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Film and TV
I Was Genuinely Moved by the Oscars This Year. Here’s Why.
Was it perfect? No. Occasionally self-congratulatory? Of course. But there were some genuinely joyous and important moments during this year’s Academy Awards
Careers
Women Dominate Top 10 in Ranking of Most-Cited U.S. Legal Scholars
A study from George Mason University finds that seven of the ten most-cited law professors last year were women.
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Eight Forgotten Feminists That Deserve to Be Celebrated All Year
From a brick-smuggling disabled suffragette to a teenager who helped end segregation, these inspiring feminists deserve to be remembered.
Activism
'Wine Moms' is Just the Latest Way The Right Has Trivialized Women-Led Activism
Women-centered forms of resistance have been reduced to laughable stereotypes by their detractors for centuries. The purpose? To put women back in their boxes.
Careers
These Laws Were Intended to Help Correct The Pay Gap, But They’re Backfiring
A new study shows that broad pay ranges in job postings are linked to fewer female applicants.
World
'When Wars Happen, Human Rights Are the First Casualties': Will the War Undo Years of Progress by Iranian Women?
What does the bombing of Iran mean for Iranian women? The British-Iranian peace advocate Sanam Naraghi Anderlini asks if it could destroy years of work to improve their lives.
Equality
More And More People Believe Women’s Equality Has Gone “Far Enough”
Gen Z men are most likely to believe “a wife should obey her husband”, a new survey shows—as the UN warns of global “backsliding”.
Equality
Who Invented Women’s History Month? I’m Glad You Asked.
Before they became marketing opportunities, International Women’s Day and Women’s History Month were milestones in a much longer and larger struggle.
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Here’s Your Soundtrack To The Fall of The Patriarchy
From the Indigo Girls to Lizzo, these 15 songs make us feel powerful.
Equality
Women Leaders Are Still in The Minority
From peace talks to boardrooms, women still hold vanishingly few positions in business, politics and economics, a new study has found.
Health
When Mirrors Are Minefields
My old self left the building when I received a diagnosis of Stage I breast cancer. And while it’s true I survived, I can’t bring myself to quite love the body that walked back in.
Violence Against Women and Girls
It’s Five Years Since the Murder of Sarah Everard. Has Anything Changed?
Recommendations to improve policing in the wake of Everard’s murder have yet to be implemented—meanwhile, for women, the world feels like a darker place.
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12 Under-the-Radar Obsessions We Wish More People Knew About
These wide-ranging recommendations from The Persistent contributors may not be mainstream–yet–but they definitely deserve to be.
Sport
After the Olympics, a Letter to My Teenage Hockey-Playing Son
Better inclusion means a better party for all of us, just ask Flavor Flav.
Equality
Slippery, Snowy Sidewalks Are Sexist: Let Me Explain Why
Caroline Criado Perez’s book "Invisible Women" explains why the women of New York City are having a harder week than the men.