Women are now leaving the workforce at nearly four times the rate of men. With so many women laid off, sidelined or stepping away to manage remote schooling or care for their families, men have to stand up as allies to ensure that gender equality in the workplace isn’t set back a generation.

The group members are predominantly baby boomers caring for husbands or parents with dementia or Parkinson’s, but there is also a millennial in the group and members of the Silent Generation (born from 1928-1945), as well as a “sandwiched caregiver,” who helps her mother who has Alzheimer’s and her son who has Down syndrome.

Nicknamed the “five little kings,” the men who ruled the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors for more than a century enjoyed massive power and the perks of a coveted job they kept for decades. Those days are over.

"Oceanography has always been such an old man thing, and it’s really cool now that we’re including more female scientists. It’s empowering, and I was really happy about that,” says the California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigation's chief scientist Angela Klemmedson.

"History reflects the fact that women have never had the numbers to make the Constitution change without getting men to back them up. Even today, with women in both houses of Congress at an all-time high, they represent just 23.2% of the House and 26% of the Senate. Congressmen can adopt an amendment while ignoring the will of every single female member."

“Staying home is a luxury,” said 44-year-old Sonia Rodriguez, who works six days a week cleaning houses and serving as a caregiver for a senior with Alzheimer’s disease. “If they quarantine us where are we going to get money?”

After a string of gruesome killings of women, feminist activists here began wondering: What if we all just disappeared? Mexico is about to find out. Women across the country are being urged to skip work next Monday, stay off the streets and purchase nothing for 24 hours. The national strike, which is being promoted as #UNDIASINMUJERES, or “a day without women,” is meant to deliver an economic punch to cast light on what activists describe as a crisis of violence.

These characters part of the long tradition of plucky heroines in YA adventures, except now they’re allowed to keep their cultural identities intact, not whitewashed. Where once Latina nerds or geeks were nonexistent on TV, they can now live as fully fledged characters, not just sidekicks or stereotypes.

Just 3.3% of the city’s 3,372 firefighters are female, according to the latest data prepared by the LAFD. That’s short of the 5% that Garcetti and the department had vowed to reach this year. But by other measures, the LAFD is making strides in changing an institution that’s struggled to overcome a legacy tainted by allegations of sexism and racism.

A Los Angeles Times analysis examining the first 15 characters listed in each of the “Star Wars” film credits has found that despite the visible shift to diversify the cast in the latest series, the movies have continued to allocate most of the dialogue to male characters.

Members of the Organización de Trabajadoras Sexuales, a sex workers group known as OTRAS that advocates for prostitutes’ rights, have faced opposition as they have traveled to campuses across Spain in recent weeks to make the case for a sex workers union. At times, students or other observers call the group members pimps — or lobbyists. Many consider them anti-feminist.

In one episode of his online talk show, Uygur ranked women on a scale of 1 to 10 on how likely men would be to let them perform oral sex on them. He also defended the Harvard University men’s soccer team in 2016 for ranking the sexual appeal of female students on a scale of 1 to 10 on a widely shared “scouting report,” including explicit descriptions of potential sex acts with the women.