Julie McClain Downey, director of state communications for Senator Cory Booker’s presidential campaign, settled into the couch in her Washington, DC apartment last June—holding her newborn daughter with her left hand, and scrolling through TweetDeck with her right. Technically, she was still on the 12-week, gender-blind paid leave available to all of the campaign’s full-time…
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Historians aren’t sure of the exact origin of aromatherapy, but the practice is believed to date back at least 6,000 years, when it was common among ancient Egyptians to dose themselves in fragranced oils to connect with the gods and cure ailments. While the majority of us no longer crush up plants and herbs to…
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For her 27th birthday this past May, Lucia Allain traveled to the border. A citizen now, she’d grown up undocumented in New York City, a Peruvian immigrant whose mother worked so many hours and spoke so little English that it fell to Allain to attend parent-teacher conferences for her little brother. Birthdays weren’t really a…
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Even women who have access to top tier stylists and salons say they’ve had similar experiences. Dana Oliver, beauty director at Yahoo Lifestyle, says she’s constantly searching for a salon that she can call “The One.” “There aren’t many stylists who are trained in caring for my thick, kinky coils, or even skilled at arming…
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In the 29 years that we’ve celebrated Women of the Year, our honorees have broken glass ceilings, shattered records, and redefined success on their own terms. This year we welcome eight new women into this sisterhood who, like the honorees before them, are using their chosen profession and inimitable spirit to push our culture forward.…
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Miley Cyrus has never been someone to shy away from controversy or speaking her mind. And the latest example of this comes from a recent Instagram Live that she did with her new boyfriend, Cody Simpson. In it, the singer joked that women “don’t have to be gay” because there are “good men out there.”…
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