Hillary Clinton Intends to Fill Half Of Her Cabinet With Women

If Hillary Clinton wins the presidency, she plans to model gender equality by giving women equal representation in the Cabinet.

If Hillary Clinton wins the presidency, she plans to model gender equality by giving women equal representation in the Cabinet.

Today, Ivanka Trump, daughter of GOP presumptive nominee and melted Claymation villain Donald Trump, made an interesting claim. “My father is a feminist,” she told London’s Sunday Times. Oh, cool.
The American Time Use Survey (or ATUS) is a yearly report conducted by the U.S. Department of Labor that examines “the average amount of time per day in 2015 that individuals worked, did household activities, and engaged in leisure and sports activities.” The results for 2015 were released this week, and—based on the…
On Tuesday morning, the Twitter account for PETA, the generally unhinged animal rights advocacy group, tweeted the above quote from its president.
For your consideration, from the last week: the Washington Post’s “A shocking number of college men surveyed admit coercing a partner into sex,” and the Wall Street Journal’s “Women are more interested in sex than you think, studies show.” Why were these headlines—and the articles that followed—addressed to men?
Do you remember that scene in Love, Actually when Emma Thompson has a controlled breakdown in her bedroom after discovering that her husband (played by the late Alan Rickman) is cheating on her? She paces back and forth in front of her marriage bed, hyperventilating, unsure of what to do with herself or her heart—much…

In a rare move during tonight’s victory speech, Donald Trump actually decided to take questions from reporters. And in response to a question that appeared to be entirely unrelated, he decided to let everyone know that he’ll “do far more for women than Hillary Clinton will ever do.”
It’s almost a non-story when Formula One head troll Bernie Ecclestone makes an embarrassing, sexist comment lately. Unfortunately, racing legend Mario Andretti made some facepalm-worthy statements in agreement this time, too. Then three-time NHRA drag racing champion Shirley Muldowney put it all in perspective.
Behind Prince’s exceptional talent and daring sensuality was a genuine love and adoration for women. While that sometimes translated to high-profile affairs with proteges from Vanity to Mayte Garcia, more often it meant that Prince was using his capacity as a genius artist to constantly elevate women as musicians,…
In what is truly some unsurprising bit of polling, a new Reuters/Ipsos poll found that half of American women have a “very unfavorable” view of Donald Trump. Though the likely Republican presidential nominee claims to “cherish” women, touting the in-depth policy, “I will be so good to women,” it appears that a sizable…
I am judging L’Amour de Loin exclusively and non-expertly from clips I am currently consuming on YouTube—including the above trailer from an incredibly striking, spare, psychotically pretty staging of the opera at the State Theater in Linz, Austria—but the first woman-composed opera to be staged at the Met since 1903…
Here’s a 2016 story that reads like it’s 1968: new women employees working on the cabin crews of British Airways airline have, after a two-year legal battle, won the right to wear trousers on the job. The Guardian reports that the company’s dress code had only applied to women employed under crappier conditions after…
On last year’s cover of Vanity Fair’s Hollywood issue—that annual Annie Leibovitz photo in which the country’s hottest actors use each other as sexy, well-dressed furniture—20 percent of those photographed were people of color, 100 percent were under 50, 60 percent were men, and 33 percent of the men were Miles Teller…
The endearingly-titled show Minnesota Nice has become the subject of internet rage after it posted a casting call for a “Caucasian Female co-host For Luxury Product Placement.”
Earlier this week, presidential candidate and malevolent Cracker Jack Donald Trump was confronted with the upsetting reality that Hillary Clinton pees, something he found too gross to discuss: “It’s too disgusting. Don’t say it, it’s disgusting.” Bernie Sanders has more upsetting revelations for the Donald.