“Honestly I do not really care that I got beat up,” Shamblin, a senior at Newsome High School, said. “But what’s gonna happen when he’s trying to do this with another underage girl and no one’s there to say anything?”

Former police chief Jane Castor will be the mayor of Tampa, FL, becoming the city's first openly gay mayor and just the 5th out gay woman mayor of a major American city.

Women make up less than 20 percent of all general surgeons, the group says, and fewer than 5 percent of surgical program chairs. “Unless we encourage more women to pursue a career in surgery, we will have a shortage of surgeons in the future," Dr. Sharona Ross said.

The field of 12 that Diane Crump raced against was made largely of substitute riders: according to an article from the day after the race, only five men agreed to ride against her. Seven others used doctors’ appointments and other excuses to get out of racing. In other words, they let the woman ride, so the men took “sick.”

"I eventually realized that, even in an age of female fighter pilots and #MeToo, boys’ clothes are largely designed to be practical, while girls’ are designed to be pretty. Now when I shop for Lia, I hit the boys’ section first. It’s not just about avoiding skinned knees, but also the subtle and discouraging message that’s woven right into girls’ garments: you are dressed to decorate, not to do."

Supposedly the easiest acting path to winning an Academy Award is playing a hero, even flawed, or else a physically or mentally ill person. Not if you’re a woman. In fact, men are more than twice as likely to take home an Oscar for portraying those qualities.