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From TIME authored by Katie Reilly:
“How much did she have to drink? Why didn’t she wear a more modest outfit? Why did she and the man she later accused of raping her look “like two lovers” while walking together on campus? These are some of the questions that defense attorneys asked a Yale University student who brought a rape complaint against her classmate.
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From The Players’ Tribune authored by Kevin Love:
“On November 5th, right after halftime against the Hawks, I had a panic attack.
It came out of nowhere. I’d never had one before. I didn’t even know if they were real. But it was real — as real as a broken hand or a sprained ankle. Since that day, almost everything about the way I think about my mental health has changed.
I’ve never been comfortable sharing much about myself. I turned 29 in September and for pretty much 29 years of my life I have been protective about anything and everything in my inner life. I was comfortable talking about basketball — but that came natural. It was much harder to share personal stuff, and looking back now I know I could have really benefited from having someone to talk to over the years. But I didn’t share — not to my family, not to my best friends, not in public. Today, I’ve realized I need to change that. I want to share some of my thoughts about my panic attack and what’s happened since. If you’re suffering silently like I was, then you know how it can feel like nobody really gets it. Partly, I want to do it for me, but mostly, I want to do it because people don’t talk about mental health enough. And men and boys are probably the farthest behind.”
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From CNN authored by Francesca Street:
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From CNBC Make It authored by Zameena Mejia:
“Melinda Gates kicked off 2018 by proclaiming “it’s time for a new era for women” in a Time magazine op-ed. Today, she shared her plans to help empower women around the world.
“With a new focus on women’s economic empowerment, connecting women to markets, making sure they have access to financial services, and empowering them to help themselves, we aim to help tear down the barriers that keep half the world from leading a full life,” Gates wrote in a op-ed for Quartz published Monday.
Gates announced the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s plan to spend $170 million over the next four years to help women exercise their economic power.
“Simply put when money flows into the hands of women who have the authority to use it, everything changes,” Gates wrote.”
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From Take the Lead authored by Michele Weldon:
Particularly in the past few weeks, young women are expressing their power to influence policy, behaviors, laws and attitudes toward gun violence, as well as continue to shape positive social movements to change the futures for girls and women.
As an activist, she is reviving #NeverAgain as a movement to end violence in schools. She is part of a generation of girls and women starting and engaging in movements including #BlackLivesMatter, Girls Who Code and many more.
These efforts align with the 9 Leadership Power Tools created by Gloria Feldt, president and c0-founder of Take The Lead. Feldt identifies Power Tool # 7 as, “Take Action; Create a Movement.” She explains, “Things don’t just happen. People make them happen in a systematic way. And you can change systems.”
This is happening across the country today.”
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From TIME authored by Olivia B Waxman:
“With March marking both March Madness and Women’s History Month, it’s a fitting time to look back at how far women’s sports have come since President Richard Nixon signed Title IX into law on June 23, 1972, as part of the Education Amendments of 1972.
But, though many know Title IX best as the law that increased women’s participation in school sports, that result was in some ways a happy accident.
“Sports wasn’t really discussed or considered much at all when Congress was considering the Title IX bill or when it enacted the law,” says Margaret Dunkle, who as a researcher in the 1970s helped bring that result to fruition.
For the work she did, which led to her becoming the first Chair of the National Coalition for Women and Girls in Education, Dunkle is now one of the trailblazers honored by the National Women’s History Project for exemplifying this year’s Women’s History Month theme of “Nevertheless, She Persisted.” She became Associate Director of the Association of American Colleges’ Project on the Status and Education of Women on the strength of her contributions to a book on sex discrimination in the workplace, but she’d also been drawn to athletics as a civil rights issue. So it was in her role with the project that she helped put together a groundbreaking 1974 report on the state of women’s and men’s sports at U.S. colleges and universities.”
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From TIME presented by Ford:
“What a jagged image we use for women who achieve greatly, defining accomplishment in terms of the barrier rather than the triumph. There she is up where the air is thin, where men still outnumber women, but where the altitude is awesome. Our goal with Firsts, which we will continue to update as new barriers are broken, is for every woman and girl to find someone whose presence in the highest reaches of success says to her that it is safe to climb, come on up, the view is spectacular.”
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From Take the Lead authored by Michele Weldon:
“How will you mark International Women’s Day?
We suggest spending March 8 and all week celebrating women’s economic, political, cultural and societal contributions globally by seeing where we are, where we need to go and determining how you can take the lead to get there.
CBS reports that the 2018 observance of International Women’s Day in more than 100 countries is set to be bigger than last year, which set a record.
“As Facebook’s single biggest moment of 2017, this global celebration is all but certain to be one of the most hashtagged, most trending and most talked about events of 2018 and stands to eclipse last year’s widespread growth and accomplishments,” according to Randy Yagi at CBS Local.”
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From Lawyerist.com authored by Sam Glover:
“Lawyer and psychotherapist Elizabeth Wittenberg starts her article, “Are Your Clients Making You Crazy? How to Avoid Drama with Maddening Clients,” with this eye-opening quotation:
Statistically, over 9 percent of American adults have a diagnosable personality disorder … .
In other words, it is not your imagination; some of your clients really are mentally ill. In fact, depending on the kind of law you practice, the percentage of your potential client base with a diagnosable personality disorder is probably substantially higher than the average.”
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From Fast Company authored by Leila Hock:
“What do you really need to get ahead at work?
I get asked this all the time. The answer varies depending on the person, their goals, and my mood, but there’s one answer I’ll never give: “Work hard.” That’s not an oversight or a misstep. It’s very intentional.
Whenever I hear some public speaker or Silicon Valley personality talk about how it just takes hard work to really succeed, I can’t help but roll my eyes a little. I’m sick of hearing people talk about working hard, keeping busy, putting their head down, etc. We’ve become too preoccupied with “the grind,” and it’s actually bringing us down.
We have a bias toward hard work in our society, and it’s causing a lot of damage, not the least of which is its negative effect on productivity. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, our productivity rate is increasing at the slowest rate ever, and yet, I’m sure you’d agree, people are working more than ever.
Generally, when people say they’re “working hard,” they mean they’re putting a lot of time in. What they (generally) don’t mean is that they’ve put a lot of thought into that work, or that they know what they’re working on is contributing to something important.”
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