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Women
After millennia of human existence, we’re still figuring out and talking constantly about one of our most fundamental behaviors – sex. Despite the sexual revolution of the 60s and 70s and the growth of sex positivity in recent decades, a lot of people still report having a lot of bad sex. The reasons for that are varied and multiple, but culture has a role to play, and we...
About two decades ago, NPR host Mary Louise Kelly had her first child and went down the extremely common yet commonly daunting life path of balancing a demanding career with a family. As a national security correspondent on assignment war zones, she missed family events and emergency phone calls from her kids’ school. As the daily weekday co-host of “All Things Considered,...
Right when women feel like they have it all figured out, many of them enter a stage of life in our society where they feel dismissed, ignored and cast out. The pressure is strong to try and hold onto youth as long as possible via whatever means necessary, and shame tends to accompany all of the available options. How can we learn to embrace the inevitability of aging a lit...
The reversal of Roe v. Wade would make it difficult or impossible for millions of people to obtain abortions, but would also open the doors to criminally prosecute people who seek or obtain an abortion. And in our technological age, that criminalization brings new, frightening opportunities for digital surveillance by law enforcement agencies or anti-abortion vigilantes. I...
Quick Take is a weekly dose of ideas and insights delivered in short form. Today’s episode features Bumble founder and CEO Whitney Wolfe Herd. Watch her full conversation from the Aspen Ideas Festival https://www.aspenideas.org/sessions/the-billion-dollar-bumble-that-changed-the-dating-game-forever Follow us on instagram.com/aspenideas Follow us on facebook.com/aspenide...
When she met him, Tanya Selvaratnam thought New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman was her perfect match. But as time went on, Schneiderman became controlling, mean, and manipulative. In her new book, Assume Nothing, Selvaratnam chronicles how domestic violence took away her voice, how she managed to get it back, and her decision to use it to help other women fi...
One-hundred years ago this month, women suffragists celebrated the passage of the 19th Amendment to the US Constitution. Since then, what strides have women made toward gender equality?
Social unrest and physical distancing are not making it easy to connect with other people.
Valerie Jarrett, a former senior advisor to the president, looks back on the Obama White House.
Who controls a woman’s body? Herself? Her church? Her community? Her government?
How the clothing industry can change to help the planet.
What if the effects of climate change were destroying your home?
Women in the media speak up about what needs to change in the wake of #MeToo.
Rebecca Blumenstein on gender, journalism, and protecting democracy through news.
Since 2016, we’ve watched women rack up unprecedented wins.
By trying to provide a perfect childhood, parents may be making it harder for their kids to grow up.
#MeToo exposed sexual harassment in the workplace, but what about the problem of gender inequality?
Historian Erica Armstrong Dunbar discusses her book "Never Caught."
US Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith says her true self comes out in her work.
Why do happily married couples cheat?