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Why do so few men read books by women?
No matter if it is Austen or Atwood, the Brontës or Booker winners, data shows men are reluctant to read women – and this has real world implications
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Norway women's beach handball team fined for wearing shorts instead of bikini bottoms
The European Handball Federation fined Norway’s women’s team for wearing shorts rather than bikini bottoms during a match. Each player was fined 150 Euros for wearing “improper clothing…
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Latin America’s Deadliest Place to Be a Woman
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Top 400m sprinters ruled ineligible due to testosterone rule, officials say
Two of the world’s three fastest women’s 400m sprinters this year were ruled ineligible to run the event at the Olympics due to a rule capping testosterone levels in women’s events from the 400m through the mile, according to their National Olympic Committee.
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Study suggests that women wearing heavier makeup are perceived as having less mental capacity and less moral status
Although many women feel a societal pressure to wear makeup, a new study suggests that women who wear makeup are not always positively evaluated.
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Diversity among board directors and officers
Despite decades of gains in the workplace, women continued to be underrepresented in leadership positions within Canada in 2016, especially Indigenous and visible minority women. This infographic examines the diversity among board directors and officers.
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Why we should take a women-centred approach to diagnosing and treating iron deficiency
Researchers have explored many factors that affect iron levels, including diet and exercise, but we don't yet fully understand the role women's reproductive hormones play in regulating iron uptake.
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The Women of NPR, When NPR Was a Start-Up
Lisa Napoli’s “Susan, Linda, Nina & Cokie” follows four reporters who helped make the scrappy nonprofit into an American institution.
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The 51% - A rocky road to equality: Sudanese women push for change after revolution
Two years on after playing a key role in the Sudanese revolution, women in the country are still struggling to change attitudes in the conservative-Muslim society. Also with the African Union having…
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How women invented book clubs, revolutionizing reading and their own lives
More than 150 years before Oprah and Reese Witherspoon, women began reading together in groups, seeking wisdom from the books and from one another.
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Here's why women across India are sharing images of themselves in ripped jeans
Uttarakhand’s CM Tirath Singh Rawat said that women are setting a “bad example” for society and leading to substance abuse by wearing ripped jeans.
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Women were successful big-game hunters, challenging beliefs about ancient gender roles
Anthropologists believed that before the implementation of agriculture, men hunted and women gathered, but new evidence suggests that this might not have been the case.
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Masher Menace: When American Women First Confronted Their Sexual Harassers
“The masher’s chief peculiarity is a profound faith in his dominion over the other sex.”Today—almost 150 years later—we’re realizing that the ...
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The mystery of why there are more women vegans
When women hold two incompatible beliefs, they’re more likely to change their behaviour to reconcile them. Men, by comparison, tend to dig themselves in.
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7 Things Elegant Ladies Never Do in The Bedroom
In this article we discuss the importance of bedroom etiquette. An elegant lady must act elegant everywhere!
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Violet Gibson - The Irish woman who shot Benito Mussolini
Efforts are being made to put up a plaque commemorating Violet Gibson in Dublin.
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Top open source, tech-smart, board-ready women executives
Many open source organizations and companies are already headed by women, but there are many others who are ready for the boardroom.
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Glass Portrait of Vice President Kamala Harris at Lincoln Memorial Celebrates Her Shattering of Historic Glass Ceiling
The one-of-a-kind broken glass medium used by the artist to create the portrait uniquely embodies Kamala Harris' glass-shattering achievement.
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Women at midlife are the ones most likely to experience low sexual desire with associated personal distress
Findings from the Journal of Sexual Medicine suggest that low sexual desire accompanied by distress is most common among women reaching midlife. Having a partner, being sexually inactive, and taking psychotropic medication was also associated with a higher likelihood of such distress.
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Women with higher levels of social anxiety may be more accurate in identifying emotions
New research indicates that women with higher levels of social anxiety display heightened performance in a test of cognitive empath
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