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Don’t Heed the Haters: Albert Einstein’s Wonderful Letter of Support to Marie Curie in the Midst of Scandal

By Maria Popova

A master of beautiful consolatory letters and a champion of kindness as a central animating motive of life, Einstein wrote to Curie with wholehearted solidarity and support, encouraging her not to give any credence to the hateful commentaries in the press.

Read on www.brainpickings.org

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Serena Williams: How Black Women Can Close the Pay Gap

Black women are 37 cents behind men in the pay gap—in other words, for every dollar a man makes, black women make 63 cents.

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Serena Williams
2017
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‘We Have to Be Better’: Megan Rapinoe and the Year of Victory and Advocacy

With her play and her talk, did the soccer star inspire us to redefine the meaning of sports? She tried.

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Liz Robbins
2019
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Political Dispute Over Transgender Rights Focuses On Youth Sports

There was an impassioned debate in the South Dakota State Senate this week over a proposed bill that would restrict transgender female students from participating in female sports.

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Danielle Kurtzleben
2021
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The Fight for the Future of Transgender Athletes

A group of influential women’s sports advocates say their proposals are about fairness. But LGBT activists say their plans would endanger transgender rights — and transgender lives.

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Will Hobson
2021
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Each of America’s Big 5 Sports Currently Has an Out Gay Man in the Pros. That’s Never Happened

For the first time, pro baseball, basketball, football, hockey and soccer has an out gay male player under contract.

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Cyd Zeigler
2021
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No One Transitions to Win in Sports. Period.

Myth making, policy making and never the twain should meet.

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Karleigh Webb
2021
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Beth Moore Split Highlights Division in the Southern Baptist Convention

Moore is the latest prominent Southern Baptist to publicly leave the Southern Baptist Convention amid its struggles over race, gender and Trump’s legacy.

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Caroline Radnofsky and Suzanne Ciechalski
2021
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Why I’m Over Women’s ‘Empowerment’

It can’t be about “empowerment” any longer. To make real progress, it has to be about power—using and growing the power we women already have.

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Sallie Krawcheck
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There's Power in Numbers

When women found themselves “alone or nearly alone” in a sea of men, they came to be seen as “tokens” – a constantly scrutinized stand-in for all women, viewed by others in terms of their gender and gender stereotypes.

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Elizabeth C. Tippett
2019
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Woman Leads Muslim Prayer Service in New York

Almost nothing about the Friday prayer held yesterday in Morningside Heights in Manhattan was familiar to Samira Jaraba, a Palestinian immigrant who trekked alone on the subway from Brooklyn, cloaked in a cream headscarf, to see if the rumors were true.

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amina wadud
2005
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