Despite her best efforts to build a social justice startup focused on sex education, there were tensions between startup culture and the social justice space.
Executive producers Jesse Daniels and Brie Miranda Bryant detail the challenges and fear of returning to the groundbreaking Lifetime docuseries Surviving R Kelly.
If women don't conform to beauty expectations, they're paid less.
Stories abound of women who have dieted alongside a man, only to see his fat melt away — while they struggle to change the number on the scale. What's the deal?
Female graduates of the largest majority-Mormon university earn on average $800 a year. What gives?
With remarkable clarity, Greta Gerwig's adaptation establishes love and its complement, sacrifice, as mutually engaged emotions.
Every couple of years some scientist says they're on the brink, and then nothing happens. What's the obstacle here, exactly?
There's still no evidence to support this claim.
The author dismissed her famous book — the subject of a new film hitting theaters Christmas Day — as "dull" and "moral pap for the young."
Even as brands put more women's-specific shoes on the market, female foot pain persists. The problem, it turns out, is that we aren't sure how to design a safe, comfortable shoe in the first place.
Nobody set out to make one of this decade's most influential styles of game. It just happened. What's next?
This decade, Black women shifted how we listen to music. Three cultural critics gathered the 10 bodies of work by Black women that defined the 2010s.
Nearly 40 percent of pregnant surgery residents consider dropping out. Many wonder: Why can't the system accommodate motherhood?
"Orange is the New Black" felt like unprecedented victory; now, it seems like the bare minimum.
Though the "Harry Potter" author has been criticized for veiled transphobia before, her recent tweet makes it plain.
"This reality must also be reflected in our nation's newsrooms, where two-thirds of political journalists are still white men and women are still covered as a special-interest group."
Male researchers are more likely than women to use "novel" and other flattering terms to promote their studies.
Thirty-five years after its initial publication, "Heartburn" feels fresh not because of its plot, but because of Ephron's prose — incandescent, seething, quippy.
Why boys crack up at rape jokes, think having a girlfriend is "gay" and still can't cry — and why we need to give them new and better models of masculinity.
College student Liu Jingyao accused a tech billionaire of rape. Then the Chinese internet turned against her.
Marilyn Monroe, Kim Novak, Ayn Rand, and Rita Moreno were part of a sorority of stars at what amounted to a safe haven for aspiring celebrities.
Demographics will determine who gets hit worst by automation. Policy will help curb the damage.
Sparse lines about heartbreak in faux-typewriter font are still the style du jour, but the men of Poetry Instagram are more sincere (and self-aware) than you'd think.
It's not just sex that challenges male-female relationships — but financial imbalance is a factor we almost never talk about
A spate of lawsuits against giants from Google and Twitter to Nike and Goldman Sachs reveals the growing frustrations of professional women.
Alex Bozarjian says the man who attacked her during a race "hit her hard" and she filed a police report.
Another site is about to close, joining other publications like The Hairpin and The Toast that are dead or dying, as their "rowdy" voices go mainstream.
The Cut and YouGov polled more than 1,200 people to understand why people dislike this election's female presidential candidates.
But the eye doesn't necessarily gaze at what is beautiful
These assessments shouldn't just be based on median salary.
Fixing the gender gap may take more than just adding safety features.
Plenty of candidates who were polling far below Kamala Harris remain in the running for president.
Women with power have the capacity to silence women with less — and they wield it. Why can't they see that?
That used tampon isn't going to hurt you, despite what the ancient blood-aversion buried deep in your psyche is telling you
Officials at the Indian Council of Medical Research have completed clinical testing of a new male contraceptive, a nonsurgical vasectomy called RISUG.
There's a 21-point gender gap in polling on impeachment of President Trump. Here's what it could mean for 2020.
The documentary "Losing Lena" tells the story of a "Playboy" photo commonly used for testing a compression algorithm.
There remains an essential incongruity: Kross and Ferrara seem in a constant flux of balancing power, especially at work. As she put it, "Manuel gets to perform with other women while I don't with other men."
Is intermittent fasting a wellness practice, or just another double standard?
Mental health is complicated, murky, and nuanced. Which is why brands need to find a better way to address it.
This writer's hot girl cup runneth over with an abundance of music that shows off Black female rappers' prowess and power.
This very short story is worth your time.
Probably the only man in the entire world who can pull off a "Moustache Rides" T-shirt.
Less than 10% of the top-earning dead celebrities are women — it shows how the gender pay gap persists even after life.
I've noticed a lot of brilliant women, real and fictional, giving up on shouting and taking a darkly sarcastic approach to their grievances instead.
"The Mandalorian" from Disney+ brings new life to the franchise, but something is still missing.
The largest study of mass shooters ever funded by the US government reveals stunning information about perpetrators.
Study finds Gen Zers have the most negative attitudes toward LGBTQ+ people.
In conversation with sci-fi writer Charlie Jane Anders, Rayna explains how The Left Hand of Darkness gave her permission to defy gender norms.
Dipse''s Gina Gutierrez spends her days setting investors straight and moderating "Hunks Brainstorm" sessions.
Since the show's premiere in 1976, critics have derided the material's sexist depiction of hot babes solving crimes. Is this reboot any different?
The US tax code helps entrench gender divisions. It doesn't have to be that way.
All-male support groups can help men with depression by providing a space free of toxic masculinity.
First Princess Latifa tried to flee by boat and almost made it to India—before being sent back. Then Princess Haya, Sheikh Mohammed's "public wife," refused to return from England. Now the sheikh is battling her in court over their children.
The notion that testosterone drives violent crime is like a zombie, a fact that seemingly can't be killed with new research.
Apple's credit card is being investigated for the discriminatory algorithm Apple and Goldman Sachs use to determine credit limits.
Jamie Heinemeier Hansson speaks out about her experience on the receiving end of a black box algorithm, which deemed that her husband, tech entrepreneur David Heinemeier Hansson, was worthy of a credit limit 20 times hers.
On therapy and acting like a man.
With violent misogyny on one side and endless navel-gazing on the other, there's a call for a new, bullshit-free movement for positive masculinity.
Legislators want to have a say in whether Luna Younger should be allowed to socially transition. This could set a dangerous precedent.
