From AP News authored by Collin Binkley: “This graduation season, the podium is all hers. For the first time in at least two decades, the majority of the nation’s top colleges are featuring women as their spring commencement speakers, a shift that industry experts credit to the wave of female empowerment that has fueled the […]
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Four Women Accuse New York’s Attorney General of Physical Abuse
From The New Yorker authored by Jane Myer and Ronan Farrow: Update: Three hours after the publication of this story, Schneiderman resigned from his position. “While these allegations are unrelated to my professional conduct or the operations of the office, they will effectively prevent me from leading the office’s work at this critical time,” he […]
Crashing the boys’ club: Women candidates find winning elections is only half the battle
From Yahoo authored by Lisa Belkin: “For Tara Gaston, it was being repeatedly told “that’s not the way things have been done” on the Saratoga County, N.Y., board of supervisors, to which she had just been elected. For Haya Ayala, it was watching her bill calling for pay parity get “killed before it could get […]
Celebrated ‘Fearless Girl’ statue moving next to Stock Exchange, ending year-long standoff with ‘Charging Bull’
I mean, REALLY, who could have imagined one small-statured, ponytailed, dress-wearing, otherwise-unmoved girl statue would bring so much controversy? Well, a lot of us, right? I mean, we know – don’t we – how thoroughly offensive it is to some folks that a woman (let alone an actual GIRL) unapologetically stand her ground. She must compromise, […]
No 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature, Panel Says Amid Sexual Abuse Scandal
As yet another institution sees the impact of a sexual harassment scandal, I find myself both highly-irritated and hopeful. I’m tired. Every time I hear of another instance – another institution – of abuse, it’s something new to mourn, something additional to process, more [mostly] women for which to feel protective. Choosing to pay attention […]
Four Women Accuse New York’s Attorney General of Physical Abuse
From The New Yorker authored by Jane Mayer and Ronan Farrow : “Update: Three hours after the publication of this story, Schneiderman resigned from his position. “While these allegations are unrelated to my professional conduct or the operations of the office, they will effectively prevent me from leading the office’s work at this critical time,” […]
At Nike, Revolt Led by Women Leads to Exodus of Male Executives Image
From The New York Times authored by Julie Creswell, Kevin Draper and Rachel Abrams: “For too many women, life inside Nike had turned toxic. There were the staff outings that started at restaurants and ended at strip clubs. A supervisor who bragged about the condoms he carried in his backpack. A boss who tried to […]
The Golden State Killer Is Tracked Through a Thicket of DNA, and Experts Shudder
From The New York Times authored by Gina Kolata and Heather Murphy: “Genetic testing services have become enormously popular with people looking for long-lost relatives or clues to hereditary diseases. Most never imagined that one day intimate pieces of their DNA could be mined to assist police detectives in criminal cases. Even as scientific experts […]
Tammie Jo Shults, Who Safely Landed the Deadly Southwest Flight, Has Been Breaking Glass Ceilings for Years
From TIME authored by Jennifer Calfas: “When an engine exploded on Southwest flight 1380 Wednesday, pilot Tammie Jo Shults calmly alerted air traffic control and prepared for an emergency landing in Philadelphia. “We are single engine,” Shults, a former U.S. Navy pilot, said, according to a recordingof the correspondence. “Part of it’s missing,” she added. “They […]
How We Chose the 2018 TIME 100 List of the World’s Most Influential People
From TIME authored by Edward Felsenthal: “One of the most stirring moments in this year’s billion-dollar blockbuster Black Panther, whose director, Ryan Coogler, and lead actor, Chadwick Boseman, are both on this year’s TIME 100, comes early in the film. A terrorist attack has upended the kingdom of Wakanda. As Boseman’s T’Challa returns to take the throne, his mother, played […]
