Pedro Almodóvar’s Movies
The Spanish auteur has been accused of making films with misogynistic themes. But too infrequently have critics considered an important factor: the director’s sexuality.
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Shannon Stapleton / Reuters When Women Run Companies
What happens to employees under female leadership?
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An Arranged Marriage Is a Family Affair
In a humorous new documentary, an Indian American comedian gets help from his parents to find a wife.
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Yuya Shino / Reuters How Men’s Economic Struggles Can Look Like Good News for Women
When actually everyone is having a hard time
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Toru Hanai / Reuters D.C.’s Battle for Paid Family Leave
City-council members in the nation’s capital are preparing for a final vote on what could be the most expansive parental-leave law in the United States.
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Agence Photographique BSIP / Getty Evidence of the Superiority of Female Doctors
New research estimates that if all physicians were female, 32,000 fewer Americans would die every year.
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Katie Martin / The Atlantic The Sexism They Faced
One colleague’s constant refrain: “When are you going to have babies and quit?”
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Katie Martin / The Atlantic Beyond Maternity Leave
For all the focus on parental leave as a barrier to women’s professional ascent, women’s real struggle with work-parenting balance grew—alongside their children—years after their maternity leave ended.
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Katie Martin / The Atlantic How Much Ambition Can a Marriage Sustain?
Power couples are a rarity. Instead, many high-achieving women have husbands who do their own opting out.
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Katie Martin / The Atlantic Rethinking What Success Looks Like
For women who left the workforce, their ambitions didn’t disappear so much as found a new target.
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Katie Martin / The Atlantic When Women Choose Children Over a Career
“I went to a job interview after my first daughter was born and cried the whole way home.”
