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News Articles: gender

Georgia state Sen. Carden Summers, R-Cordele, testifies on Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2023, before the Senate Education and Youth Committee at the Georgia Capitol in Atlanta. Summers says his bill is needed to regulate how public and private schools teach about gender, but LGBTQ+ advocacy groups and some conservatives both oppose the measure.

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Opponents are unimpressed as a Georgia senator revives a bill regulating how schools teach gender

A Georgia state senator is trying to revive a proposal aimed at stopping teachers from talking to students about gender identity without parental permission. But both gay rights groups and some religious conservatives remain opposed to the bill.

August 24, 2023
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<strong></strong>Kate Zernike is a national reporter for the <em>New York Times.</em>

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  • Books

This book dissects the years-long battle for gender equality at MIT

The few female scientists at MIT in the late 20th century found themselves faced with hurdles related to their gender rather than their research. So they did what scientists do: they quantified it.

August 21, 2023
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  • Manuela López Restrepo
The Cobb County Board of Education voted to disregard an earlier decision to allow teacher Katie Rinderle to keep her job after parents complained about a book she read to her fifth-grade class this past school year.

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  • Education

Cobb teacher loses job after close Board of Education vote

Georgia's Cobb County School Board of Education voted Thursday evening to disregard a decision to allow fifth-grade teacher Katie Rinderle to keep her job.

August 17, 2023
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  • Amanda Andrews
A movie screening in Hollywood, Calif.

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  • Movies

USC study reveals Hollywood studios are still lagging when it comes to inclusivity

A new University of Southern California report pinpoints areas that need improvement — as well as a few small wins.

August 17, 2023
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  • Chloe Veltman
The 50th anniversary of Barbie, in 2009, was commemorated in New York by a lineup of Barbie dolls from different eras, starting with the original in a black-and-white swimsuit.

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  • Arts & Life

Is Barbie a feminist icon? It's complicated

The Barbie movie is being celebrated (and slammed) as a feminist film, with its themes of female empowerment and critiques of the patriarchy. Can the same be said for the doll at the center of it?

July 27, 2023
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  • Rachel Treisman

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  • Global Health

Women were already unequal in the world of global health. The pandemic made it worse

A new report from Women in Global Health looks at how much ground was lost — and what the impact is on health care.

March 24, 2023
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  • Melody Schreiber
Women leaders are switching jobs at the highest rate in years, the 2022 edition of Women in the Workplace, an annual report from LeanIn.Org and McKinsey & Company, found. The authors are calling it "The Great Breakup."

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  • Business

Women leaders switch jobs at record rates as they demand better from their workplaces

Women leaders — already in short supply — are leaving their companies at rates not seen in years, a new report says. For every woman at the director level who gets promoted, two women directors leave.

October 31, 2022
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  • Rachel Treisman
Nine years ago Donovan Atterberry's girlfriend became pregnant, but a lethal chromosomal disorder was detected. She chose to terminate the pregnancy, and Atterberry says "it changed my whole perspective ... on bodily autonomy and things of that nature." He's now an organizer for New Voices for Reproductive Justice, which advocates for Black womens' health care, including access to abortion.

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  • National

The end of Roe v. Wade has huge economic implications for male partners, too

Research is more limited, but shows that men who become parents younger than planned are less likely to go to college and have lower earnings.

June 28, 2022
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  • Juliana Kim
Lia Thomas, center, smiles on the podium after winning the 200-yard freestyle during the 2022 Ivy League Women's Swimming and Diving Championships on Friday.

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Penn swimmer Lia Thomas had a record-breaking week at the Ivy League Championships

Thomas, a 22-year-old trans woman, placed first in three freestyle events at this week's Ivy League Women's Swimming and Diving Championships at Harvard University. Next stop: NCAA championships.

February 19, 2022
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  • Michaela Winberg
Social Democratic Party leader Magdalena Andersson poses during a news conference after being appointed as Sweden's first female prime minister at the Swedish parliament in Stockholm on Wednesday. She resigned hours later but was reelected on Monday.

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  • Europe

Sweden's first female leader quit last week after a few hours. She was just reelected

Magdalena Andersson, a former finance minister who leads the Social Democratic Party, won her second election in less than a week. She will officially take office on Tuesday.

November 29, 2021
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  • Rachel Treisman
Hollins University was founded in 1842 on the principle that "young women require the same thorough and rigid training as that afforded to young men."

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  • National

Who belongs at a women's college in 2021? Students want admissions policies to change

Women's colleges have adapted admissions policies for a generation that increasingly identifies as nonbinary. Hollins University's exclusion of nonbinary applicants has raised hackles.

November 26, 2021
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  • Melissa Block
In the German language, nouns themselves are often gendered. Cities across Germany, including Lubeck, are now trying to use gender-neutral language by placing a colon or asterisk within words.

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  • Europe

Germany debates how to form gender-neutral words out of its gendered language

The German language is full of male and female nouns. Officials and businesses are tweaking words, including adding asterisks, to make them inclusive.

October 30, 2021
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  • Esme Nicholson
Georgian chess champion Nona Gaprindashvili plays at the International Chess Congress in London on Dec. 30, 1964. She is suing Netflix for defamation and invasion of privacy over its series <em>The Queen's Gambit.</em>

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  • Law

A Chess Trailblazer Is Suing Netflix Over Her Portrayal In 'The Queen's Gambit'

Georgian chess legend Nona Gaprindashvili is suing Netflix for defamation. At issue is a line in the show's final episode that falsely says she hadn't played against male opponents.

September 18, 2021
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  • Rachel Treisman
A supporter for the transgender and non-binary community, wearing a transgender flag with handwritten names of black trans women who the person said were killed in 2019, strolls through the city's Midtown district during Gay Pride Festival's Transgender Rights March in Atlanta on Saturday, Oct. 12, 2019. The march was part of the annual Gay Pride Festival. (AP Photo/Robin Rayne)

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  • News

2021 Shines Difficult, Complicated Spotlight On Transgender Georgians

As America shines a new spotlight on transgender issues across the country, Georgia has not been exempt from that conversation.

February 19, 2021
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  • Sarah Rose
Edwards spent years training for traditionally male ballet roles, but it was beginning to feel too limiting, he says. What he really wanted to do was to dance en pointe, the technique where you dance on the tips of your toes using special ballet shoes.

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  • Arts & Life

With A Leap Across Gender Norms, A Rising Ballet Star Looks To Rewrite Rules Of Dance

Ballet student Ashton Edwards is the rare dancer who is expanding his repertoire and his craft by training to dance in en pointe shoes, once worn only by women.

January 16, 2021
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  • Martha Ann Overland
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