income inequality map of US
By Maya Dusenbery • @mayadusenbery • 9 years ago

Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

Economic inequality is bad for health.

A big, important reporting project from RH Reality Check on the abuses of incarcerated women. 

Research finds no relationship between the amount of time parents spend with their kids and children’s outcomes.

Ellen Pao lost her lawsuit, but she may become the tech world’s Anita Hill.

A Tennessee prosecutor forced a mentally ill woman to get sterilized if she wanted a plea deal that would keep her out of prison.

#HerDreamDeferred

 

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Maya Dusenbery is executive director in charge of editorial at Feministing. She is the author of the forthcoming book Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick (HarperOne, March 2018). She has been a fellow at Mother Jones magazine and a columnist at Pacific Standard magazine. Her work has appeared in publications like Cosmopolitan.com, TheAtlantic.com, Bitch Magazine, as well as the anthology The Feminist Utopia Project. Before become a full-time journalist, she worked at the National Institute for Reproductive Health. A Minnesota native, she received her B.A. from Carleton College in 2008. After living in Brooklyn, Oakland, and Atlanta, she is currently based in the Twin Cities.

Maya Dusenbery is an executive director of Feministing and author of the forthcoming book Doing Harm on sexism in medicine.

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