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How a Notorious Abortionist Built a Drug Empire
Desperate 19th-century women, mistreated by the American medical establishment, risked black-market remedies and the wrath of Anthony Comstock’s moralizing thugs.
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How Much Do NFL Cheerleaders Make? Inside Their Long Fight For Fair Pay
For an NFL cheerleader, salary is a tricky issue. NFL cheerleaders make as little as $12 an hour for games. And increasingly, people are asking: why?
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Uncovering Yerkes Observatory’s Forgotten Female Astronomers
It all started with a photo of Einstein.
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The Secret History of the Vulva
Yonic images of the vulva, humanity’s first and most sacred symbol, have been erased by phallic images, men and the patriarchy.
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One of The Biggest Hunter-Gatherers Myths Is Finally Getting Debunked
The enduring idea that men evolved to hunt and women evolved to gather is a relatively baseless assumption that is facing greater academic resistance than ever before.
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Runestone Revelation Hints The Most Famous Viking Was a Woman
Harald Bluetooth is the most famous of Viking leaders, celebrated for unifying the people of Denmark during his reign from 958 to around 985 CE.
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Rare 1885 Photo Captures the First Licensed Women Doctors of India, Japan, and Syria
Their individual stories are as fascinating as their shared ones.
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A Ghostwriter’s Guide for Invisible Women
Do you feel overlooked or overtalked at the office? Don’t get mad, get tactical. Here’s how.
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Excluding trans women in women’s chess makes you a pawn of the patriarchy
Wait a bit, chess has separate competitions for men and women? Why? – The world’s top chess federation is banning trans women from competing until a review is made
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An infamous Spanish kiss overshadowed meritorious women doing their job — can you believe it?
The women of the World Cup displayed nothing but merit. Extraordinary feats of skill. Flawless sportsmanship. Good behaviour on and off the pitch. They generated millions of new eyeballs for the beautiful game. And yet, they were overshadowed again and again by second-rate blokes, writes Annabel Crabb.
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'I know my story. I know my truth': The woman behind Stockholm Syndrome says it's all a lie
A 23-year-old bank teller caught up in a siege inspired the psychological term Stockholm syndrome. But 50 years later, experts say Kristin's story is totally misunderstood.
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Did the COVID vax really alter people's periods?
COVID vaccines are not likely to blame for any major changes to the menstrual cycle, a new study shows.
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Stack Overflow Didn’t Ask How Bad Its Gender Problem Is This Year
The coding hub’s 2022 survey found that 92 percent of its users were men. This time around it simply dropped the question.
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Transgender women barred from UCI female events
The UCI has ruled transgender women will be unable to participate in female international cycling events.
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Wimbledon are relaxing their all-white dress code to ease the stress of women's periods
Wearing all-white underwear was anxiety-provoking for women on their period. A rule change for 2023 has been welcomed in the locker room
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Anna Funder rescues George Orwell's wife Eileen from being 'cancelled by the patriarchy' – and reminds us he's a sexual predator
Anna Funder’s new book, Wifedom, is a meditation on the insidious nature of patriarchy. Funder draws parallels between our #metoo era and the time of George Orwell and his wife Eileen.
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Think women have never had it so good? You should take a look at medieval days
History shows that progress in gender equality is neither steady nor inevitable
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Women Hunt in Most Foraging Societies, Using Their Own Tools And Strategies
Hunter-gatherer roles in human society are not nearly as gendered as anthropologists and archaeologists have traditionally believed, with narratives of 'man the hunter' and 'woman the gatherer' crumbling in the face of new evidence.
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12 Badass Sci-Fi and Fantasy Female Heroes Written by Women
These women from popular science fiction and fantasy novels can face down dark lords, aliens, and all sorts of evil to protect the ones they love.
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