Sally Snowman belongs to a tradition of freedom, loneliness, and pride.

Sally Snowman belongs to a tradition of freedom, loneliness, and pride. Of the 70 keepers who have tended to Boston Light since 1716, Snowman is the first and only woman.

While secular women may see education as a route to a more lucrative or successful career, most of Brigham Young University's female alumni never work outside the home, despite having attended a top university.

While one in four Qantas employees had experienced sexual harassment in the past year from a coworker or passenger, female pilots reported the highest rates of sexual harassment and bullying.

At the US Open, however, the balls played by men and women are subtly different. Men use Wilson’s extra-duty version, with a black Wilson logo and a red US Open print. Due to Women’s Tennis Association regulations, women use different balls—regular-duty, with the colors reversed. They’re both the same size—Type 2—but the regular-duty balls are a little sleeker, with shorter fibers, and play a little faster by consequence.

In addition to making her picture stand out, the vertical orientation was “a good way to distinguish it” from earlier notes, the bank spokesperson said. With each new set of banknotes, “we try to innovate.”

In post-revolutionary Russia, as the country’s thinkers attempted to work out a new way of life for citizens of the Soviet Union, a small number of artists grappled with a different problem: the clothes of the future.

Attrition of female employees seems to set in at once they reach middle management, which means executive-level employees are overwhelmingly male. One solution? Make parental leave compulsory for all new parents, regardless of their gender.

On average, what does the most admirable man in the world look like? According to Americans, he’s white, in his late sixties, an American born to white American parents, straight, and a present or former US president. The most admirable woman, however, is somewhat more diverse. She might run a country, but she’s as likely to be a judge, or an activist. And she’s nearly a decade younger than her male counterpart.

Throughout history, women have always written—thoughts, letters, poems, stories—but their work is often excluded from the canon or forgotten altogether. A new EU project is hoping to change that, by providing Spanish academic Carme Font Paz, of Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, with a €1.5 million ($1.7 million) research grant. Over the next five years, Font will work with a small team to uncover neglected European female writers from between 1500 to 1780.

In an open year-end letter to staff, Handler and Friedman decried “the thoughtless, paranoid, and fundamentally wrong reaction that many people in our industry are expressing about the #MeToo movement.”