It’s like a retirement account, but for maternity leave
Fewer than half of the workers in the United States can take paid time off to care for a new baby. The rest either find a way to make it...
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Under pressure, Wall Street Journal pledges to wipe out its race and gender pay gaps
In an email to staff on Thursday, Wall Street Journal editor Gerard Baker pledged to close the gender and race gaps in newsroom salaries, after union data revealed that white...
The real reason young women leave their jobs
New York magazine's Ann Friedman recently offered advice for employers who'd like to attract and retain top female talent: "Pay us enough that if you were to accidentally email the...
The remarkably different answers men and women give when asked who’s the smartest
Anthropologist Dan Grunspan was studying the habits of undergraduates when he noticed a persistent trend: Male students assumed their male classmates knew more about course material than female students -...
Creator of anti-Planned Parenthood videos faces felony charge
A Houston grand jury that was investigating accusations of criminal misconduct against Planned Parenthood on Monday instead indicted the leader of an anti-abortion group that recorded covert videos of the...
Startup bets up to $10,000 that your marriage will end badly
A new startup in Seattle will fund your wedding. Up to $10,000. Even the nacho cheese fondue fountain. The catch: If your union crumbles, at six months or 25 years,...
Why you should always buy the men’s version of almost anything
Radio Flyer sells a red scooter for boys and a pink scooter for girls. Both feature plastic handlebars, three wheels and a foot brake. Both weigh about five pounds. The...
Warren Buffett’s family secretly funded a birth control revolution
Bloomberg Businessweek just ran a fascinating piece about how Warren Buffett's family quietly donated hundreds of millions of dollars to the research and expansion of long-term, reversible birth control. The...
Everything that’s wrong with high heels
Earlier this week, a group of women in their 50s showed up at the Cannes Film Festival in France and were turned away. The reason? They weren't wearing high heels....
Millennial women are the slowest to have babies of any generation in U.S. history
Millennial women are the slowest to have kids of any generation in U.S. history. But don't blame increasingly popular fertility innovations like egg freezing. Career ambitions appear to play a...