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Watch Out for the Coyote Near the Ninth Hole!

Quirky Yet Welcoming, the Rancho Park Golf Course Reminds Me Why I Live in L.A.

When I was starting out at my first law firm about two decades ago, I noticed the young male associates were invited to poker games where scotch was consumed and cigars were smoked. I wanted no part of that, because scotch and cigars aren’t good for you. The male associates were also invited to join the partners in golf foursomes during firm retreats. Presumably, the women couldn’t play and would spend their time at the spa, and there was only one—one—female associate who was sought out for a foursome. She …

by Kathleen Hallinan |

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The Office Party Has Left the Strip Club

This Was a Year to Celebrate Women’s Victories in the Workplace. New GM CEO Mary Barra Is Just One Example of How Far We’ve Come.

by Liza Mundy |

“At least we don’t have office parties in strip clubs anymore,” mused a college friend of mine over a recent end-of-year lunch. She entered a bank training program in the …

Reality Checks for Watchers of Journalism and the Middle East

Michel Martin on the State of the News and Leila Hilal and Dina Sherif on Women’s Empowerment

Hosted by Anne-Marie Slaughter |

Anne-Marie Slaughter turns the tables on Michel Martin, interviewing the NPR host about the future of journalism—and gets surprising news about changing audience demographics. Leila Hilal, director of New America’s …

Where Are the Women Nobel Laureates?

Female Scientists Need More Support To Make It To Stockholm

by Meredith Wadman |

The mother of tweens was folding laundry at 5 a.m. before going to an early spinning class when the phone rang. It was early October 2009 and Carol Greider, a …

How I Made Guns a Women’s Issue

Betty Friedan and Pink Handguns Mobilized Angelenos—and Me—Against Violence

by Ann Reiss Lane |

The phone call from Betty Friedan caught me by surprise. The surprise was not that the feminist icon called me. We were friends. It was that she called to order …

Goodbye, Jesus. Hello, Male-Bodied Roommate.

I Thought My Coptic Christian Upbringing Was Religious. Then I Got To College.

by Marie Helmy |

My life began in 42 A.D. Four decades after the birth of Jesus, Saint Mark established Christianity in Alexandria, creating a community of believers that would cling to tradition for …


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