By Jessica Zucker — 2021
For women like me who lose our nipples to breast cancer, learning to love our changed bodies can be a journey.
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Evidence shows that women are less self-assured than men—and that to succeed, confidence matters as much as competence. Here's why, and what to do about it.
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Feminism, when you look at it as Gloria Steinem does, as the recognition of the full humanity and full equality of both men and women, is peace work
With her play and her talk, did the soccer star inspire us to redefine the meaning of sports? She tried.
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.
We’re exploring what it means to be queer and have a body, with essays about the ways our bodies are legislated and discriminated against, the strategies we’ve used to find belonging in them, and how we’re breaking down the stereotypes, preconceptions, and fetishization that many of us endure.
Body image is particularly important to discuss in the context of the LGBTQIA+ community, due to the prevalence of eating disorders and similar issues that disproportionately impact those who identify as LGBTQIA+.
Writing in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, Dr. Felicia H. Stewart and Dr. James Trussell have estimated that there are twenty-five thousand rape-related pregnancies each year in the United States.
“Inflection Point” talks to Gloria Steinem and Favianna Rodriguez about feminism and reproductive justice.
“I’m Gloria Steinem, and I wish I were in every one of your classrooms,” Steinem said by way of introducing herself to the group, whose members sat at tables arranged in an egalitarian square shape in the society’s imposing library.
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.