If you thought the U.S. Women’s Soccer Team was going to stay quiet about recent outrageous comments by U.S. Soccer regarding their equal pay lawsuit, you don’t know this USWNT. In case you missed it, earlier this week court filings revealed some of the arguments U.S. Soccer (the team’s employer) is making as part of…
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Last summer when the U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team won the World Cup (their fourth) in France, the stadium erupted into chants of “Equal pay!” Despite the women’s team’s total dominance, they’re paid less than their male counterparts, an issue that came to a head in March 2019 when the players sued U.S. Soccer for…
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The weekend is best time to fall into a leisurely online shopping hole with little-to-no shame. But this Sunday isn’t just any old Sunday. It’s International Women’s Day 2020—a day dedicated to celebrating the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women worldwide. International Women’s Day was recognized for the first time in 1911—and now,…
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In 2018, the marches were smaller, which was to be expected—it’s almost impossible to recreate a historic event. In 2019, discord among the national leadership of the march and serious accusations of anti-Semitism against some of its leaders fractured and fizzled the momentum. (Since then, the original leadership has been almost completely replaced with a…
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I’ve reached the point in my life when trends from my childhood have started resurfacing. As a preschooler in the early ’90s I remember being stuffed into turtlenecks, which were back after peaking in the ’70s, with help from The Brady Bunch. And while I hated turtlenecks a few decades ago, I can’t get enough…
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It should come as a shock to no one that women have body hair. But thanks to celebrities on the red carpet and more authentic advertising, body hair is becoming less taboo day by day. Still, while there are certain kinds of body hair that have been deemed “acceptable,” like a fluffy tuft of armpit…
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