Jessica Mendoza Makes Baseball History, Prompting Sexist Backlash

Jessica Mendoza made baseball history on Tuesday night when she became the first woman to call a nationally televised MLB playoff game.
The ESPN analyst joined John Kruk and Dan Shulman in the booth at Yankee Stadium to provide color commentary on the Houston Astros’ 3-0 victory over the New ...

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America Has Finally Put A Woman At The Top Of The Ticket

PHILADELPHIA ― In 1968, Hillary Clinton, known at the time as Hillary Rodham, was taking in the excitement of the Republican National Convention in Miami. The young Republican had jumped at the chance to volunteer for Nelson Rockefeller’s last-minute effort to take the nomination from Richa...

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Charu Sharma: Going Against the Flow: Purva Gupta, Founder of Lilyapp

Purva Gupta is the Founder of Lily. Lily helps women discover & buy clothes according to their emotions and perceptions about their own body. Purva’s team has built the industry’s first algorithm that uses advanced machine learning to match emotions, preferences, and...

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Maj. Gen. (Ret.) Paul Eaton: We Need More Women in the Military

The question of allowing women to compete to serve alongside men in all military occupational specialties, in all branches, including our special operating forces, is the focus of Congressional hearings today. From my perspective as a former commander of Iraqi forces development in Iraq, I...

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Can Dove Change The Way Women Tweet About Beauty And Body Image?

Dove is working with Twitter to make the social platform a more hospitable place for women.


They’ve teamed up to launch #SpeakBeautiful, a campaign encouraging women to be more positive when tweeting about beauty and body image.


This announcement comes just weeks after Twitter...

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The Imperfect But Important Feminism Of Cookie Lyon

When “Empire” premiered earlier this year, the general consensus among fans and critics was that Taraji P. Henson’s performance as Cookie Lyon was easily the best part of the show. Cookie had the flyest outfits, the most memorable moments, and the best one-liners:...

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Harvey Stein: Small-d Democracy At Israel"s Western Wall

Rocks, bottles, eggs, curses were thrown. It happened again yesterday at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, where I live. A group of 300 or so women came to pray for Rosh Chodesh, the Jewish holiday (often especially celebrated by women) of the New Moon. They were affiliated with Women of the...

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