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By Juliana Britto Schwartz • 7 years ago

Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

In this short film, watch as three Pacific Islanders travel to visit and build solidarity with indigenous communities fighting tar sands expansion in Canada.

By Juliana Britto Schwartz • 8 years ago

COP22 – the conference in which world leaders meet to discuss how to fight climate change – is happening this week. Read about the UN’s report that 2016 will be the hottest on record, how Trump could roll back U.S. environmental protections, and our previous COP coverage.

COP22 – the conference in which world leaders meet to discuss how to fight climate change – is happening this week. Read about the UN’s report that 2016 will be the hottest on record, how ...

By Katie Barnes • 8 years ago

New favorite website: fairygodboss.com

I don’t know about you, but when I started dipping my toes in the proverbial waters of the corporate job search, I spent a lot of time reading reviews. These reviews are nice to have. Many of them are anonymous. And none of them are really designed to address what it’s like to work at a company as a woman.

I don’t know about you, but when I started dipping my toes in the proverbial waters of the corporate job search, I spent a lot of time reading reviews. These reviews are nice to have. Many of ...

By Maya Dusenbery • 9 years ago

Anne-Marie Slaughter on how to support caregiving and change our toxic work culture

Anne-Marie Slaughter’s been following up her much-discussed 2012 Atlantic article, “Why Women Still Can’t Have it All,” with a book on the subject, and offers a taste of it in the New York Times this past weekend.

Anne-Marie Slaughter’s been following up her much-discussed 2012 Atlantic article, “Why Women Still Can’t Have it All,” with a book on the subject, and offers a taste of it in the ...

By Chloe Angyal • 9 years ago

On Mother’s Day, John Oliver goes HAM on the US’s crappy family leave policies

On last night’s episode of Last Week Tonight, John Oliver covered a big feminist issue: paid family leave.

By Maya Dusenbery • 9 years ago

Most young people in the US want to equally share work and family responsibilities

According to a new study, to be published in the American Sociological Review, the majority of young people in the US would ideally like to be in an egalitarian relationship in which both partners equally split work and family responsibilities.

By Maya Dusenbery • 9 years ago

President Obama calls for paid sick and parental leave for all

The movement to ensure that everyone can take a day off from work if they or their family are sick has been gaining steam over the last few years, thanks to the collaboration of feminist and labor forces. And today, President Obama is calling for the passage of a federal paid sick leave policy, as well as a new plan to help extend paid parental leave to all Americans.

The movement to ensure that everyone can take a day off from work if they or their family are sick has been gaining steam over the last few years, thanks to the collaboration of

By Maya Dusenbery • 10 years ago

New report shows how the “pregnancy penalty” drives economic inequality

A Better Balance, a legal advocacy organization in New York City, has a new report explaining how the “bias and inflexibility towards women in the workplace that starts when they become pregnant and snowballs into lasting economic disadvantages” is driving gender inequality and overall economic inequality in the city:

Despite advances in gender equality over the past 40 years, women continue to jeopardize their livelihoods simply by having children. The pregnancy penalty helps to explain why mothers as a whole continue to earn five to six percent less than non-mothers, and why historically disadvantaged women, single mothers and black women, have seen their wage penalties rise sharply since 1977. In New York City, single, childless women under age ...