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White people can't all be racist… right? After spending 20 years running diversity trainings for big companies, Dr. Robin DiAngelo has heard eve

Women are more often sent to therapists instead of prescribed pain management solutions because doctors assume they are overly emotional. And when the pati

Emily Gorcenski is a survivor of white supremacist attacks at the Charlottesville, VA rally and an activist. The opinions expressed here are her own. This

We need to talk about the new employment “trend”: overworking. Have you seen this ad for Timberland that informs us that we’ll never be able

Today, there are roughly 55 million Latinxs living in the U.S. — each one of us with unique cultural experiences. In our new series #SomosLatinx, R29

If you think California’s new law requiring publicly traded companies headquartered in the state to have at least one women on their board is a superfluo

When I asked Dr. Brittney Cooper, author of Eloquent Rage about the summer of BBQ Becky, Permit Patty and Pool Patrol Paula, she replied, simply, “wh

This morning, Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, the first of at least three different women to come forward and say they experienced sexual misconduct at the hand

Why do salaried employees get far more benefits than hourly employees? This week, I spoke with Rent the Runway CEO Jennifer Hyman, an entrepreneur who real

Professor Katherine Phillips from Columbia Business School says that, across five different studies, she found that women were more confident at work when

Is it time to replace the White men who have held elected office for over ten years? Alessandra Biaggi thinks so. In the midst of our political firestorm,

Who knew a movie called The Wife could be so interesting? Well, Glenn Close did. The Wife is Glenn Close’s new film based on the Meg Wolitzer novel of th

In a wide-ranging conversation with Refinery29 to promote her YouTube Premium series, Sideswiped, actress Rosanna Arquette opened up about her career, bein

My partner and I are first time homebuyers. Our new home is great but it needs some… curb appeal. Having never hired a contractor before, I scheduled

It's a typical refrain you hear from many women: they do all of the work but don't get the credit they feel they deserve. That feeling is backed

Ladies get sued. Claire Wasserman started Ladies Get Paid, a company that provides resources for women to push for bigger paychecks and more career opportu

I feel ambivalent about skin care being rebranded as self care. Don’t get me wrong, I love any excuse to look inward — but I’m literally stopping at

Female comedians are doing a much better job covering the news than… the actual news. Elisa Kreisinger/Pop Culture Pirate examines why women in comed