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Join UsNew York’s radical female and non-binary skateboarders — in photos
Jacqui Palumbo /
CNN
"It's just so natural to be part of the community. They're very welcoming and inclusive."
How India calculates the value of women’s housework
Soutik Biswas /
BBC
For more than half-a-century, Indian courts have actually been awarding compensation for unpaid work done by homemakers. But only after their death. Judges have put a value on unpaid work of women who have died in road accidents and awarded compensation to their dependants.
Why did so many women wear purple to Biden’s inauguration today?
Anagha Srikanth /
The Hill
Vice President Harris and others in attendance wore the color purple on Inauguration Day. Their fashion choices spurred speculation, with some crediting the idea of unity. Others pointed to the historical association of purple with the women’s suffrage movement and Shirley Chisolm.
‘Male’ vs ‘female’ brains: having a mix of both is common and offers big advantages – new research
Barbara Jacquelyn SahakianChristelle LangleyQiang Luo and Yi Zhang /
Cerebral Cortex
Nazi Ravensbrück camp: How ordinary women became SS torturers
Damien McGuinness /
BBC
"Healthy, female workers between the ages of 20 and 40 wanted for a military site," reads the job advertisement from a 1944 German newspaper. Good wages and free board, accommodation and clothing are promised.
ShantyTok, or Sea Shanty TikTok if we're going to be formal about it, is exactly what it advertises on the label: a subset of TikTok culture devoted to the performance of sea shanties. In shanties, we find something both extremely manly and subversively tender. In other words, the perfect expression of masculinity for 2021.