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Politics
No, Female Mice Are Not More Erratic
A new study challenges a century-old assumption used to exclude female mice from scientific research because of their hormonal cycles.
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World
A Music Award Went Gender Neutral. It Ended Up With All-Male Nominees.
In 2022, the Brit Awards merged its top artist prizes to include male, female and nonbinary acts. This year, the…
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Politics
In Brazilian Caves, She Wields a Penislike Organ to Gather Sperm
Scientists studied the muscles that make a female-male role reversal possible in a group of insects.
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World
Senate Report Finds Widespread Sexual Abuse of Women in Federal Prisons
Federal Bureau of Prisons employees have abused female inmates in at least 19 of the 29 federal facilities that have…
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Politics
How Sexism Influenced Corporate Governance
Early in the 20th century, many owners of the iconic companies of the day were women. Before the 1929 stock…
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Politics
Ukrainian Women Fight for Their Own Liberation
KHARKIV, Ukraine — Ukraine is a traditional and sexist society caught in a grueling artillery war with Russia, so the…
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Arts
In a ‘Sea Change,’ Women of the Philharmonic Now Outnumber the Men
When the New York Philharmonic moved to Lincoln Center in 1962, its new hall had no women’s dressing rooms. That’s…
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