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Gentle Parenting is Gentle on Everyone But the Mothers Doing It

While gentle parenting places a high value on children’s feelings, it doesn’t have the same concerns about parents.

Commuters walk through the park on a rainy day. They are holding umbrellas.

Working While Female

Flexible Work Is a Great Idea. If Only Everyone Would Use It.

Unless workplace culture changes too, flexible working can end up widening inequalities instead of closing them.

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Forgotten Feminists

Why RBG’s Complicated Legacy Doesn’t Bother Me

Nothing will take away from the immense wins Ruth Bader Ginsburg secured for those who couldn’t stage their own fights. But she was complicated, and so is her legacy.

Global Equality for Women and Girls is Grim. What Are We Doing About It?

In 2015, the U.N. established sweeping gender goals. Ten years on, they’re not even close to being met.

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Women You Should Know

If She Were Here Today, She’d Be President

Written out of the history of suffrage, Jeannette Rankin was a remarkable feminist and congresswoman. The author Lorissa Rinehart finally tells her story.

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Friendship

Few Things Test Friendships Like Success

It’s reasonable to share in the pain of a friend in need. But sharing in the joy of a friend’s success? That’s harder.

Angela Raynor steps out of a black car wearing a cream jacket and bright green trousers. She is wearing sunglasses.

Women in Politics

The Hounding of Britain's Deputy Prime Minister was Sexist and Classist

Angela Rayner, Britain’s outspoken deputy prime minister, resigned last week after a media campaign against her. A reminder that some will pay the price while others get off scot-free. It depends on who you are.

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Gender Pay Gap

The Pay Gap Has Always Been Bad. Now It's Getting Worse.

For the first time in over half a century, the gender pay gap in the U.S. has widened over two consecutive years.

A women with a covered face and a baby on her knee is surrounded by rubble and other survivors.

In the Aftermath of a Devastating Earthquake, Afghan Women Struggle to Get Help…Because They’re Women

Taliban restrictions have made women medics a rarity, putting women’s health, care and survival at serious risk.

Marian Croak, wearing a pink jacket, waves one hand in the air and holds a microphone in the other.

Worklife

Five Tech Pioneers Who Should Be As Famous as Zuckerberg and Bezos

These five women should be as famous—and well off—as Silicon Valley's finest.

The new editor of Vogue stands against a backdrop of green doors, her arms crossed in front of her. She wears a yellow and pink button-down and jeans.

Fashion

What to Make of Vogue's New Editor, Chloe Malle

Chloe Malle’s appointment comes at a moment when Vogue faces an identity crisis.

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Forgotten Feminists

The Tech Mogul “Steve” Who Looked Out for Women

Her software company would change everything; perhaps most notably how—and where—women could work.

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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.

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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.

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.

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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.

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