How do we handle the math? What if I told you that a study showed the number of breast cancer diagnoses dropped by 170,799 in some Year II compared to Year I? […]
Women’s health and transgender advocacy
Google was right to fire sexist manifesto-writer James Damore
Google’s not responsible for firing James Damore for writing a 10-page sexist rant. James Damore is.
A letter to my nieces, November 2016
By Amber Healy In the early afternoon of Election Day 2016, I traded messages with a good friend, heart swelling with hope. “To think … maybe, just maybe, the kiddos we love […]
‘Total Frat Move’? More like Total F*cking Misogynists
You may have seen your favorite celebrity like Taylor Swift or Gigi Hadid sporting one of these babies [referring to high-waisted bikini bottoms] on their latest social media post … either way, […]
‘Stand by your (wo)man’: create an expectation of equality
by Amber Healy This has been a weird few weeks for women. There’s talk of opening up the draft in the United States to women, now that more women are taking on […]
Stop the rape epidemic, part 2
We have a problem. No doubt about it. Women were raped in Cologne, Germany and the police tried to sweep it under the rug. It’s the same problem we’ve been having forever, in the […]
Without ordination, women can’t contribute equally in decisions on religious dogma
By Whitney Downard Despite political and social gains elsewhere, women cannot hold many high religious offices because of their gender. By limiting leadership positions to men, churches erode women’s role in defining […]
For Women’s History Month – five women who influenced the science of evolution
Next up, I offer some women of science. Rosalind Franklin: Rosalind Franklin was an English chemist and X-ray crystallographer who made critical contributions to the understanding of the fine molecular structures of DNA […]
Stop the Rape Epidemic: female lives matter
Good sex is when two nervous systems become one. It’s selfless, literally. A completely unrelated type of good sex is when two nervous systems generate a new nervous system through physical contact. […]
Jackie Mitchell: the legend of the woman who struck out Ruth and Gehrig
Did a woman really whiff two of the greatest sluggers of all time … back to back? We’ll never know, but it’s plausible. My buddy Guy Saperstein sent this around last night. […]
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