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From TIME authored by Amar Vahdat and Mehdi Fattahi:
“That pressure has grown both with FIFA and Iran’s soccer-loving public since September, when an Iranian woman detained for dressing as a man to sneak into a soccer stadium to watch a match died after setting herself on fire upon learning she learned she could spend six months in prison.”
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From A Mighty Girl authored by A Mighty Girl Staff:
“The iconic Yellowstone National Park has just appointed its first female chief ranger in its 147-year history! When she takes on her new role in December, Sarah Davis will be the 18th chief ranger of the vast 2.2 million acre park. ‘Sarah is an outstanding leader with a track record of high performance, strategic thinking, and collaboration,’ Superintendent Cam Sholly said in a statement announcing Davis’ appointment. ‘We’re lucky to have her join the Yellowstone team.’”
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From Bloomberg authored by Jeff Green:
“Most companies already offer sexual harassment training of some sort. But it often exists to protect employers from lawsuits and focuses on teaching people to spot, rather than eliminate, bad behavior. ‘Much of the training done over the last 30 years has not worked as a prevention tool,’ a 2015 Equal Employment Opportunity Commission task force found.”
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From The Washington Post authored by Meredith C. Carroll:
“’They were totally unapologetic. It was such an intentional move, and there was absolutely no remorse. I was so shocked,’ she said. ‘It’s a world that needs a little more empathy for people. When you are breast-feeding your child, you’re vulnerable, and they took advantage of me. They kicked me while I was down.’ However, it would be a mistake to characterize Wojcicki as anything resembling a victim, in this instance or any other. ‘In some ways, I feel fortunate that it happened to me and not someone else because I have a platform to keep driving positive change,’ she said. ‘If this gives support to other women, then I’m happy to be speaking out.’”
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From Fast Company authored by Pavithra Mohan:
“The ad closes with the line ‘If we all had them, maybe we’d be more comfortable with them,’ then cuts to an image of Thinx’s product. ‘We really fed into the duality of comfort—the idea of society being more comfortable…’”
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From A Mighty Girl authored by A Mighty Girl Staff:
“Dr. Esther Duflo has just become the second woman in history and the youngest person ever to win a Nobel Prize in Economics! The 46-year-old MIT professor shares the prize with her husband, Dr. Abhijit Banerjee, and colleague Dr. Michael Kremer; together they have helped millions of people around the world with their research to develop practical interventions to alleviating global poverty. “In just two decades, their new experiment-based approach has transformed development economics, which is now a flourishing field,” the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said in today’s prize announcement. After learning of her Nobel win, Duflo said she was “humbled” and, in light of how underrepresented women are in the field of economics, she hopes that it will “inspire many, many other women to continue working and many other men to give them the respect that they deserve like every single human being.”
Born and raised in Paris, France, Duflo planned to study history as an undergraduate but several research positions showed her that “economics had potential as a lever of action in the world.” The ability to do “things that mattered” appealed to her and, she says, “I came to economics the day I realized there was something called development economics. I didn’t want to do macro, and I didn’t want to do finance.” Duflo went on to earn a master’s degree in economics from the Paris School of Economics and a PhD in economics at MIT, where she is currently a Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics.”
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From The New York Times authored by Ruth Whippman:
“If parents were giving their children virtue names today, as the Puritans used to do, nobody would choose Charity or Grace or Patience. Instead, half of all baby girls born in America would be named Empowerment or Assertiveness.
For women in this cultural moment, assertiveness is perhaps the ultimate in aspirational personal qualities. At the nexus of feminism and self-help lies the promise that if we can only learn to state our needs more forcefully — to “lean in” and stop apologizing and demand a raise and power pose in the bathroom before meetings and generally act like a ladyboss (though not a regular boss of course; that would be unladylike) — everything from the pay gap to mansplaining to the glass ceiling would all but disappear. Women! Be more like men. Men, as you were.
There are several problems with this fist-pumping restyling of feminism, most obviously that it slides all too easily into victim blaming. The caricature of the shrinking violet, too fearful to ask for a raise, is a handy straw-woman for corporations that would rather blame their female employees for a lack of assertiveness than pay them fairly.”
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From Runner’s World authored by Christine Yu:
“On the last Saturday of June 2019, Bryanna Gondeiro-Petrie left her in-laws’ house in eastern Washington state around 5:30 a.m. and headed down a lightly trafficked road. She needed to get out earlier than normal to squeeze in a quick shakeout run before traveling to Montana, where she would run the Missoula Marathon the next day.
As she ran against traffic, she noticed a black Toyota speeding toward her. Abruptly, the car slowed down. Then the driver rolled down the passenger-side window. Gondeiro-Petrie vividly recalls his “evil grin, as if he hit the jackpot in finding me,” she says.
The road behind Gondeiro-Petrie was empty—no houses, no cars, no side roads, and nowhere to go. A quarter mile ahead, she saw an older gentleman watering his trees, roughly 100 meters down a long driveway. She thought, “I need to get to that driveway.”
Gondeiro-Petrie sprinted. As she passed the car, the driver opened the passenger side door and yelled something unintelligible and laughed. He then hit the gas, flipped a U-turn, and intentionally drove down the wrong side of the road, coming up fast behind Gondeiro-Petrie. As the car pulled beside her, she reached the driveway and bolted down its length, shaking as she ran. The driver parked on the side of the road and watched her. When she reached the man watering the trees, he finally sped off.
That incident was the latest in a string of increasingly disturbing interactions. But Gondeiro-Petrie hadn’t always felt unsafe while running. “I would hear stories all the time, but I had this attitude that it would never happen to me,” she says. Over the past few years, her attitude has changed. Gondeiro-Petrie describes another run where she had to weave through streets to shake a car that was following her, and she says she knows countless women who have been attacked or forced to jump fences to get away from a threatening man.”
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From The Huffington Post authored by Ron Dicker:
“Simone Biles is owning her greatness.
The Olympic gymnast, who just won five gold medals at the world championships to bring her total to a record 25 medals, nailed her attempt to describe her dominance in an interview published Monday.
“It’s not out of cockiness,” she told USA Today. “I’ve won five world titles and if I say, ‘I’m the best gymnast there is,’ (the reaction is) ‘Oh, she’s cocky. Look at her now.’ No, the facts are literally on the paper.”
Word.
Biles, 22, wants other female athletes to recognize their talents as well.”
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From Glamour authored by Jennifer Siebel Newsom:
“On the morning of January 7, 2019, my husband was about to become the 40th governor of California, I was going to become the first “first partner” of California, and our four young children were going to take the stage and be thrust into the spotlight with a new level of national attention.
The media hailed Gavin as “Governor Dad,” and our son Dutch became an internet sensation. I, on the other hand, was asked by too many people to count—in that half-joking but in fact quite serious tone—how could I have possibly let him get up on that stage, and also, why did he still use a pacifier?!
I tried to pretend it didn’t bother me, but the truth is it did. It was a reminder that despite our partnership and despite the support I feel in our relationship, I will always bear the responsibility of our children in a way Gavin never will.”
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