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‘Kind of Awkward’: Doctors Find Themselves on a First-Name Basis
While many physicians may avoid discussing the subject, a study showed that who gets addressed with the honorific “Dr.” may depend on gender, degree and specialty.
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Where have all the centrists gone? Rep. Stephanie Murphy has an idea
Once a rising Democratic Party star, Rep. Stephanie Murphy shocked the political world when she announced her retirement last December. She’s leaving to spend more time with her family. No, really.
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How Emmett Till’s mother defied threats to her life and fought for justice
Twenty-four days after her son’s swollen body was found in the Tallahatchie River, tied to a cotton-gin fan and bound in barbed wire, Mamie Elizabeth Till-Mobley made up her mind to travel deep into the…
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Initiative wants to elevate more women to education leadership roles
Although women are the backbone of America’s public schools – they hold more than 75 percent of all teaching jobs as well as most school-level administration positions like principal and assistant principal — nearly 80…
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Women Leaders Emerge in Politics, But What About Academia, Business?
From the historic election of Boston Mayor Michelle Wu to the incredible success of women in the recent primaries for statewide offices, Massachusetts’ voters have delivered a clear message: Women have fully arrived as accepted…
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Meet the Tough Women Leaders Taking on Vladimir Putin
It’s striking, the large number of brave women who are leading the protests against Iran’s violent and vicious theocratic regime. It’s likewise notable that young women lead the Ukrainian organization just awarded the Nobel Peace…
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Why You Can’t Find Child Care: 100,000 Workers Are Missing
Where did they go? To better-paying jobs stocking shelves, cleaning offices or doing anything that pays more than $15 an hour.
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How To Measure the Impact of #MeToo?
Last spring, the fate of an entire global movement was decided in a single Virginia courtroom. Or so the story went. The actors and ex-spouses Amber Heard and Johnny Depp were dueling over defamation charges.
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3 Negotiation Myths Still Harming Women’s Careers
We work with professional women all the time on their career negotiations: training them, advising their employers, and studying their successes and pitfalls. One of us (Kathryn) is a negotiation coach and trainer and the…
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Nicole Mann becomes first Native American woman in space on Crew-5 mission
Nicole Mann has become the first Native American woman in space as she lifted off in command of a flight to the International Space Station on Wednesday that also included the first Russian to join a US space…