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Healthcare

More Women Are Entering Medicine — And It's Good for Everyone

Improved social support, more role models, and reduced bias in medical schools have fueled the change. When it comes to patient outcomes, it makes a difference.

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Q&As

In a Deeply Divided World, Can Anything Unite Us? Perhaps a Comma Or Two.

Ellen Jovin is a grammarian whose conversations about language can help us connect in a world that feels broken.

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DEI

DEI Is Something We All Rely On—Whether We Admit It or Not.

When companies are more inclusive, everyone profits. So when DEI gets shut down, it’s up to everyone to step up.

Power

As Always With Davos, A Question of Who Gets to Be in the Room

This year, over 50 heads of state are in attendance, as well as about 1,600 business leaders.

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Mental Health

A Handful of Reasons to Be Hopeful. (Yes, We Found Some!)

Wars, wildfires and felonious world leaders are dominating the news cycle. But also: Diseases are being treated, solar power is booming and some animals are back from the brink of extinction.

Persisting Through Politics

Deciding Which Way to Look

Two men will be honored on Monday. They couldn't be more different.

Los Angeles Fires

Yes, Los Angeles Is Burning. No, DEI Is Not to Blame.

Within a day of the California wildfires igniting, right-wing influencers and conservative media outlets had decided what was to blame for the deadly blazes: DEI. That’s utterly ridiculous.

History Lessons

Why Can’t We Just Pass the ERA? It’s Complicated.

The Equal Rights Amendment is a simple 24-word piece of legislation. But it’s also a historic movement, more than a century in the making, that began with women’s suffrage and continues to this day.

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Violence against women and girls

Bright Light. Big Smile. Her Name Was Debrina Kawam.

The story of the woman set alight on the New York subway is a reminder that everyone, even when they’re anonymous, is a somebody.

Books

Our Year In Books: Escape? Engage? Do Both?

The Persistent's editors round up their favorite reads of the year.

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Legislation

How Can Equality Between Genders Still Be Up For Debate?

The Equal Rights Amendment is one of the most embattled pieces of legislation in the U.S. Supporters say it's just a question of publishing the damn thing.