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At Cornell, hundreds of sex assaults, few expelled | Exclusive

We Surveyed 634 Women Who Work in Tech. They Let Loose

Executives happily automating their days with AI. New hires confronting bro culture. Women in tech have a lot to say—and they told it all to WIRED.

Research questions piano’s one-size-fits-all keyboard

Only 13 percent of women can comfortably span an octave on a standard piano. Few thought to ask whether the piano was the problem.

Why women’s laughter has long been treated as a threat | Psyche Ideas

Traditional patriarchy has always told women not to laugh. Today, female laughter still disturbs a male-dominated world

The Cut

What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now

As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.

Silicon Canals

When researchers examined return-to-office mandates across S&P 500 companies, they found no significant improvement in financial performance or firm value, but a clear fall in employee satisfaction — making the policy’s measurable human cost easier to fin

A study of 137 S&P 500 mandate firms found no significant financial lift, while Glassdoor ratings of satisfaction, work-life balance, leadership and culture declined.

Data Reveals An Infuriating Reason Women Over 40 Are Held Back At Work

A recent study exposes how insidious age discrimination is — and it should make you mad.

Gallup.com

Women's Healthcare Barriers Extend Into Work and Family Life

Half of U.S. women report a breakdown in their healthcare. New Gallup-Pivotal research links those experiences to limits on work, family and community life.

AI is more likely than humans to form biases when hiring

AI doesn’t just learn stereotypes from its training. It can cook up new ones, too.

Gender equality woefully off track, new UN report reveals

At the current rate of progress, gender equality would take 171 years to achieve, a new UN report finds as institutions built to advance gains are being defunded and demobilised.

bbc.com

The invisible price of travelling safely as a woman

Women-only rooms are in high demand – and sometimes cost more. What does that tell us about the price of feeling safe?

Silicon Canals

Sociologist Arlie Hochschild coined the term 'emotional labor' in 1983 to describe flight attendants — four decades on, the same unpaid work has migrated into friendships, families and Slack channels - Silicon Canals

Arlie Hochschild's 1983 concept described the paid smile in an airline cabin. Four decades later, the same unpaid work runs through friendships, families and Slack channels — and the people carrying it are the last to notice they're working.

Literary Hub

Penelope Speaks: Rebecca Solnit on the Western Literary Tradition of Silencing Women

The following first appeared via Rebecca Solnit’s Meditations in an Emergency. Last weekend, the film The Odyssey was released and the Tate brothers were arrested in Florida at the behest of the Br…

Lululemon's new CEO inherits a mess that looks like the one she left at Nike | Fortune

She faces an uphill climb in recapturing the magic that once made the leggings-maker a cultural phenomenon.

Visual Capitalist

Mapped: The Best Countries for Women in 2026

From Denmark to Afghanistan, discover the best and worst countries for women in the 2026 Women, Peace and Security Index.

Science of Money

It's not being a woman that hurts your promotion odds. It's part-time work and caregiving

A study of 1,373 German employers found that gender itself barely affected promotion decisions. What dragged candidates down was working part-time and having caregiving duties, penalties that fall hardest on women.

This factory was severely short on workers. Then it offered flexible work

A GE Appliances plant in rural northwest Georgia was short hundreds of workers amid COVID-19. A flexible work option where some workers can sign up for shifts through an app has eased the pain.

Verifying Device

The Conversation

Better call mom: Schools still see mothers as the default parent to contact

When both parents appeared equally available, schools were 40% more likely to call students’ moms, rather than their dads.

PsyPost - Psychology News

Men who crave social power are more likely to endorse strict beauty norms for women

New research reveals that men who crave social power and hold traditional views on masculinity are significantly more likely to expect women to spend heavy time and money on their physical appearance.

AI may make you 'boring' at work, Columbia Business School professor says: How it can hurt your career

Using AI at work in the wrong ways could lead to "gradually falling behind and becoming complacent," said Sandra Matz, a professor at Columbia Business School.

Aide who had an affair with Gavin Newsom shares her side of the story

Pulling back from DEI increases legal risk — and costs organizations qualified women

Gender equity researcher Amy Diehl offers eight pillars for HR to keep in mind regarding diversity and inclusion at work.

PsyPost - Psychology News

The hidden business of the submissive internet "tradwife"

A new study dissects the internet "tradwife" trend, revealing how popular influencers use vintage aesthetics to sell a return to patriarchal gender roles. Behind the homemade bread, these creators are running lucrative digital marketing businesses.

There Are Many Things That Could Increase the Birth Rate. This Major One Is Usually Ignored.

Conservatives tend to blame women for declining fertility. They’re wrong.

Harvard Business Review

The Invisible Work Draining Your Best Employees

Most leaders assess workload through hours, deadlines, and output, but these measures overlook the mental load employees carry: the ongoing cognitive and emotional effort required to manage tasks, relationships, and coordination at work and at home. When these loads collide, they fragment attention, complicate prioritization, and create persistent exhaustion. The result is reduced focus, slower decision-making, and increased risk of burnout and attrition. Managing mental load is less about reduc

PBS News

Single women are outpacing single men in homeownership, but some face backlash

In the U.S., 20 million single women own homes, almost three million more than single men. Economics correspondent Paul Solman explores why women are deciding to buy and the unexpected fallout some face.

New York Post

Exclusive | Divorced, destitute and left for dead — the dark side of tradwife life after 35

Tradwives often become subservient subordinates whose sole purpose is to please their partner.

Amid nurse shortage, a university rolls out the welcome mat for men

Only about 1 in 8 nurses are men, but their share is growing. A strong job market for nurses and sustained efforts to recruit men into the field have made a difference, including in the South.

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Female ER physicians order more tests and admit more patients than male physicians,

A new UCLA Health study examining more than 1.5 million emergency department (ED) visits found that female physicians request more imaging and laboratory tests and admit more patients to the hospital than their male counterparts working alongside them. But the added testing was just as likely to uncover important findings, suggesting the additional care may have been clinically appropriate.