Can You Be Pro-Choice and Grieve Your Abortion?
Kassi Underwood's memoir, May Cause Love, probes the difficulties many feminists feel in expressing grief around abortions in a way that doesn't set the pro-choice movement back.
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‘Grey’s Anatomy’ Finally Tackles Medicine’s Gender Bias
With Miranda Bailey's heart attack, sexism in medicine gets much-deserved mainstream treatment.
‘Better That They Raped Us’: How the Women of South Sudan Are Speaking Out About Mass Rape
In South Sudan's civil war, rape is wielded as a weapon. Despite dangerous stigma, some South Sudanese women are speaking out.
The Importance of Female Role Models in the Classroom
A recent study finds that female students are more likely to enroll in an upper-level economics class if they have encountered successful women role models in that field.
For Women Who Have Been Victims of ‘Stealthing,’ There Can Be Dangerous Health Consequences—and Little Option for Legal Recourse
There are no available statistics on how many men discreetly remove their condoms during sex, an act known informally as stealthing.
Most Women and African Americans in Tech Say They’ve Been Discriminated Against
Science and tech jobs are among America's highest-paying and fastest-growing, but women and minorities in the field report they face unfair barriers in the workplace.
‘Looking for Brilliant Minds’ Translates as ‘Women Need Not Apply’
New research finds the stereotype that intellectual genius is a male trait can dampen females' interest in certain jobs or fields of study.
BBC Editor Quits, Citing Gender Discrimination in Pay
Though editor Carrie Gracie was offered a raise, she felt it did nothing to address the systemic nature of the BBC's pay-gap problem.
The Women Who Should Win the Nobel Prize—but Haven’t
When the Nobel committees ignore women who do Nobel-caliber science, the awards deserve to lose their relevance.
New Evidence That Women Are Less Selfish Than Men
One study offers neural evidence that women are more sharing-oriented, while another finds new fathers find more time to relax than new mothers.