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"It’s time to stop saying disabled people are less qualified," @Lucy_Webster_ writes. "Evidence suggests that, far from making workplaces worse, disabled people make teams better." thepersistent.com/washington…
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Beyoncé's Grammy wins were extraordinary — and they still aren't enough, writes @JosieCox_NYC: thepersistent.com/beyonce-gr…
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Parents shouldn't have to shoulder the mental load of childrearing alone. And AI can provide some respite for the overburdened. Here are five ways to use ChatGPT to make parenting easier, according to @NewAmerica / @BetterLifeLab fellow Haley Swenson. thepersistent.com/how-to-use…
“It’s been our fate as women forever to have our work trivialized, to be pitted against one another, to be judged by and for our sexuality, to be narrowly-defined, and to be maligned for our life choices,” she writes. “Meanwhile, men will continue to fight wars.”
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The title “felt appropriate for a coming-of-age memoir,” but at the last minute, her publisher changed the name to Shutterbabe—”emphasis on babe”. Criticism was “bizarre”, she says, “owing at least in part, I believe, to the self-objectification of its title”.
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“Picture this,” writes Copaken. “I am 33 years old, about to become a published author… The manuscript and floppy disc have been carefully labeled Shuttergirl, a name we—I, along with my publisher and agent—had finally settled on.”
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Last Wednesday: @Newsweek reports that authorities in Pakistan had apprehended a key suspect in the gang rape of a female polio worker.
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Had you heard of Febb Burn? What other women have been written out of history but deserve to be household names?
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