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More than two-thirds of American adults oppose constructing data centers for AI. 55 percent of women, compared to 43 percent of men, strongly oppose data centers.
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Keeping Score: Texas GOP Candidate Brandon Herrera’s Vile Attack on Mothers and Children; Rest in Power Gloria, Dolly, Robin Morgan, Annie Dillard and More
Ms. remembers Dolly Parton while tracking threats to abortion access, voting rights and other hard-won gains for women and democracy.
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September 23, 2026 at 5:30 PM
More than two-thirds of American adults oppose constructing data centers for AI. 55 percent of women, compared to 43 percent of men, strongly oppose data centers.
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In 2024, nearly 2,400 women were killed by men, according to the Violence Policy Center.
Of these, 86.9 percent knew their killer—nearly nine out of 10.
Of these, 86.9 percent knew their killer—nearly nine out of 10.
A Restraining Order Is Not Enough When an Abuser Has a Gun
Nearly 2,400 women were killed by men in 2024, according to a recent Violence Policy Center report. Nearly nine out of 10 knew their killer, and firearms were used in 63.4 percent of these homicides. ...
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September 23, 2026 at 3:44 PM
In 2024, nearly 2,400 women were killed by men, according to the Violence Policy Center.
Of these, 86.9 percent knew their killer—nearly nine out of 10.
Of these, 86.9 percent knew their killer—nearly nine out of 10.
As doctors stopped prescribing hormone replacement during menopause, an uptick in fatal UTIs began. Why did FDA warnings against estrogen persist for decades? #MsReads via @usatoday.com
Exclusive: FDA warnings persisted as UTIs turned deadly in menopause
Menopause increases the risk of UTIs which can lead to sepsis and death in older women. For years, the FDA discouraged the one drug that could help.
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September 23, 2026 at 12:30 AM
As doctors stopped prescribing hormone replacement during menopause, an uptick in fatal UTIs began. Why did FDA warnings against estrogen persist for decades? #MsReads via @usatoday.com
A record number of women have earned nominations for state legislative elections this year, and we can expect that women will grow their representation from its current level of 33.6 percent.
LaTosha Brown’s Case for America’s First Department of Democracy
LaTosha Brown makes the case for a Department of Democracy, alongside the latest stories on women’s representation in politics and beyond.
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September 22, 2026 at 10:30 PM
A record number of women have earned nominations for state legislative elections this year, and we can expect that women will grow their representation from its current level of 33.6 percent.
As healthcare increasingly relies on artificial intelligence, systems trained on decades of male-centered data risk carrying medicine’s gender biases into the future.
Decades of Male-Focused Medical Research Could Bias Healthcare AI
Many people will learn CPR using a flat-chested manikin. A 2024 study of 20 models of CPR manikins sold worldwide found that three-quarters were described as male or had no sex specified. Of the 20,…
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September 22, 2026 at 8:30 PM
As healthcare increasingly relies on artificial intelligence, systems trained on decades of male-centered data risk carrying medicine’s gender biases into the future.
Women made up 35 percent of those nominated for Emmy Awards in non-acting categories, matching the record high.
Women’s representation increased by 4 percentage points in producing, directing, writing and editing, but six categories remain where no women are nominated.
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Women’s representation increased by 4 percentage points in producing, directing, writing and editing, but six categories remain where no women are nominated.
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Keeping Score: Texas GOP Candidate Brandon Herrera’s Vile Attack on Mothers and Children; Rest in Power Gloria, Dolly, Robin Morgan, Annie Dillard and More
Ms. remembers Dolly Parton while tracking threats to abortion access, voting rights and other hard-won gains for women and democracy.
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September 22, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Women made up 35 percent of those nominated for Emmy Awards in non-acting categories, matching the record high.
Women’s representation increased by 4 percentage points in producing, directing, writing and editing, but six categories remain where no women are nominated.
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Women’s representation increased by 4 percentage points in producing, directing, writing and editing, but six categories remain where no women are nominated.
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With nearly 130 heads of state and government arriving for the U.N. General Assembly’s high-level week, advocates are urging governments to turn promises of global cooperation into protections for Afghan women and girls.
As World Leaders Gather at the U.N., the Push to Recognize Gender Apartheid Gains Ground
At the U.N. General Assembly’s high-level week, governments must turn promises of global cooperation into protections for Afghan women and girls.
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September 22, 2026 at 4:22 PM
With nearly 130 heads of state and government arriving for the U.N. General Assembly’s high-level week, advocates are urging governments to turn promises of global cooperation into protections for Afghan women and girls.
Among straight women, the prevalence of rape is 18.7 percent, but among bi women it soars to 46.1 percent.
The 'B' Is Silent: How Skepticism About Bisexuality Harms Women’s Health
Myths and stereotypes about bisexual women feed bi discrimination in the workplace, school and the healthcare industry
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September 21, 2026 at 11:30 PM
Among straight women, the prevalence of rape is 18.7 percent, but among bi women it soars to 46.1 percent.
The backlash obscures the media and porn industries that profit from sexualizing women, manufacturing insecurity and narrowing the choices available to women in the public eye.
Why Blaming Sydney Sweeney Misses the Point
If you follow the mainstream press and social media, you would assume that Sydney Sweeney is an amazingly powerful 29-year-old woman. With her new hypersexualized ad for Novig, she stands accused of…
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September 21, 2026 at 9:30 PM
The backlash obscures the media and porn industries that profit from sexualizing women, manufacturing insecurity and narrowing the choices available to women in the public eye.
In the Zambian districts where it operated, the five-year Saving Mothers, Giving Life initiative helped reduce the maternal mortality ratio by 41 percent (from 480 to 284 deaths per 100,000 live births) and in Uganda, by 44 percent.
Public Health Begins With Listening: Lessons From Zambia and Malawi on Reducing Maternal Mortality
In the Zambian districts where it operated, the five-year Saving Mothers, Giving Life initiative helped reduce the maternal mortality ratio by 41 percent. Its success relied not only on expanding…
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September 21, 2026 at 7:30 PM
In the Zambian districts where it operated, the five-year Saving Mothers, Giving Life initiative helped reduce the maternal mortality ratio by 41 percent (from 480 to 284 deaths per 100,000 live births) and in Uganda, by 44 percent.
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September 21, 2026 at 7:06 PM
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Why do powerful institutions and public figures continue to celebrate Brown, while the women he has harmed or allegedly harmed remain secondary to his fame and commercial success?
When Will Chris Brown's Reckoning Come?
Chris Brown recently announced he will be headlining a residency in Las Vegas. He has been accused of physical and sexual violence against women.
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September 21, 2026 at 6:48 PM
Why do powerful institutions and public figures continue to celebrate Brown, while the women he has harmed or allegedly harmed remain secondary to his fame and commercial success?
Almost half of voters in battleground states say a candidate supporting a national abortion ban is a total dealbreaker, and 80 percent say it’s important that lawmakers protect access to reproductive healthcare.
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Keeping Score: Texas GOP Candidate Brandon Herrera’s Vile Attack on Mothers and Children; Rest in Power Gloria, Dolly, Robin Morgan, Annie Dillard and More
Ms. remembers Dolly Parton while tracking threats to abortion access, voting rights and other hard-won gains for women and democracy.
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September 21, 2026 at 3:49 PM
Almost half of voters in battleground states say a candidate supporting a national abortion ban is a total dealbreaker, and 80 percent say it’s important that lawmakers protect access to reproductive healthcare.
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Mainstream legacy media in the U.K. has found a new target: young disabled women.
Activists Have Fought for Disability Justice. So-Called 'Sickfluencers' Still Face Medical Sexism.
Mainstream legacy media in the U.K. has found a new target: young disabled women. Last week, <em>Telegraph</em> editor Poppy Coburn published “How having a disability became cool,” arguing so-called…
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September 20, 2026 at 10:19 PM
Mainstream legacy media in the U.K. has found a new target: young disabled women.
No longer, under the new Massachusetts law, does a hospital lawyer, politician or anyone else get to decide whether a patient “deserves” to access this care.
Who Should Decide Whether a Patient Needs an Abortion: A Doctor or an Opinion Columnist?
A columnist platforms antiabortion talking points, attacking Massachusetts’ abortion protections while promoting crisis pregnancy center narratives.
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September 20, 2026 at 3:30 PM
No longer, under the new Massachusetts law, does a hospital lawyer, politician or anyone else get to decide whether a patient “deserves” to access this care.
"Mary Beth Barone’s 'Galaxy Brain' exposes mainstream comedy’s persistent misogyny … but feminist comedians have always created stages, traditions and audiences beyond the industry’s narrow field of vision."
'Galaxy Brain,' Feminist Stand-Up and Looking Beyond the Netflix Algorithm
“I’ve prepared a lot. I’m taking this very seriously, because it’s still very rare for women to get Netflix specials. I had to have sex with so many executives over there.” So begins comedian Mary…
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September 19, 2026 at 10:30 PM
"Mary Beth Barone’s 'Galaxy Brain' exposes mainstream comedy’s persistent misogyny … but feminist comedians have always created stages, traditions and audiences beyond the industry’s narrow field of vision."
After three nationwide protest mobilizations, No Kings is turning its attention to voter participation ahead of the midterm elections.
Next No Kings: Oct. 17 Day of Action Focused on Early Voting
Organizers of No Kings have announced a fourth nationwide mobilization for Saturday, Oct. 17, focused on early voting and helping voters make a plan for the midterm elections. “Power belongs to the…
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September 19, 2026 at 12:45 PM
After three nationwide protest mobilizations, No Kings is turning its attention to voter participation ahead of the midterm elections.
Women who survive abuse are too often punished by a justice system that offers dangerous men leniency while demanding impossible perfection from their victims.
The Perfect Victim Is a Dead Woman
This is a story about choices that are not really choices. It is a story about impossible circumstances propelling us down pathways we believe unimaginable. You always believe it could never happen…
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September 18, 2026 at 9:30 PM
Women who survive abuse are too often punished by a justice system that offers dangerous men leniency while demanding impossible perfection from their victims.
At the global level, the U.S. has become a leader in slowing and stalling progress on gender equality, with the U.S. mission to the U.N. pushing to remove the word “gender” from every U.N. resolution.
The World Cannot Forget About Women and Girls in Afghanistan
As Afghanistan marks five years of gender apartheid, Afghan women urge feminists worldwide to defend women’s freedom.
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September 18, 2026 at 7:30 PM
At the global level, the U.S. has become a leader in slowing and stalling progress on gender equality, with the U.S. mission to the U.N. pushing to remove the word “gender” from every U.N. resolution.
Tradwives and Lean–In style, corporate feminism offer opposing visions of womanhood. But both mistake individual choice for freedom and leave the systems constraining women intact.
What Feminists Can Learn From 'Yesteryear': Tradwives Are the New Girlbosses
Behind the carefully curated images of homemade bread, gingham dresses and backyard chickens, is an economic vision that depends crucially on normalizing women’s secondary status in society.
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September 18, 2026 at 5:30 PM
Tradwives and Lean–In style, corporate feminism offer opposing visions of womanhood. But both mistake individual choice for freedom and leave the systems constraining women intact.
From an always-listening pendant sold as a “wearable mom,” to an elder-care companion robot that would take the place of a grandchild, AI is increasingly being sold in feminized, familial terms as companionable, empathetic, human-centered and even caring.
Artificial Feminist Intelligence Is Not Feminism
AI may promise solutions, but artificial feminist intelligence can't replace the relationships, care and systemic change in demand.
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September 18, 2026 at 3:34 PM
From an always-listening pendant sold as a “wearable mom,” to an elder-care companion robot that would take the place of a grandchild, AI is increasingly being sold in feminized, familial terms as companionable, empathetic, human-centered and even caring.
'Furious' channels rage over gender-based violence into a feminist fantasy of women fighting back against abusers and the powerful systems that protect them.
'Furious' Is a Cathartic Feminist Fable After Years of Epstein Stonewalling
Furious offers a cathartic feminist fable of women fighting back against abusers and the systems that protect them, echoing the rage over Epstein’s crimes.
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September 17, 2026 at 9:30 PM
'Furious' channels rage over gender-based violence into a feminist fantasy of women fighting back against abusers and the powerful systems that protect them.
At Congress’ first-ever hearing devoted to menopause, lawmakers and experts confronted the nation’s persistent gaps in research, medical training and care.
Half the Country, a Fraction of the Research
America’s medical legacy was built on incomplete science. At 250, it’s time to make women’s health a permanent priority.
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September 17, 2026 at 7:30 PM
At Congress’ first-ever hearing devoted to menopause, lawmakers and experts confronted the nation’s persistent gaps in research, medical training and care.
Ms. and Women’s Media Group will bring together leading journalists, writers and media executives in NYC on Sept. 22 for a timely conversation about the role of feminist journalism, and the power of women’s voices to shape news, culture and public policy. Join us:
Tuesday, Sept. 22 in NYC: A Crucial Conversation on the Future of Feminist Journalism, Hosted by Ms. and Women’s Media Group
<Em>Ms.</em> magazine and Women’s Media Group will bring together leading journalists, writers and media executives in New York City on Tuesday, Sept. 22, for a timely conversation about the role of f...
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September 17, 2026 at 5:40 PM
Ms. and Women’s Media Group will bring together leading journalists, writers and media executives in NYC on Sept. 22 for a timely conversation about the role of feminist journalism, and the power of women’s voices to shape news, culture and public policy. Join us:
"It’s no wonder disabled women have not received the diagnoses or care they need: Most of the research about their bodies has yet to be conducted."
Activists Have Fought for Disability Justice. So-Called 'Sickfluencers' Still Face Medical Sexism.
Mainstream legacy media in the U.K. has found a new target: young disabled women.
Last week, <em>Telegraph</em> editor Poppy Coburn published “How having a disability became cool,” arguing so-called ...
msmagazine.com
September 17, 2026 at 4:37 PM
"It’s no wonder disabled women have not received the diagnoses or care they need: Most of the research about their bodies has yet to be conducted."