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Fidget spinners. Gravity blankets. Tinctures. Serums. What is up with products that claim to cure our anxiety? Do they even work? I love my Gravity blanket

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The Gender Pain Gap Is Real & Hurting Women

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

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Are We Working Ourselves To Death?

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

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Why Most Obituaries Are Still Of White Men

Looking at the Obituary section of the New York Times since it's first publication in 1851, you might think that 75% of people who die each week are W

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Gender Blindness At Work Is Not What You Think

I spoke with Columbia Business School Professor Katherine Phillips who changed the way I thought about what it really means to be a feminist in the workpla

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Movies

Glenn Close Opens Up About The Personal Compromise Of Being The "...

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

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Work & Money

Ghostwriting: The Invisible Career That Actually Pays Off

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

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Video

Is The Skin-Care Industry Using "Self Care" To Scam Us?

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

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This Woman Turned 40, Single and Childfree; Then She Had The Auda...

American women are marrying later and later, if they are even choosing the marry at all. But too many stories we hear and tell about women are about them b

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Actually, Nice Girls Do Get The Corner Office

Fran Hauser, former media executive, didn’t expect to write a book about kindness. But as a mentor to tons of young women, Hauser was always asked how sh

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Why Is Bitcoin So Bro-y?

Even though Bitcoin seems to be a revolutionary way to disrupt wealth distribution, it also combines the sexism embedded in the finance tech industries int

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Work & Money

Why Girls Excel At School But Not In The Working World

By now, surely you’ve heard the phrase “carry yourself with the confidence of a mediocre white man.” It’s funny, honest and, it turns out, actually

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Entertainment News

This Is Why Tan France Refused To Shoot Queer Eye

"It was a very honest question for them. They weren’t trying to be funny. Our show is about bridging these divides. It gives us an opportunity to have a

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Books & Art

Redefining How Our Culture Looks at Millennials, One Selfie at a ...

Author and visual art critic Alicia Eler defines herself as a selfie expert after watching the boundaries between our digital and physical lives blurred w

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Entertainment

Was Your Pop Culture Ruined By Predators?

It’s been six months since New York Times journalists Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor first exposed Harvey Weinstein’s history of abuse of power that spar

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Sex

What This Sex Tech Entrepreneur Learned From Dating Younger Men

“I began realising, through dating younger men, I was encountering what happens when today’s total freedom of access to hardcore porn online meets our

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Work & Money

The Money Habit Every Millennial Woman Should Start ASAP

Have you heard of Fuck Off Funds? The idea isn't new, but it seems newly relevant in the era of #MeToo. Regardless of whether you’re a woman working

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Music

How Mariah Carey Became The Queen Of Christmas Music

Christmas music is actually a hard market to dominate.

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Good News: The Most Popular Image Of A Woman Is No Longer Laughin...

Here's some good news for 2017: The most popular image of a woman is no longer the one of her laughing into a salad bowl. In the search for stock imag

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The Vital Thing Male Bosses Still Don't Get

If the gender politics of your office has ever made you feel like Mad Men's Peggy Olsen, you're not alone. While the days of overt misogyny may h

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Why Your Favourite Songs Might Not Always Match Your Politics

We've definitely all been there. That addictive getting-ready anthem, your go-to workout playlist, the break-up ballad so good you just left it on rep

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Living

The Secret History Of "Early Adopters" We Never Talk About

Who knew Harry Styles was so woke? Recently, the pop star was asked about his work's popularity among young women, and whether he felt their investmen

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Video

The Annoying Thing That Happens To Women After They Have A Baby

How this pervasive difference in pay impacts American families.

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Video

Turns Out, Republicans Sound Frighteningly Like "The Handmaid's T...

In the end, maybe we shouldn't have been so surprised. The GOP party has been branded by its unabashed disdain for women's health care, and rose

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Living

How Instagram Distorts Our Idea Of Perfection

Life is hard. But we make it look easy on Instagram

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