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The Las Vegas Raiders have hired the first Black female team president in the NFL
Sandra Douglass Morgan is a Las Vegas native and graduate of Eldorado High School; the University of Nevada, Reno; and the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
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Sex: Why it makes women fall in love - but just makes men want MORE!
During a woman's head during an orgasm up to 30 different parts of the brain are activated, including those responsible for emotion, joy, satisfaction and memory.
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The Sexist Pseudoscience at the Heart of Biology
FOR YEARS, STUDYING zoology made me feel like a sad misfit. Not because I loved spiders, enjoyed cutting up dead things I’d found by the side of the road, or would gladly root around in animal feces for clues as to what their owner had eaten. No, the source of my disquiet was my sex. Being female meant just one thing: I was a loser.
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New study suggests envy is an adaptation that promotes intrasexual competition among women in the form of gossip
A new study published in Evolutionary Psychological Science reported that upward appearance comparison predicted increased envy among women; this, in turn, predicted willingness to spread negative – but not positive – gossip about an attractive woman.
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Google pays out $118 million to female staff who earned less than their male colleagues to settle lawsuit
Search giant was accused of paying more than 15,000 female staff $17,000 a year less than their male counterparts for the same work.
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The Weirdly Specific Trend That Has Taken Over Women’s Fiction
Why a wave of recent titles all sound so similar.
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Why I Don’t Feel Safe as a Woman Anymore
The Johnny Depp-Amber Heard verdict sealed it.
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Highly attractive women are perceived as more aggressive by other women when wearing make-up
Whether make-up results in women appearing more aggressive or a better potential leader depends to some extent on their perceived attractiveness, according to new research published in Personality and Individual Differences. The findings suggest that make-up’s function as a signal of intersexual competitiveness is primarily restricted to attractive women.
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AI study finds that males are represented four times more than females in literature
An artificial intelligence study on female prevalence in literature finds a staggering discrepancy in female representation.
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Why Are So Many Novels About “Generations of Women”?
There really are quite a lot of them
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The key question raised by Lia Thomas’s swimming success: What is the purpose of women’s sports?
The debate over trans athletes can put the values of fairness and inclusion in tension.
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‘Long-overdue’: all-Black, female second world war battalion to receive congressional gold medal
The only all-Black, all-female second world war battalion will be awarded the congressional gold medal after Joe Biden signed a bipartisan bill on Monday to honor the women’s efforts. The 6888th central post directory battalion, also known as the “six triple eight” was the only group of African American women to serve overseas during second world war. Created in 1944, it included 824 enlisted Black women and 31 officers from the women’s army corps, the army service forces and the army air forces.
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Call My Agent!’s Camille Cottin on becoming a sex symbol in her 40s: ‘There’s a desire to see women who’ve been invisible’
She stole the show as a ‘female Don Juan’ in the French hit series – then flirted with Villanelle in Killing Eve. She talks about breaking out in middle age, and whether it’s OK for a straight actor to keep playing lesbians
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Self-promotion skills for women in business
You can’t get ahead unless you’re noticed. I asked several successful women to share the useful advice they received about promoting themselves. Their experiences may help women learn to toot their own horns.
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Women 32% more likely to die after operation by male surgeon, study reveals
Female patients found to have 15% more chance of a bad outcome than if procedure was performed by a woman
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23andme founder Anne Wojcicki married into wealth and was ignored until she made her own fortune
“There are people who wouldn’t talk to me for years and years,” says Wojcicki, who was formerly married to Google cofounder Sergey Brin.
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Human Computer: The Forgotten Women's Profession
For hundreds of years, the term “computer” was a job title for a human before machines took over the job, and in the late 19th century, computers weren’t just human, they were mostly women.
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Women are steering Saudi Arabia toward revolutionary change
Anyone hoping to evaluate the kingdom’s economic future or political stability will need to understand the unprecedented speed of its cultural revolution.
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Taliban’s nightmare: Fearless women
Every repressive regime, however mighty and powerful, has its nightmares. For the Taliban regime in Afghanistan, the worst nightmare has proven to be the country’s women who are articulate, aware of their rights, dream of building careers or women who have displayed unmatched resilience and have marched boldly on the streets to reclaim their right to freedom, despite knowing that they are fighting a regime that is regressive, patriarchal and anti-democratic in orientation.
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15 Highly Successful Female Founders Share Their Business Secrets
What does it take to become a highly successful female founder or CEO today? The research team from small business financing company OnDeck decided to find out.
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