Today in The New York Times there are two powerful stories featuring powerful women who've opened up about personal health issues that have been a part of their lives. They both reflect a changing of the times, in how we talk about disease, and in how we might more openly reach for help when needed, making the most informed choices we can for ourselves.
Two contrasting articles about gender and jobs are circulating today. One is FINS reporter Julie Steinberg's piece, "Yes, Ladies You DO Need to Play Golf." The other is a New York Times piece about men entering fields traditionally dominated by women.
After Jack Welch likened women's employee groups to "victim's units," The Wall Street Journal's John Bussey has canvassed the female CEOs of Fortune 500 companies for their career tips for women.
Even as there are slow but steady steps forward in the way women's magazines talk to women, there are setbacks, like a recent offering from Glamour which we can add to the list of articles we wish journalists (female ones, at that) would stop writing for women.
There's a new French president, and with him, a new French First Lady. But—shhh—they're not married.
A group of women recently got very angry when Jack Welch, former "Master and Commander of General Electric," addressed them with regard to getting ahead in their careers at a recent speaking engagement.
If President Obama and Democrats want to portray themselves as on Team Woman, why are they making us feel as much anxiety as any insecurity-inducing women's magazine?
Inspired by a recent Wall Street Journal piece titled "Nine Rules Women Must Follow to Get Ahead," we compiled a list of eight other articles that journalists should stop writing. Wednesday, The Journal responded with a new post.
Data released by the World Health Organization brings a new topic to the table of the standard baby conversation in the U.S.A.
For ever and ever, women have been unfairly judged for something they can change only slightly at the margins -- their physical appearance -- while men have been free to be heinous, and it's been a change for the better that mocking women for their looks like has become less acceptable.
Are you a woman who wants to "get ahead"? Perhaps you've seen a recent article in The Wall Street Journal titled, helpfully, "Nine Rules Women Must Follow to Get Ahead."
A new report came out today bestowing Washington, D.C. with the distinction as the number one city for the "well-being" of women. As women who live in this city, we debate that point.
What do Silicon Valley startups have in common with fraternities? A lot, it turns out.
Maybe in the old days a woman would be catcalled and do nothing about it. But it's a different world now, full of smartphones and civilian documenters and people who won't simply put up with things.
Dissatisfied with this afternoon's inductees into the Internet Hall of Fame, Gizmodo has posted an alternate list of people it says "made the Internet worth coming to in the first place, and kept us clicking."
Girl World is the unseen parallel dimension where women wage a forever war between shifting alliances in a John Connor-less dystopia.
On April 3, the finalists of the National Magazine Awards were announced. They were very, very manly.
Ann Romney, who is not running for president, has rekindled the Mommy Wars by giving a single interview defending herself after a Democratic talking head said a single mean thing about her resume.
Discovered: Definitive proof that the IQ gene exists, women are the moral sex, America has the world's saltiest food and the right way to respond to an earthquake.
Ann Romney's very first tweet, in response to a dumb comment about stay-at-home moms, said, "I made a choice to stay home and raise five boys. Believe me, it was hard work." She wasn't kidding!
Whenever Mitt Romney talks about money, he loses. His wife, Ann, is usually much better than he is at projecting sincerity in the artificial situations of the campaign, but she, too has stumbled when talking about money.
Mitt Romney's campaign has launched an all-out war against President Obama to win the ladies back. Unfortunately, the weapons at its disposal are quite limited.
It's been something of a rocky round between women and Rick Santorum in the past, as he seemed to have had a special way of offending some female or another at nearly every turn. And now that he's gracefully bowed out, we'd like to gracefully thank him.
Sunday's Mad Men took a darker than usual turn, set against the backdrop of the actual story of Richard Speck's rape and murder of 8 student nurses in 1966.
Inspired by the ongoing debates and misunderstandings about birth control and women's health care, Jezebel's Tracie Egan Morrissey has run down the general cost of being a woman.
The seemingly placid world of golf continues to invite criticism and commentary over the Masters Tournament—in particular, the fact that no woman has been offered membership into Georgia's Augusta National, where the Masters is held.
This kicks off our new series, Y.A. for Grownups, in which we talk about Y.A. literature—from the now nostalgia-infused stories we devoured as kids to more contemporary tomes being read by young people today. Despite what Joel Stein wants, grownups are reading Y.A. Let's embrace it.
Republican National Committee chair Reince Priebus denied that his party has a woman problem in a way that made a feminist argument, even if it was on accident: women shouldn't be considered a special interest group, but maybe old men should.
A quarter of the cover of The New York Post is devoted to the kind of story that pops up regularly as a warning screed, or perhaps a reminder, to the women of New York.
The National Magazine Award finalists have been announced, and women are not represented at all in reporting, feature writing, profile writing, essays and criticism, columns and commentary, or feature photography.
Being pretty is so, so hard. We know this because the the world's largest news site Daily Mail has a feature on it!
The first thing a lot of people do whenever a new list of "most outstandings" comes down the pike is check to see what the male to female breakdown is.
We're slowly getting a fuller picture of what the die-hard Mitt Romney fan looks like: a lover of online quizzes, photos, and Williams Sonoma, a hater of gambling and nunchucks.
A Maxim magazine an article entitled "How to Cure a Feminist" is inspiring lots of people around the Internet to get very angry. But this article is from 2003.
A phrase that keeps coming up this Republican primary season is "war on women." But what's interesting in the conversations about a so-called "war on women" is that women do not seem to be having it.
There's nothing inherently wrong with the idea of celebrating women on International Women's Day, but the way that many people are going about this "celebration" often seems to belittle the women they claim to support.
It would be tempting to say that no one has won with the initial slut-shaming and the firestorm that has ensued with Rushgate. But, if we're being honest, we have to admit that this may not have gone that terribly for quite a few people.
We took a look at some of the media's recent dietary darlings (aimed at both women and men) to see how they compare to the current gluten-free blitz.
Discovered: Venus has bad weather, women like men to feel their pain, how much water the Earth has lost, cancerless super mice, and how to change your DNA.
Rush Limbaugh's recent, awful attacks on Georgetown student Sandra Fluke, who had the audacity to testify about contraception at a hearing led by House Minority Leader Rep. Nancy Pelosi last Thursday, have inspired calls for Limbaugh to apologize as well as at least one company to pull advertising from his radio show.
Happy Leap Day. Today is a day that comes around only once every four years, and traditionally, because it was so shocking to imagine a woman ever proposing to a man, today would have been the day for that sort of funny business.
There's a new fiction series making waves among Upper East Side moms, and it happens to be the "triple-X" Fifty Shades trilogy featuring a 27-year-old billionaire, Christian Grey, who seduces a college graduate into becoming his submissive sex slave.
In what appears to be a progressive move by the French government, the prime minister has released orders for officials to stop using the word "Mademoiselle" on administrative documents.
Discovered: Weight loss might be contagious, just thinking about kids ruins women scientists, a new black hole, the Internet does not help failing relationships.
All the things that have drawn women to Pinterest, the social network of the moment, make the site a more appealing social network in general.
Rick Santorum says women shouldn't serve in combat, but he's happy to have his wife jump on a grenade for him.
This year marks the 50th anniversary of YA classic A Wrinkle in Time, Madeleine L'Engle's famous book that brought science fiction to girls (and boys, too!) and introduced the awesome girl character of Meg Murry.
The soon-to-be IPO-ed company has zero excuse for not having a single woman on its board.
Discovered: women can't handle pain, solving climate change with airplanes, a new gene to help Japanese rice farmers, Facebook friends are unreliable.
In our guide to the day's polls and why they matter, it's a tired trope to complain that most Americans don't know anything about anything, but a new survey shows while most voters don't know much about the Republican candidates , it's women voters who are distinctly clueless.
There's a group of Republicans eager to nominate a Not Romney candidate but having trouble embracing Newt Gingrich: conservative women who don't like his history of adultery.
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