While we must teach boys & men to not assault women, self-defense training can move the needle by shifting men’s understanding of their place in the world & the wider conditions within which men make choices about violence & non-violence." www.theatlantic.com/family/2026/...

This Is What Women’s Self-Defense Looks Like

It’s not just about protection. It’s about living a bigger life.

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TLC's “Double Lives of Suburban Wives” introduces conservative women who decorate their homes with crucifixes & make “spicy content” for adult subscribers. Many became cam girls because they or their husbands lost jobs or weren’t getting paid enough to make ends meet. www.salon.com/2026/09/12/t...

The tradwife brand may finally be crumbling

Mormon Wives fatigue and Nara Smith's distancing spell trouble for lifestyle influencers

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Only 13% of women have hands large enough to play fast octaves on a standard piano vs 76% of men. Smaller-handed pianists get injured more often & blame their bodies instead of the design. String instruments are made in graduated sizes yet the piano is fixed. news.stanford.edu/stories/2026...

Research questions piano’s one-size-fits-all keyboard

Only 13 percent of women can comfortably span an octave on a standard piano. Few thought to ask whether the piano was the problem.

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Women have been socially deprived of laughter throughout history, viewed as a threat to the male hierarchy. Even today, women's laughter is more scrutinized in public life--just think of Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris. psyche.co/ideas/why-wo...

Why women’s laughter has long been treated as a threat | Psyche Ideas

Traditional patriarchy has always told women not to laugh. Today, female laughter still disturbs a male-dominated world

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Study (N=9,500) finds women who played at least 3 years of high school sports are - 50% more likely to hold leadership roles - 37% more likely to aspire to sr leadership - 35% more likely to have negotiated their salary @elfcosmetics.bsky.social investor.elfbeauty.com/stock-and-fi...

e.l.f. Beauty and Parity Release “Girls Who Play Change the Game”, Connecting Girls' Sports Participation to Long-Term Workplace Impact

One of the largest and broadest studies of its kind, the study reveals the connection between the skills girls learn playing sports and women's careersOAKLAND, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- e.l.f. Beauty ...

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Christian women may think they are not political, but they have been taught what to believe, how to live & how to vote. Women’s place is the home, femininity a religious duty, hierarchy not equality and happiness through obedience to God & men. @kkdumez.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/09/01/o...

Opinion | Christian Women Say They’re Not Political. Their Living Rooms Disagree.

Precious Moments figurines and Christian romance novels aren’t overtly political, but they shape how Christian women see themselves and the world.

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Among top ten natural and health science journals, none are at parity for women first or last authors. 8 did not improve % of female first authorships by more than 4 points in the past decade. 6 had women make up less than 1/3 of first authorships in 2025. www.nature.com/nature-index...

Women make up less than one-fifth of last authorships in influential journals

A Nature Index analysis tracked first and last authorships to see which journals struggled to improve female representation over the past decade.

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New Census Bureau survey data shows 22% of workers worked from home some of the time in 2025, down <1 point from 2024. Hybrid work increased slightly. Avg remote hrs fell from 27 to 26 hrs. A plateau in remote work where many executives wanted a retreat. thehill.com/opinion/tech...

Office mandates are not a loyalty test

Remote work stopped being a pandemic exception. Leaders who keep asking whether they can force people back will keep fighting yesterday’s argument.

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Study (2003-2017) finds when states end affirmative action contracting policies, minority- & women-owned businesses become 10.9% smaller by employee count. Business sale value decreases by 10%. States attract 35 fewer minority- & women-owned contractors per year. www.promarket.org/2026/09/08/a...

After Affirmative Action Ends, Minority- and Women-Owned Contractors Face an Uphill Battle - ProMarket

In new research, Benjamin Rosa finds that when states ban affirmative action, minority- and women-run businesses become smaller than other contractors and are less likely to enter the market, but are ...

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To live the tradwife life depicted online, you need to have a lot of money. Hannah Neeleman’s father-in-law founded JetBlue. Lucky Blue Smith’s net worth is estimated to be $6 million (her husband only has $1 million). www.thenation.com/article/soci...

There’s Nothing Traditional About Tradwives

Propagandists for stay-at-home domesticity are monetizing a fantasy—and they’re not really staying at home.

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How would men would feel if they were the 99% depicted in nonconsensual & pornographic AI deepfakes? Or if male-dominated occupations were 2x as likely to be affected by gen AI. Women's concerns about AI aren't fear of tech but a response to unequal risks. www.fastcompany.com/91584377/wom...

Women are sounding the alarm on AI. Leaders should listen

Their concerns aren't rooted in a fear of change but in understanding the unequal risks AI presents.

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Tips to share the mental load: - Communicate clearly w/ your partner - Create a shared calendar of family events - List out tasks and divide up ownership. Don't worry about exact 50/50. Aim for a division that feels equitable to both of you - Have regular check-ins www.bbc.com/news/article...

Why more women carry the 'mental load' - and how couples can share it

Planning, organising and remembering household tasks often fall disproportionately to mothers - here are some tips to help.

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Maggie Gyllenhaal on why women filmmakers are underrepresented in the main competition at Venice: it is harder to get their films financed and decision makers don't consider their work to be high art. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

Maggie Gyllenhaal Was Asked to Use AI to Recreate Marilyn Monroe. But It Flopped Compared to Dakota Johnson

The Venice Film Festival jury president said her AI experiment "fundamentally did not work. All the reasons we decided to make this project to begin with were killed off in the AI version."

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When Gloria Steinem was an editor at New York Magazine in the late 60s, she was considered a 'girl editor. The men told her to not to get involved with the 'crazy' feminists. She didn't listen. She founded Ms. Magazine with a team of other feminists in 1971. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/04/b...

How Gloria Steinem and Ms. Magazine Transformed the Publishing Industry

The feminist icon insisted that women were not a niche audience — and proved it in 1971 with the start of an influential publication owned and operated by them.

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The Trump administration is trying to incentivize women staying out of the workforce by subsidizing a married parent who stays-at-home. It would take funds from a program that helps working parents afford child care, 80% of whom are single & mostly women. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/05/u...

Trump Officials Draft Plan to Pay At-Home Parents, Using Funds for Working Ones

The proposed benefit, a top policy priority for Vice President JD Vance, would apply only to married couples and tap a fund intended to provide federal child care subsidies to working parents.

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Just got done recording an episode of Dear Education, @Jeannie Armstrong-Dowdall's new podcast. The sector of education touches everyone in the workforce & truly shapes society. We discuss glass walls, mean girls, gendered ageism & combatting bias against women. Can't wait to share it.

Pregnancy discrimination laws & policies don't fully protect pregnant women/new mothers from being laid off. Employers use neutral-sounding justifications (like downsizing) for discriminatory decisions. If this happens to you, call an employment lawyer. www.cnbc.com/2026/09/02/g...

These women were laid off while on maternity leave. Yes, it's legal, and probably more common than you thought

It's never a good time to be laid off. Losing your job with a newborn can be especially hard.

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Gloria Steinem lived at a time when landlords turned away single women, marriage cost women rights, marital rape was legal & there was no term for sexual harassment. She saw progress but women's equality remains unfinished. It is up to us to carry on her legacy. www.forbes.com/sites/kimels...

Gloria Steinem Faced Decades Of Sexism. Here’s What’s Changed And What Hasn’t

Some of the sexism Steinem encountered early in her career now seems almost incomprehensible. Other aspects seem surprisingly familiar.

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Watching 9 to 5 on Netflix. (For the first time...I was a little girl when it was first released.) Thinking of Dolly Parton and Gloria Steinem. www.whats-on-netflix.com/whats-new/cl...

Classic Dolly Parton Movie Returns to Netflix After 10-Year Absence

Nine to Five is back on Netflix joining a collection of other titles featuring the late singer and actress.

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September's second shift: Someone scheduled the physical, completed forms, tracked the supply list & monitored the school portal. Someone worried whether the child would recognize a friendly face & feel confident. That “someone” is still likely a mother. www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/reth...

September and the Second Shift

Why can back-to-school feel so demanding? The answer may lie in parental investment, cognitive labor, and the structure of work and family life.

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Mrs. America is a good watch in honor of Gloria Steinem. It tells the story of the movement to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment. And includes the story of Gloria's early feminist activism. She fought for women and marginalized groups to the end. www.hulu.com/series/96f33...

Mrs. America

Mrs. America tells the story of the movement to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), and the unexpected backlash led by a conservative woman named Phyllis Schlafly, aka “the sweetheart of the sile...

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Gloria Steinem was a feminist icon. She brought a feminist perspective into the mainstream through journalism, public speaking and activism. She wrote 9 books, campaigned against domestic violence, female genital mutilation, porn industry & Vietnam & Gulf wars. www.theguardian.com/books/2026/s...

Gloria Steinem, groundbreaking feminist campaigner, dies aged 92

Famous for the 1963 exposé in which she worked as a Playboy Bunny, her books and journalism took on many varieties of discrimination

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As I wrote for @fastcompany.com , women are sounding an alarm about AI. But they are not rooted in a fear of change but in the unequal risks of AI: From bias to privacy to environmental costs to job exposure to competence penalties to emotional labor. www.fastcompany.com/91584377/wom...

Women are sounding the alarm on AI. Leaders should listen

Their concerns aren't rooted in a fear of change but in understanding the unequal risks AI presents.

fastcompany.com

High-control leaders like the office because they can read the room, interrupt, summon, stare, praise, punish and perform authority in real time. Video calls-- when everyone is a square-- flatten that drama and create more equity. thehill.com/opinion/tech...

When a return-to-office mandate is just about the boss’s narcissism

New research on remote work resistance argues that some leaders do not simply prefer the office because collaboration is easier there — they prefer it because the office gives them an audience, a h…

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37% of Americans thinks it is not likely that the US will elect a woman president in their lifetime, up from 26% in 2023. 39% of women & 27% of men, 54% of Democrats & 13% of Republicans think it is important that a woman is elected president. www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

Duke professor Dan Ariely was named 636 times in the Epstein files & the two men met over 7 times after Epstein's 2008 conviction. Now an additional Ariely research paper (cited 2,200+ times) was found to have data 'severely tampered with or fabricated.' www.dukechronicle.com/article/duke...

‘Insane data’: Duke professor Dan Ariely accused of additional research fraud

New evidence released Monday shows that Dan Ariely, professor of business administration in the Fuqua School of Business, likely tampered with or fabricated data in an influential research paper from ...

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Girls Gone Bible hosts speak of burnout w/o addressing the economic forces behind their generation’s exhaustion and despair. They detail mental health struggles, but don't interrogate the institutional roadblocks women face when they try to get help. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

‘Demonic oppression’ and ‘girly convos’: the podcast wooing young women back to Christianity

Girls Gone Bible is on tour in the US, touting a regressive ideal of femininity through discussions of abstinence and mental health struggles

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Survey of 150 sports & outdoor product consumers found that 53% of men rated the Callaway/Good Good ad of a male golfer pushing over a woman as "appropriate" vs 35% of women. 37% of women said their opinion of Callaway became more negative vs only 13% of men. www.forbes.com/sites/kimels...

Men And Women Viewed The Good Good Golf Ad Very Differently

A new survey found that only about one-third of consumers rated the controversial Good Good ad inappropriate, with women more likely than men to disapprove.

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TV show study finds the majority of women in speaking roles (2025-26) were in their 20s & 30s; men were in 30s and 40s. The # of female characters steeply decline as they aged from 30s to 40s, while their male counterparts didn’t drop until their 50s. www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/w...

Fewer Women Are Creating TV Shows Now Than They Were Nearly a Decade Ago, Study Finds

The latest “Boxed In” report spotlights a decline in female representation behind and in front of the camera.

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Trump has demeaned female reporters at least 13 times since Nov 2025, insulting their appearance & capability and saying they should 'be quiet'. He attacks male reporters too, but those insults tend to be less personal. www.axios.com/2026/08/31/t...

Trump keeps turning his fire on female reporters

Press freedom advocates say Trump's attacks on female reporters undermine media trust.

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