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Join UsMen Are Less Religious in Countries With More Gender Equality, Shows Study
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Proceedings of the Royal Society
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Men are less religious in more gender-equal countries
What Brittney Griner’s detention in Russia tells us about basketball’s gender pay gap
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NPR
The gender pay gap in America is nothing new. In 2020, annual earnings for women in the U.S. were just 82.3% of what men earned. But in the WNBA, the disparity is especially acute.
Busy mothers did less breastfeeding in 19th century Netherlands
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PLOS One
Bhaba Goswami, one of the organizers, said they have been holding men’s version of the event for over three decades and called the female contest a major breakthrough in the state’s sports history.
The Top Richest Women In The World 2022
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Forbes
There aren’t many women billionaires, but the 10 richest are worth $401 billion. The majority of ultra-rich women—226 of 327 as identifed by Forbes— inherited their wealth, including the world’s three richest women: L'Oréal heiress Francoise Bettencourt Meyers, Walmart heiress Alice Walton and Julia Klinea Koch, who inherited a stake in Koch Industries when her husband, David Koch, died in 2019.