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The Morning: Trump’s Tylenol claims – The New York Times (Excerpt)
At the White House yesterday. Tierney L. Cross/The New York Times By Tom Wright-Piersanti, I’m an editor on The Morning. Bad medicine The scene at the White House yesterday evoked the early days of the Covid pandemic: President Trump, standing at a lectern, offered Americans medical advice that contradicted scientific research. This time, though, the subject…
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Teaching Resources for Women’s History Month
Teaching Resources for Women’s History Month March 18, 2025Posted by: Colleen Smith Looking for resources and teaching ideas for Women’s History Month? Check out these blog posts, classroom materials, and resources from the Library. You’ll find ideas that can support teaching and learning in different subjects (Science/STEM, Social Studies, English Language Arts) and across grade…
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Sweden’s ‘soft girl’ trend that celebrates women quitting work
Sweden has a reputation for strong gender equality, but some young women are giving up their jobs. Source: Sweden’s ‘soft girl’ trend that celebrates women quitting work
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Meet the Woman Who Supervised the Computations That Proved an Atomic Bomb Would Work
Naomi Livesay worked on computations that formed the mathematical basis for implosion simulations. Despite her crucial role on the project, she is rarely mentioned as more than a footnote—until now By Katie Hafner, The Lost Women of Science Initiative on August 3, 2023 Listen to the podcast: https://beta.prx.org/stories/484826 Nic Lewis: She was walking past where Oppenheimer was…
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Like many men, I had few close friends. So I began a friendship quest.
My month-long social experiment was both challenging and gratifying Perspective by Leonard Felson, July 28, 2023 at 7:00 a.m. EDT Out of the blue last fall, an acquaintance emailed me. “I want to start jogging, but I need someone to run with,” he wrote. I hadn’t run in years, but the possibility that jogging might…
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Karen Gurney: The truth about faking orgasms | TED Talk
By Karen Gurney • TEDxLondonWomen Whose pleasure is prioritized during sex, and why? Psychosexologist Karen Gurney explains how a lack of equal pleasure in the bedroom actually reflects broader gender inequality in society — and asks you to reconsider what dynamics are at play, even behind closed doors. Source: Karen Gurney: The truth about faking…
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How to Get Men to Share the Mental Load – The Atlantic
In many households, men think like helpers and women think like managers. A gender expert’s new book suggests ways for couples to escape that dynamic. By Joe Pinsker, June 28, 2022 This article was featured in One Story to Read Today, a newsletter in which our editors recommend a single must-read from The Atlantic, Monday…
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After the Year of No Bras, Things Are Looking Up | Vanity Fair
When the shutdown left us stranded at home, some women clamored for a tangible sense of freedom. A year later, one writer reassesses the bra with help from an O.G. expert, an Instagram-savvy start-up, and Seinfeld. By Laura Regensdorf, March 10, 2021 It took me 351 days to take off my shirt for a stranger…
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Biden says women dropping out of workforce, closed schools are “national emergency”
The president said in an exclusive interview with CBS News that the Trump administration’s handling of the COVID crisis was “even more dire than we thought.” Linton, Caroline. “Biden Says Women Dropping out of Workforce, Closed Schools Are ‘National Emergency.’” CBS News, CBS Interactive, 7 Feb. 2021, http://www.cbsnews.com/news/biden-covid-women-workforce/. Source: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/biden-covid-women-workforce/
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Votes for women – The British Library
Explore the campaign for women’s suffrage in the UK “In 1918 the Representation of the People Act granted some women the right to vote in parliamentary elections, and the Equal Franchise Act of 1928 gave men and women equal voting rights for the first time. Explore short articles and examine scrapbooks, political pamphlets, photographs and…
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Defiant. Bold. Risk Takers. – Britannica Presents 100 Women Trailblazers
Britannica Presents 100 Women Trailblazers Defiant. Bold. Risk Takers. From a teenager who won a war to the “Mother of… Source: Defiant. Bold. Risk Takers. – Britannica Presents 100 Women Trailblazers
