Quote:National science academies illustrate the scale of the gender gap. In 2025, women represented on average 19% of members of these bodies. That is an improvement from the results of the two previous studies – 12% in 2015 and 16% in 2020. But it still falls well below their presence in the wider research community. And the global average masks sharp disparities: in some academies, women account for fewer than 5% of members; in others, they approach 40%.

Quote:The American Right’s extreme shift to radical woman-hating reflects how the conservative movement’s consistent anti-feminism undergirds its entire project. There can be no ideal conservative society without women upholding the system that keeps them down. However, the American Left and feminist movement have not had a solid response; there has been no broad positive vision of how life would be better in a world without patriarchy and misogyny for everyone. Overall, the Left has been far more disorganized than the Right, resulting in some useful ideological diversity but without the strength to sustain long-term progressive change.

Quote:What’s changed in these newer subcultures is that the protection half of the bargain has been dropped. The submission is still demanded, but the reciprocal obligation – that men owe women provision, loyalty, respect – has been replaced by open contempt.

Quote:Far-right Christian nationalist pastor Dale Partridge joined antisemitic pastors Calvin Robinson and Joel Webbon on the latter's program last week where he announced that, like Robinson, he too has a book coming out on Webbon's NXR imprint in the near future.

Partridge is a vocal advocate of instituting biblical patriarchy in America, so it was no surprise to learn that his book will be titled "19 Reasons to Repeal the 19th Amendment," which is what gave women the right to vote in 1920.

Quote:The problem? Brockman had included two women on the list, and his staunch supporter and biggest funder wanted them out.

“John, the old conferences did not care about diversity. I suggest you not either,” Jeffrey Epstein wrote in response to an email about the programming. “The women are all weak, and a distraction sorry.”

Quote:Writing on social media, the Walthamstow MP, Stella Creasy, said: “I long for the days when a midlife crisis for men like this meant getting a motorbike and a leather jacket, not trying to [get] elected so they could indulge their alt right fantasies about ensuring women were pregnant as soon as they were fertile and then didn’t go to university.”

Quote:The most revealing lesson of the Epstein files is not about one man’s crimes. It is about how long powerful institutions were willing to look away—and how much pressure it took to make them stop.

The more than 3 million newly released files about the investigation of Jeffrey Epstein tell a grim story about abuse of power. They are also a case study in institutional failure—and a testament to the women who refused to let the truth stay buried.

Beyond that they also deliver a clear leadership lesson—one women have learned repeatedly, and often painfully: We cannot assume institutions will protect us. We have to protect one another. And we have to force accountability when the system will not.

Quote:When women in their 50s or 60s are made visible, it is often on the condition that they look 10 or 20 years younger. As a result, women in their 60s are effectively invisible—present only if their age is erased. This narrows ambition, encourages self-censorship, and makes later-life leadership or reinvention seem abnormal rather than expected. It quietly redistributes power away from aging women by making long careers harder to imagine, claim, and inhabit.

Quote:What most people don’t know is that sexist homes, workplaces and communities also affect the physical health of girls and women. And as new research shows, these patterns don’t stop at home or work — they extend into religious congregations, where gender hierarchy can directly shape women’s health.

Quote:The job market is not great right now. Hiring has slowed. Artificial intelligence is replacing some knowledge workers. But Black women have been hit especially hard. The unemployment rate for Black women rose significantly from the start of 2025 to December, where it stood at 7.8 percent. That pattern of dramatic job loss was not seen for other groups.

“You don’t see that same loss with Black men, you don’t see that same loss with other groups of women,” said Valerie Wilson, a labor economist and director of the program on race, ethnicity and the economy at the Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning think tank. “It was a sharp and unique decline in employment for Black women.”

Quote:The House speaker isn’t just a sexist boss. As a party leader and as a policy maker, he has systematically made life harder and more expensive for all women.

Quote:This is, admittedly, not a terribly sexy topic. But a growing body of research suggests that whether a mom can hang on to her job comes down to how long it takes her to get there. Notably, the crucial role that travel time plays in shaping maternal employment has been identified not only in the United States but also in countries with far more robust family policies and social safety nets. Commutes also affect women up and down the socioeconomic scale (though in different ways).

The negative influence of the commute is so pronounced that it’s hard to imagine making the economy work for moms without acknowledging its impact. And the solution to the commute penalty may be as daunting as it is simple: To help moms work outside the home, society needs to make it easier for them to work near home.

Quote:In an unexpected move, most of the original designs for the “America 250” coins that were approved by two official committees in 2024 were abandoned and replaced. Most notably, the Black Abolition, Women’s Suffrage and Civil Rights quarters were replaced with quarters that instead commemorate the Mayflower Compact, Revolutionary War and the Gettysburg Address.

thecooliestone I'm noticing a big push recently in my district to save the boys. There are four different mentorship programs for the boys. Every male teacher gets to do whatever they want, with no expectations, because we need men to mentor the boys. Coaches are always teacher of the year because they mentor the boys.

I pointed out that we'd had several middle school girls end up pregnant last year, and could we get some real mentorship for them too. Word for word my principal replied "Well the girls will be alright in the end. They usually are. It's the boys who really need us."

I watch teachers fawn over boys doing the bare minimum while girls are doing twice as much on the daily. Boys who are ruining education for everyone are given a single day of ISS under the table, while a girl who does anything out of line gets 3 days of documented suspension. I understand that boys are falling behind in aggregate, but it really feels like a lot of female admin have sons and just assume that girls will figure themselves out while we need to baby the boys.