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Last month, I listened to my former colleagues on Slate’s “Political Gabfest” podcast discuss Nikki Haley after she declared her run for president. John Dickerson, also of CBS News, explained that in a pre-Donald Trump…
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A new analysis of media mentions shows male leaders get to be “strong” and “innovative” while women in similar positions are described as “young.”
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Women who break the glass ceiling in politics are often depicted as disrupting the long-standing patriarchal structures that have traditionally kept women away from the public eye. The stereotypical “ideal” politician is usually based on…
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International Women’s Day and Equal Pay Day resurface topics about the inequality between men and women in the workplace, how the mental load is not equally distributed and how little women are still on boards…
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More women than ever hold political decision-making posts worldwide, but gender parity is still far off, according to the 2023 edition of the IPU-UN Women Map of Women in Politics. The map…
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Feminist movements are giving women a louder voice than ever, but those at the top of their game are routinely expected to deal with abuse and threats of violence.
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Four of the the world’s five highest-ranked universities will be led by a woman by the end of the summer. This is the highest-ever level of representation of women leaders at elite universities, a high…
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As a single Black woman in the House, the 36-year-old Illinois Democrat tries to balance who she is versus what she does
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The former speaker isn’t in charge of anything now but is doing exactly what she wants in what some call ‘Pelosi 3.0’