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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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Afghan women are sharing photos of dresses to protest the Taliban's black hijab mandate
Afghan women around the world are protesting the Taliban's new hijab requirement in schools by posting photos of themselves wearing colorful traditional dresses on social media.
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Avocados change belly fat distribution in women, controlled study finds
An avocado a day could help redistribute belly fat in women toward a healthier profile, according to a new study. Women who consumed avocado as part of a daily meal had a reduction in visceral abdominal fat, which forms around the organs deep in the belly.
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How Imposter Syndrome Affects Intellectually Brilliant Women
Why am I doing this? I’m not fit for this.” “They probably had no other choice, that’s why they picked me” “I feel like such a fraud. Others do really good work, while I’m just faking it to get through.” The study found that women had a higher rate of experiencing imposter syndrome than men.
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‘They deserve a place in history’: music teacher makes map of female composers
Interactive tool features more than 500 women who are often forgotten in the classical music world
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Unfortunately, it seems like women are more to blame for the height stigma than men are.
Studies show that men are much more open to dating someone outside of their height requirements than women are. "Twenty-three percent of men but only four percent of women said they were open to a relationship in which the woman was taller," a Huffington Post article explained.
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