When women suffer from sexism, so too does the entire economy. That’s the crux of a new paper by economists (pdf) David Cuberes (Clark University) and Marc Teignier (Universitat de Barcelona), which quantifies the economic loss caused by the limited involvement of women in professional fields, especially among entrepreneurs and CEOs.
Growing up and getting older can both be terrifying in their own right. The quest for advice on how to do both is never-ending.
For many teenagers, winning a Nobel Peace Prize at the age of 16 might offer some license to coast through the rest of school—but most teenagers are not the young Pakistani education activist Malala Yousafzai. For her, being the youngest person ever to win the world’s most prestigious award didn’t overshadow the importance of studying for her school-leaving exams.
Although it’s probably better to refrain from searching the recently hacked database of the extramarital affairs dating site Ashley Madison for your colleagues, the data dump of 30 million users in aggregate is hard to resist. After all, it’s a snapshot of the extramarital habits (actual, or desired) of people around the world.
There was a time when bisexuality was not accepted as a thing. Since then, progressive thinkers have championed more than just a halfway point, arguing that sexuality runs along a spectrum, with many stages in between two poles. For British youngsters between the ages of 18 and 24, that kind of thinking is already old hat, according to a new study conducted by YouGov (pdf) of roughly 1,800 young and adult Brits. The respondents were asked to position themselves from 0 (completely heterosexual) to 6 (completely homosexual) on a scale developed in 1940 by American sexologist Alfred Kinsey.
For many women, the mere mention of teenage years brings up a whirlpool of memories, so many of them physical. Periods, breasts, body hair, pimples, body odor. Pleasure. The upsetting discovery that you are no longer a child but a quasi-woman whose shape you’re unprepared for.
When the editorial team of French satiric magazine Charlie Hebdo was massacred by gunmen in Paris on on Jan. 7, the media offered incessant coverage of the aftermath. Two days later, gunmen Saïd and Chérif Kouachi arrived in a printing facility outside Paris, and took the owner hostage.
Raffi Freedman-Gurspan, a transgender woman of color, is the White House’s newest employee. And while the Obama administration has several transgender staffers, she is the first to work directly for the president.
Male feminist allies are precious and necessary. Sure, women could carry the torch alone, but as many, including the United Nation’s HeForShe movement argue, the sooner men get on board, the faster we’ll get to real equality.
Amazon can change lives. Nearly anything you need can arrive at your doorstep in as little as a few minutes to a few days.
On Aug. 12, Chelsea Manning, the US soldier detained in the disciplinary military barracks at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas for leaking thousands of classified documents to WikiLeaks, was been threatened with solitary confinement. Manning is facing indefinite solitary confinement for possessing expired toothpaste, dropping food on the floor, and allegedly having a copy of Vanity Fair as well as one of Cosmopolitan featuring her own interview.
Good internships can launch great careers, so it’s easy to imagine the excitement David Hyde, a 22-year-old from New Zealand, must have felt when he got accepted as an intern for the United Nations. Too bad the internship was unpaid and based in Geneva, one of the world’s most expensive cities.
Are you the kind of person that keeps a tidy inbox? Or do you dog-ear pages of your books? Sometimes, these small differences can tell a lot about a person.
Montreal-based PornHub, reportedly the largest porn site in the world, has launched a new campaign for its premium HD service. In the commercials, characters compare the service to everyday things, and bring the site up in inappropriate situations.
Kim Kardashian is pregnant with her second child, and in her typical fashion she has been sharing updates about her condition through social media. Last month, the reality television star posted a picture of herself holding a bottle of Diclegis, a medication used to treat morning sickness:
Russian authorities may be fretting about the physical dangers of people taking selfies, but communists in the country are all for them—or at least the ones that include Vladimir Ilyich Lenin.
With the largest Ebola epidemic in history on its way out and an effective vaccine hopefully within reach, it can be hard to remember that the struggle isn’t over for its survivors.
On August 7, talking to CNN about the recent Republican debate on Fox News, candidate Donald Trump said of debate moderator Megyn Kelly (who pressed him about sexist comments he had made in the past), that “you could see there was blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her wherever.”
Pat yourself on the back, humanity: It looks like the internet is—finally—done with “LOL” (the acronym for ”laughing out loud”) as a way to indicate laughter.
In 2011, two Swiss men who lived in the US registered their partnership. Two months later, they had a child through a surrogate mother in California, and according to the law were both recognized as fathers of the baby. But once back in Switzerland in 2014, despite an initial acknowledgment of their status, the federal court ruled against the status they acquired in the US.
Great angles, flattering filters, fun locations. Everything is (always and only) exciting, interesting, better if it’s enviable. Most of us quietly obey the rules of life on social media, producing posts that show everyday life as anything but ordinary.
During the soccer World Cup last year, the Italian team might not have been the best, but it arguably was the best dressed. With Dolce & Gabbana three-piece suits, the Italians looked like something straight out of a fashion shoot—in a good way.
Rome is rotting.
A fire is burning in the pine grove adjacent to Rome’s Leonardo Da Vinci airport in Fiumicino, for the third time in three months. According to the reports (link in Italian), the flames developed a little before 2pm (local time) and have yet to be tamed by fire fighters. All departures and arrivals to the terminal have been suspended as the fire—the origin of which isn’t yet clear—has spread because of strong wind.
