From Business Insider authored by Julie Bort: “The recent killing of the 21-year-old University of South Carolina college student Samantha Josephson, who mistakenly got into a car she believed to be her Uber ride, has made national news — and rightly so. It’s a terrifying outcome to a common mistake, as anyone who has ever […]
Category Archives: GA-Curated
Knock Knock. Who’s There? It’s Men.
From The Cut authored by Opheli Garcia Lawler: “Ladies, it’s time to dull it down at the office — our humor is apparently holding us back from advancing in our careers. No more clever jokes at the watercooler, no more funny one-liners to break the ice at meetings, no more witty remarks to ease any tension in […]
Is your pregnancy app sharing your intimate data with your boss?
From The Washington Post authored by Drew Harwell: “Like millions of women, Diana Diller was a devoted user of the pregnancy-tracking app Ovia, logging in every night to record new details on a screen asking about her bodily functions, sex drive, medications and mood. When she gave birth last spring, she used the app to […]
Wikipedia Isn’t Officially a Social Network. But the Harassment Can Get Ugly.
From The New York Times authored by Julia Jacobs: “…Studies on Wikipedia’s contributor base from several years ago estimated that fewer than 20 percent of editors were women. This research backed up an existing awareness in the Wikipedia community that female editors were seriously underrepresented, galvanizing activists who set out to recruit more women to […]
‘Balancing the Scales’: Have Women Lawyers’ Expectations Changed in the Past 50 Years?
From Attorney at Work authored by Kristin Tyler: “I’m in my 30s and I’m a single, childless associate who has no idea if I will be on partnership track. I have considered dropping out of the law entirely as I’m not sure if I can physically do this anymore. How can I communicate my needs […]
Lady Hale: at least half of UK judiciary should be female
From The Guardian authored by Diane Taylor: “At least half of the judiciary should be women, Britain’s most senior judge has said. Speaking at an event in the supreme court to mark the centenary of women’s entry into the legal profession, Brenda Hale, president of the supreme court and the first woman to take on that […]
For the first time, a state’s National Guard command staff is made up of all women
From The Washington Post authored by Samantha Schmidt: “It wasn’t until the Cold War, in the mid-1950s, that women were allowed to join the National Guard — as medical officers. It would take four more decades for a woman to rise to the level of a state adjutant general, the top commander of a state’s […]
Girls were forced to wear skirts at school to ‘preserve chivalry.’ So they sued — and won.
From The Washington Post authored by Kayla Epstein: “Every so often, Charter Day School in North Carolina would hold fire or tornado drills in which students had to kneel and protect their heads from flying debris or crawl on the ground to avoid imaginary smoke. But girls had a much more immediate threat to fear: […]
Old Rape Kits Finally Got Tested. 64 Attackers Were Convicted.
From The New York Times authored by Ali Watkins: “By February 2017, Maisha Sudbeck had made peace with the idea she would never get justice. It had been five years since she was raped in Tucson by a man she had met online. The police had brushed the case off as a he-said-she-said standoff. For […]
Breast Implants Are Linked to Cancer—and Women Are Demanding the FDA Do More
From Glamour authored by Macaela Mackenzie: “Getting breast implants is a highly personal choice. Whether you find think they are genuinely empowering or find more power in being au naturel, women should be informed of the risks—especially since breast implants are linked to cancer. Now women are demanding the U.S. Food and Drug Administration step up. Earlier this […]
