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From Quartz authored by Lila MacLellan: “At the end of May, TIAA, the financial services and investing giant, rolled out new gender-identity awareness guidelines for its client-facing consultants. The guidance included: “Never assume someone’s gender identity” and “Be aware that a person’s pronouns can change over time. They may also change based on context.” More …
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From The Washington Post authored by Meagan Flynn: “Early one March morning inside an Illinois prison, a tactical unit armed with batons and shields stormed two women’s housing units to round up about 200 handcuffed inmates and march them to a gymnasium. Once in the gym, they stood facing the wall for more than an …
From The Wall Street Journal authored by Sue Shellenbarger: “Work is seeping into weekends and other personal time, and women are logging more hours on the job. Those trends are turning many couples’ after-work hours into a minefield. People who put in long days on stressful jobs tend to carry the strain over into their lives at …
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From Glamour authored by Macaela Mackenzie: “Women make up 40% of all participants in sports—yet somehow receive only 4% of sports media coverage. It has a damning ripple effect: Without airtime, female athletes lose out on sponsors, fans, and coin. This lack of coverage also tees up a shortage of role models for girls in sports—and …
From The Huffington Post authored by Gaby Hinsliff: “When Rina Mae Acosta’s daughter was born last winter, she knew she could count on the help of her fairy godmother. Or to be more precise, her kraamverzorgster, the maternity nurse who visits every new mother in the Netherlands daily for the first eight days after giving …
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From Upworthy authored by Tod Perry: “Recently, Upworthy shared a tweet thread by author A.R. Moxon who created a brilliant metaphor to help men understand the constant anxiety that potential sexual abuse causes women. He did so by equating sexual assault to something that men have a deep-seeded fear of: being kicked in the testicles. A.R. …
From The Guardian authored by Brigid Schulte: “A few months ago, as I struggled to carve out time in my crowded days for writing, a colleague suggested I read a book about the daily rituals of great artists. But instead of offering me the inspiration I’d hoped for, what struck me most about these creative …
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From Money authored by Olivia Raimonde: “When Carrie Jernigan was doing some last-minute, pre-vacation shopping with her kids at a Payless ShoeSource near their home in Alma, Arkansa, she had no idea she would soon be taking home upwards of 1,500 pairs of shoes. “What have I done?” the 37-year-old lawyer and mother of three …
From The Wall Street Journal authored by Christopher Mims: “At first, Marek Nowak, a 32-year-old engineer at enterprise cloud software company CircleCI, was skeptical of using emojis when communicating with colleagues. Now, whenever he posts the minutes of his team meetings in Slack, he precedes them with a custom emoji of a teddy bear giving a …
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From The Huffington Post authored by Emily Peck: “She’s paid $185,000 so far to have judges hear her sexual harassment and discrimination complaint against EY, a firm that pulls in billions of dollars of revenue annually, according to a complaint Ward filed last week in federal court. “How many victims will even be able to …
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