Violence Against Women and Girls
The Burden of Sixty Years of Silence
What kind of world makes women’s truth telling take so long?
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Careers
Our Definition of a ‘Top University’ Might Be Completely Wrong
The metrics we use to define academic excellence have never really accounted for, well, women.
Fashion and Beauty
The Tangled History of Women and Body Hair
A razor company’s quest to increase profits launched a 100-year beauty standard. Is it time, finally, to push back?
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How We Celebrate Earth Day All Year Round
Being kind to the environment doesn’t have to take enormous effort. Case in point: Our contributors’ suggestions for painless and even pleasurable ways to save the earth.
Violence Against Women and Girls
The Silence Gap: Violence Against Women Remains Critically Undercovered in Global Media
A new report shows that media coverage of violence against women has fallen to a decade low, despite a rise in reported cases.
Politics
It’s Not Just What Brought Down the Disgraced Ex-Congressman Eric Swalwell, It’s Who
When online influencers Arielle Fodor and Cheyenne Hunt started getting messages from women who said they’d been harassed by the former congressman, Eric Swalwell, they listened. It made all the difference.
Forgotten Feminists
Peg Bracken — The Cookbook Author Who Aimed to Keep Women Out of the Kitchen
Funny, subversive and sympathetic to the plight of the housewife, Peg Bracken helped women put dinner on the table so they could get back to what they really wanted to be doing.
8 Women-Owned Businesses Adding Beauty and Creativity to the World
You can feel good, not guilty, about where your money is going at every one of these independently-owned enterprises.
The Interview
‘Racism is Still a Public Health Crisis’
Planned Parenthood CEO Alexis McGill Johnson on the Black maternal mortality crisis and what it would take to change things.
Film and TV
‘Pilates Girl’ is a Fantasy That Requires the Salary of a CEO and the Schedule of a Tradwife
A recent episode of the dating show ‘Love is Blind’ showed a man complaining that his new partner ‘doesn’t do pilates every day.’ That’s a problem.
Health
Menopause Can Make You Better at Your Job. Now There’s a Thought.
Support for menopause at work isn’t just a nice thing to do. It’s an economic imperative.
The Interview
People Were Calling Me an Economist. And I Was Like, ‘Am I?’
In her book “The Double Tax,” the economist Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman explains why Black women pay more for their hair products and their homes, get paid less at work, and are underestimated at every turn.
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7 Books That Will Spark Lively Book Club Discussions
Some books are so good you just need to talk about them. These picks from Persistent contributors, some older and some new, will give you a lot to chew on.
Health
Are You a Working Woman In Midlife? This One's For You.
A new wave of menopause-related research is revealing just how much menopause can affect women's working lives. And it's not all bad.
Careers
Who Benefits From Working From Home? It Depends
New research shows men and women experienced working from home very differently before — and after — the pandemic.
Careers
The Motherhood Penalty Hits Women’s Academic Careers Hard, According to a New Study
Women are 29% less likely to remain at universities eight years after having a first child, with lasting impacts on pay, tenure and research output, a large Danish study has found.