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Here's why '9 months of pregnancy' is a vexing myth
When my wife became pregnant with our first child, I believed women were supposed to carry a baby for nine months before giving birth.But I soon learned this was a myth.No matter how you estimate the...
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Sex slavery is thriving on social media apps
The members of the United Nations Security Council hear terrible stories from conflict zones with alarming frequency. So it takes a truly horrific tale to bring them to tears.Yet as officials in the...
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Something is missing from the hedge fund industry
In 2015, Mallory Downing was hustling for a hedge fund job.Like many of her peers at Columbia Business School in New York, she sent out hundreds of résumés. She met with more than 100 people in...
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Women have a surprising role in ISIS networks
Late last week, three women were arrested in Paris for attempting to detonate a car bomb outside Notre Dame cathedral.“If at first it appeared that women were confined to family and domestic chores by...
View ArticleThis artist compiled over 100 photos to find each culture’s definition of beauty
Photographer and photojournalist Natalia Ivanova has begun an ambitious project she calls "The Ethnic Origins of Beauty", or Les origines de la beauté. She seeks out the ideal natural beauty that...
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The gender pay gap is the highest for students from elite colleges
The gender pay gap between women and men is the largest for students who graduated from elite colleges, according to a study released by the Center for American Progress, a progressive think tank based...
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Obama is approving hardly any clemency requests from the fastest-growing...
President Obama has commuted the sentences of 673 prisoners since taking office, but only about 50 of them have been women.With about four months to go before Obama's term ends, time is running out to...
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Babies cry in the womb and 18 other surprising facts I learned when I became...
First came the awe and elation at my wife's pregnancy. We were finally starting a family!In the next moment, an "Oh s--t!"panic sunk in.To counter the fear of becoming new parents we both read. And...
View ArticleWhy men’s and women’s shirts button on opposite sides
Here are a few theories to explain why men’s and women’s shirts button on different sides.Follow BI Video: On TwitterJoin the conversation about this story »
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White House staffers started using this clever tactic to put an end to...
Imagine you're pitching an idea, only to be cut off by someone else, who then essentially pitches the same idea — and gets all the credit for it.For many women, this isn't such a farfetched scenario....
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SEAT made a car for women that has eyeliner-shaped headlights
The car manufacturer SEAT has teamed up with women's magazine Cosmopolitan to launch a car that is designed exclusively for modern women.The Mii car, which was unveiled at Cosmo's #FashFest event in...
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A meteorologist had the perfect response to a sexist letter from a viewer
Iowa meteorologist Jeriann Ritter is used to getting public feedback — that's part of her job. But a nasty, sexist letter she received in the mail this week was a bit more intense than usual. The...
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The moment one of the most powerful women in banking noticed how weird Wall...
Often it takes being outside the bubble to notice what is going on inside.That's how Sallie Krawcheck — a former executive at Bank of America, Citi and other Wall Street banks — realized how strange...
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A week in Los Angeles on a $75,000 budget
Welcome to Money Diaries, where we're tackling what might be the last taboo facing modern working women: money. We're asking millennial women how they spend their hard-earned money during a seven-day...
View Article'Is this the president we want for our daughters?': Clinton's new ad is a...
A new campaign ad from Hillary Clinton compiles Donald Trump's insults against women. Follow BI Video: On TwitterJoin the conversation about this story »
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These portraits show brave women embracing the hidden beauty of their scars
From a distance, the woman in these photos seem like ordinary, beautiful models. But a closer look reveals they're bravely baring imperfections and scars that many of us would feel pressured to...
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27 million voters are up for grabs in the upcoming election
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - When Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton face off in their first presidential debate together on Monday, they will have their best chance yet to win over the roughly 27 million...
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Women aren't paid less because they don't ask — it's because they're disliked...
Perhaps the most straightforward and effective strategy for getting what you want is to simply ask for it — that is, unless you're a woman.Then things get more complicated.As the common convention...
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These amazing photos show how American women took over the workforce during...
"We can do it!"That's the slogan that appeared alongside fictional icon "Rosie the Riveter" during the famous WWII-era advertising campaign targeted toward American women on the home front."Rosie" was...
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Women are rarely picked to be CEO, and it's not because they're all dropping...
Women are rarely picked to be CEO.And it's not because they're all dropping out to have babies, as some might tell you.The reason boils down something we've heard so many times before but that...
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