By Maya Dusenbery • @mayadusenbery • 8 years ago

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How the workplace gradually grinds women down until they’re less ambitious than their male counterparts. 

Female scientists asked how they will cope without men or makeup in space.

Former Feministing editor Samhita on the SXSW mess.

China ended its one-child policy.

A woman whose baby would have been stillborn was forced to travel 300 miles to Chicago for an abortion because no Ohio abortion clinic would do the procedure.

Congress must pass the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act.

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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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