10+ Best Articles on Women

A tribute to overlooked innovators, good troublemakers, and remarkable women of the past, present, and future

Male loneliness is not a woman's problem to solve

According to women support network Chief, more than a third of women leaders considered resigning last year.

Females, on average, are better than males at putting themselves in others' shoes and imagining what the other person is thinking or feeling, suggests a new study of over 300,000 people in 57…

«putting ourselves in other people's shoes, to imagine another person's thoughts and feelings. This is known as "»

The authors, executive coaches for women leaders, wanted to understand why some women are able to sustain and maintain career momentum, despite the systemic, structural problems women — and especially…

When women fail to achieve career goals, leaders are prone to attribute it to a lack of self-confidence. And when women demonstrate high levels of confidence through behaviors, such as being…

«confidence is a highly gendered word aimed at and adopted by both women and men to explain away the slower progression of women at work.»

Writing in The Atlantic, Helen Lewis details the ways that women face outsized consequences in a pandemic and what governments could do about it. As she notes, William Shakespeare wrote King Lear and Isaac Newton’s work flourished during the Great Plague of London, but they weren’t sheltering in place with children. Lewis offers telling anecdotal and statistical evidence that during the coronavirus pandemic women are likely to shoulder the lion’s share of child care and domestic work and are more likely to lose or give up their jobs, all while governments pay scant attention to their thoughts or needs.

«“As a collective academic group, we knew there would be an outbreak that came out of China, that shows you how globalization spreads disease, that’s going to paralyze financial systems, and there was no pot of money ready to go, no governance plan … We knew all this, and they didn't listen. So why would they listen to something about women?”»

The movement young women in Iran are leading is educated, liberal, secular, raised on higher expectations, and desperate for normality

A visual essay about the (mis)representation of women in the news

This is the list of 100 women from BBC 100 Women for 2022

From insurance payments to courtroom sentencing, AI makes increasingly complex decisions about our lives. And our belief that data is neutral allows algorithms to get away with murder. The fight back…

At the height of #MeToo movement, the message of a US training seminar was "fix the women."

How we became suckers for the hard labor of self-optimization. By Jia Tolentino