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30 Criticisms That Hold Women Leaders Back, According to New Research (www.sheknows.com)

‘The researchers found that there was no “sweet spot” where a woman could position herself without being criticized. Women were either too young or too old, too attractive or not attractive enough, too educated or not educated enough. Introverted women were not seen as leaders and extroverted women were viewed as...

The Summer of the Black Woman (19thnews.org)

Bedtime Check-Ins and Verbal Abuse: Women’s Life in Spanish Soccer (www.nytimes.com)

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A Historic First for Mexico as Two Women Vie for the Presidency (www.nytimes.com)

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Talking Menopause & Aging While Decorating Vulva and Uterus Biscuits! (www.youtube.com)

Educational chatter about aging and menopause. I realized watching this that I haven’t ever been taught anything about menopause in my life. This was enlightening so I wanted to share.

‘You Know What To Do, Boys’: Sexist App Lets Men Rate AI-Generated Women (www.vice.com)

20 years after Mark Zuckerberg’s infamous ‘hot-or-not’ website, developers have learned absolutely nothing....

Opinion | Why do men kill women’s plants? (wapo.st)

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Strong women gave us a compelling World Cup. Weak men obscured it. (wapo.st)

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The women’s recession is officially over — but not everyone has recovered equally (19thnews.org)

Patients have better outcomes with female surgeons, studies find (www.theguardian.com)

Women working in Antarctica say they were left to fend for themselves against sexual harassers (apnews.com)

How our female athletes feel forced to choose between a ‘strong’ or ‘feminine’ look (www.staffs.ac.uk)

A Century of “Shrill”: How Bias in Technology Has Hurt Women’s Voices (www.newyorker.com)

An old article, but I just stumbled upon it and found it enlightening. The trope of criticizing women for the way they talk has deeper implications than I thought.

How the patriarchy contributes to climate chaos [27:49] (www.youtube.com)

1 in 5 women report mistreatment from medical staff during pregnancy (www.npr.org)

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The day women shut down Iceland (youtu.be)

I walked home alone a few days ago and couldn't enjoy it as much as I wanted to. So I wrote this poem about my experience

I don’t know if content like this is welcome here. I thought that probably many here can relate and I needed to vent. But I don’t want to spam the community with something it wasn’t intended for, so please feel free to tell me if this doesn’t fit here and I’ll delete the post....

Clinic Fire Deals Blow to Abortion Access on California-Arizona Border (theintercept.com)

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The Protests Inside Iran’s Girls’ Schools (www.newyorker.com)

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Feminist Book Review: Nimona (herstoryarc.com)

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Ohio’s Special Election Shows Abortion Is Still Driving People to the Polls (www.vanityfair.com)

'Barbie' dominates cinemas: Movie tops $1 billion globally in first for solo woman director (youtube.com)

The pink wave has yet to crest, the ‘Barbie’ movie has sold more than a billion dollars worth of tickets at the global box office, after just 17 days on general release. The milestone makes Greta Gerwig the first woman to reach the such heights as a solo director.

Has defunct anti-abortion charity resurfaced in secret? (www.opendemocracy.net)

An anti-abortion charity that claimed to have shut down following a scandal nine years ago may have resurfaced as a directory of so-called ‘crisis pregnancy centres’ (CPCs), an openDemocracy investigation has discovered....