European countries’ attempts to get dads to take more paternity leave have had unintended consequences, and sparked debate about the fairest way to divide leave between mothers and fathers.

Since 2014, Catherine Cawood has been that rarest of TV unicorns: an ordinary, middle-aged woman written with such care that she becomes extraordinary. Sophie Gilbert on the third and final season of “Happy Valley”:

If the discipline is concerned with the nature of human existence, then a canon dominated by men isn’t just incomplete—it’s distorted.

In 2012, a team of population-health experts at the University of Illinois at Chicago found that white women who did not graduate from high school were dying about five years younger than such women had a generation before—at about 73 years instead of 78. Their white male counterparts were dying three years younger.

The work marriage is a strange response to our anxieties about mixed-gender friendships, heightened by the norms of a professional environment.

Pamela Anderson and Jennifer Coolidge are part of a generation of performers forcing the public to reckon with the way women’s stories have been told.

Plenty of modern parents want their kids to play with whatever they like. But in ad-world, dolls are for girls, and trucks are for boys.

When women in the profession face mistreatment, everyone suffers.

Efforts to ease women’s entry into the world of crypto slip can easily into pandering. In addition to “empowerment,” women-oriented NFT projects promise “financial independence,” echoing the pitch that MLMs have been making to women for decades.

A leading anthropologist suggests that protohumans became domesticated by killing off violent males.

“Girls, I know it has not been easy as I have tried to navigate the challenges of juggling my career and motherhood. And I fully admit that I did not always get the balance right. But I hope that you have seen that with hard work, determination, and love, it can be done … I love you so much.”