The Persistent (Page 5)

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Working While Female

How Back to School Puts Working Moms in an Impossible Bind

The mismatch of days off between schools and workplaces is an annual puzzle. It’s moms who bear the brunt.

A woman in a white dress, sitting on a chair, twists her body to look up at the sky.

Culture

Visceral, Dark, Hopeful: The World Through Women’s Eyes

This year's Women Photograph grant winners offer an honest, hopeful view of the world as it looks through a woman's lens.

Pamela Anderson, with a flicked-out blonde bob and little makeup, wears a navy top with a jewelled brooch.

Celebrity

The Dignified Revenge of Pamela Denise Anderson

Pamela is not the sum of her scandals or the product of her movie credits. Her latest ‘rebirth’ is just Pamela, once again, being herself.

An illustration of a woman sitting on a giant coin, holding a giant coin.

Money

Why Women Dislike Talking About Money. (And What We Can Do About It.)

Ultimately, it might not be about how much you make or how you spend, it's about how money makes you feel.

A daughter embraces her mom while her mom colors in pictures at a table.

Family

Am I Really the Adult in the Room Now?

My mother was always the one in the family who took care of everyone and everything. Now, her mind is going, and none of us know quite where we stand.

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Women's Health

Gates Foundation Commits $2.5 Billion To Women’s Health

A significant influx of funding could change one of the most marginalized and overlooked areas in medicine.

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Relationships

The Day I Walked Out of The Kitchen

My choice is to leave all planning, preparation and worrying about food to my husband. That feels like a radical feminist act.

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Ideas

Who's Going to Fly Your Plane?

A new study finds that women pilots might actually outperform their male counterparts.

Oil painting of Margaret Fuller, a brunette woman in a cornflour blue gown, with a cream shawl draped over her shoulders.

History

The Life and Untimely Death of One of America's First Feminists

There’s no way of knowing what Margaret Fuller might have achieved if she hadn’t died in the summer of 1850.

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Unpacking AI

‘Because it Feels So Urgent’

We are on the edge of an AI revolution that is going to transform our society. What are we doing about it?

Essays

‘I Couldn’t Stay Away’

A reenactment of the Dominique Pelicot trial takes on a life of its own, becoming as real as the trial itself.

Sports

‘Equally Valued, Visible and Paid’

The UN human rights chief calls on countries to do more to dismantle gender-based barriers faced by women athletes.

A cartoon of a woman running with a backpack on. She is being watched by people, staring down at her.

Identities

The Labels We Carry

Sometimes how you feel on the inside vs. what people see on the outside doesn't match up at all.

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Persisting Through Politics

I Wish Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill Was the Solution to America’s Child Care Crisis. It’s Not.

Beware the 'momwashing' provisions.

A watercolor painting of Margo Selby (left) and Helen Caddick (right), the creators of "Moon Landing"