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Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

In a new study, daughters of working mothers completed more years of education, were more likely to be employed, and earned higher incomes.

Black women’s lives don’t matter in academia either. 

An interview with the director of an organization that helps women in Ireland travel abroad to get safe, legal abortions.

An interview with the women behind the Bessie Smith biopic.

Anti-feminist Amy Alkon tries to argue that Sheryl Sandberg’s Lean In is “anti-science” because evolutionary psychology.

How the US’s failing public transportation system increases inequality.

“Women have abortions for many different reasons. God trusts and empowers us to make the best decisions for our families and ourselves.”

Pitch Perfect 2 wins the weekend. Of course.

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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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