Finally, a persuasive argument for gender equality: Researchers have found that a country’s level of equality is linked to better sleep—for everyone, men included. Let’s alert the patriarchs and cross our fingers, I guess!
Public space is generally designed with white men in mind—not surprising, considering how three out of five new architects are men and four out of five are white. (The sex and race/ethnicity breakdowns for urban planners are roughly the same, too.) This explains why there are so many modern architectural features that…
There’s gross, and then there’s this—a guitar pedal effect called the “Pussy Melter” being available for sale in 2018.
During a campaign rally in Montana on Thursday night, Donald Trump returned to some of his most abiding talking points: sexual assault and Elizabeth Warren.
LADIES, imagine this: you sign on to Spotify and you’re not quite sure what you want to listen to, so you head over to the “Browse” section and click on “New Music Friday,” to hear what the latest releases are. Maybe you do this every week! And while you might think you’re getting a well-curated, diverse selection of…
Evangeline Lilly alleges that a male stunt coordinator deliberately allowed her to get injured on the set of her former series Lost.
It turns out that school dress code policies—which prohibit harmless black cultural signifiers and draw attention and shame to individual body parts—make school disproportionately difficult for black girls. Imagine that!
Molly Ringwald wrote a fascinating essay for The New Yorker in which she revisits the old movies she worked on with late director/writer John Hughes. As a teenager, she was long considered his muse, but the two eventually grew to have a strained relationship.
Hillary Clinton spoke at an event at Rutgers University in New Jersey on Thursday night, addressing the reaction—hers and the public’s—to her loss in the 2016 election. And when she was asked how she’d respond to critics who told her to “get off the public stage and shut up,” per the moderator’s wording, she seemed…
On Wednesday, Inside Higher Ed reported the findings of research appearing in the April issue of The American Sociological Review, according to which women who have recently graduated college may have a better chance of landing a job with moderate grades than with high ones.
Madison Square Garden has been the home of the New York Liberty women’s basketball team since the team was founded in 1997. But for the upcoming season, the team will be downgraded to the Westchester Community Center, a dinky, 5,000 seat arena in White Plains, New York. The New York Liberty often had 10,000 attendees…
Matt Damon and Ben Affleck have announced that they’re adopting inclusion riders under their production company Pearl Street Films.
The media landscape is still very pale and very male, according to the Women’s Media Center. The nonprofit released a report called “The Status of Women of Color in the U.S. News Media 2018,” and it’s full of grim details, highlighting slim gains for women of color in largely white online-only media outlets, a…
A Belgian man has been convicted under a new law prohibiting “sexism in the public space,” after he allegedly told a police officer trying to arrest him for jaywalking, “Shut your mouth, I don’t talk to women, being a police officer is not a job for women.”
The Oscars are trying to be woke AF this year, and it almost feels sincere.
Over the past few months, Vice has been subject of a series of damning claims, with current and former women employees saying the company’s workplace culture has frequently been toxic for them, and accusing specific executives—including president Andrew Creighton, chief digital officer Mike Germano, and Jason Mojica,…
“Lady Doritos,” an idea so behind its time it was almost default-visionary as a meme for the Internet to yell at, was never going to happen, PepsiCo now claims.
A new report by liberal thinktank Center for American Progress analyzing why black women are at the forefront of America’s maternal mortality crisis suggests that lifelong stress from racism and sexism may be to blame.
Dany Cotton is the first female commissioner of the London Fire Brigade, which should be enough to earn her some freaking respect. Yet, just mentioning that changing “fireman” to “firefighter” would perhaps encourage more women to join the force has led to nothing but abuse. Surprise.
