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Can the NFL's Rooney Rule survive the DEI backlash?
Andrea Hsu, NPR
Florida's attorney general says the NFL's Rooney Rule, which requires teams to interview minority candidates for top jobs, is discriminatory. Trump's EEOC has challenged such policies elsewhere.
May 15, 2026, 3:08 PM
The Trump Admin’s MomsDotGov Website Is ‘Gaslighting 101’
Danielle Han, Jezebel
“It’s all of a piece of disguising what’s really at stake in communicating to women about pregnancy,” Emily Martin, chief program officer at the National Women’s Law Center, told Jezebel.
May 13, 2026, 3:26 PM
MAGA wants more teen births. It won’t work
Amanda Marcotte, Salon
Teen birth rates are at historic lows — and young women want to keep it that way
Apr 20, 2026, 10:45 AM
Trump won’t touch the one thing that could fix fertility rates
Nicole Karlis, Salon
Conservatives says the "problem" is fewer teen pregnancies. But the solution is actually fixing childcare
Apr 18, 2026, 10:30 AM
10 Monday AM Reads
Barry Ritholtz, Ritholtz.com
My back-to-work morning train WFH reads: • Barron’s 100 Most Influential Women in U.S. Finance: Our annual list honors women helping their companies, clients, and country through volatile markets and challenging times. Meet this year’s 28 new additions. (Barr…
Mar 16, 2026, 10:30 AM
The powerful women of the West have betrayed feminism
RT
Instead of challenging male power, the high-ranking ladies attach themselves to it like tradwives Read Full Article at RT.com
Mar 8, 2026, 2:31 PM
On Int’l Women’s Day, the US needs an Equal Rights Amendment
H. Patricia Hynes, Juancole.com
A strong majority of Americans support reproductive rights and equal pay, and the ERA would establish in law 21<sup>st</sup> century equality
Mar 8, 2026, 5:06 AM
Woman With 2 Degrees Who Married at 32 & Had Kids at 34 Warns Women Not to Be Career-Driven
Lauren Tousignant, Jezebel
Barf Bag: Apparently, being a career-driven female in Manhattan becomes spiritually corrupt only after you’ve successfully leveraged it.
Dec 6, 2025, 8:45 AM
We Need More Women in Office—Even if They’re Terrible
Jill Filipovic, Slate Magazine
Marjorie Taylor Greene, Lauren Boebert, and Nancy Mace aren’t exactly feminist firebrands, but they didn’t need to be to defy Trump.
Nov 22, 2025, 10:45 AM
Nearly one-third of women worldwide faced partner or sexual violence: WHO
Al Jazeera Staff, Al Jazeera English
Despite stark findings, World Health Organization says violence against women and girls is 'a deeply neglected crisis'.
Nov 19, 2025, 7:05 PM
How a small Chicago nonprofit is resisting Trump's war on DEI
Andrea Hsu, NPR
Since 1981, Chicago Women in Trades has worked to promote equity by getting more women into the construction trades. Now the nonprofit faces a different challenge: Trump's efforts to erase DEI.
Nov 19, 2025, 10:00 AM
How women over 30 are rewriting the single mom narrative in America
Pallavi Gogoi, NPR
Forty percent of babies in the U.S. are born to unmarried mothers. Increasingly, those moms are over 30, at a time when teen pregnancy has fallen off a cliff and births are declining for younger women.
Nov 17, 2025, 10:00 AM
The forgotten women of quantum physics
Karmela Padavic-Callaghan, New Scientist
Physics has a reputation for being dominated by men, especially a century ago, as quantum physics was just being invented – but there have been so many women who helped shaped the field since its inception
Nov 14, 2025, 10:00 AM
More Young Women Than Ever Want to GTFO of the U.S.
Danielle Han, Jezebel
Where are we going, friends? I’ll pack my bags.
Nov 13, 2025, 4:06 PM
Conservative Woman Who Helped Gut Women’s Healthcare Declares Conservative Law Students the Real Feminists
Lauren Tousignant, Jezebel
“In truth, being a conservative woman in law school, particularly, takes a lot of courage and independence, and in many ways shows more feminism…” Justice Amy Coney Barrett said this week. Asteroid?
Nov 8, 2025, 11:17 AM
Trump Bulldozes Away a Century's Worth of Women’s Contributions to the White House
Danielle Han, Jezebel
“It’s sort of like, my worst fears realized, to be frank," a women's studies scholar at Ohio University told Jezebel of the East Wing demolition.
Oct 24, 2025, 4:51 PM
MAGA Christians Are Demanding Wives Stay Home — But There's 1 Big Problem
Brittany Wong, Buzzfeed
“Erika Kirk has 3 university degrees, she’s a businesswoman and ceo, she got married in her 30s (to a man 5 years younger than her), had kids in her mid 30s,...
Oct 11, 2025, 6:14 PM
8 TV And Movie Female Presidents To Distract You From Reality
Jamie Lerner, Thoughtcatalog.com
These women killed it as the leaders of the free world.
Aug 25, 2025, 6:00 PM
Abortion Pills That Give You Superpowers? Women’s Healthcare Is Now the Stuff of Fantasy Films
Alison Foreman, IndieWire
IndieWire spoke with three filmmakers about personal storytelling through genre, from a folk monster hungry for breast milk ("Feed") to vaginoplasty administered by a witch ("The Dysphoria") to a vigilante service worker stuck waiting tables mid-abortion ("Th…
Aug 15, 2025, 1:00 PM
Texas DA Who Charged Woman With Murder for Abortion Allegedly Paid for His Mistress’s Abortion
Susan Rinkunas, Jezebel
“Why would it be something you wouldn't consider criminal as to your own personal decision with your partner, but, as to Lizelle, that personal decision is now homicide?” the ACLU's Lauren Johnson told Jezebel.
Aug 14, 2025, 2:05 PM
We Asked Pete Hegseth if Women Should Have the Right to Vote. The Answer Was Unsettling.
Molly Olmstead, Slate Magazine
We really, really didn't expect this.
Aug 12, 2025, 4:41 PM
Colorado Says Yes To Junk Science
Danielle Han, Jezebel
Since 2007, Jezebel has been the Internet's most treasured source for everything celebrities, sex, and politics...with teeth.
Aug 5, 2025, 4:56 PM
Tapping The Ancient Wisdom Of Hospitality To Foster Inclusivity
Joe Holt, Contributor, Joe Holt, Contributor https://www.forbes.com/sites/josephholt/, Forbes
With DEI programs under attack, leaders can practice the virtue of hospitality as a safe and effective tool for promoting inclusivity.
Jul 27, 2025, 4:43 PM
She's trying to open a birth center near a maternity desert. It's not easy
Katia Riddle, NPR
When Katie Chubb was pregnant she wanted to have her baby at a birth center, but there was no local option. Now she's trying to open one herself. She has community support, but not from the hospitals.
Jul 27, 2025, 11:00 AM