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Life’s Work: An Interview with Megan Rapinoe

By Alison Beard

The bold and brash captain of the U.S. women’s soccer team cemented her place in sports history with an MVP performance in last year’s World Cup, including spot-on penalty kicks under pressure, even as President Donald Trump tweeted criticisms of her.

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‘We Have to Be Better’: Megan Rapinoe and the Year of Victory and Advocacy

With her play and her talk, did the soccer star inspire us to redefine the meaning of sports? She tried.

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Sonia Sanchez Speaks Truth to Power, Poetically [Interview]

A formalist with wide poetic range, Sanchez’s vast body of work includes poems that delve into themes that resonate with those who’ve known isolation’s dance.

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Efforts by Women of Faith to Achieve Gender Equality

Here are five ways in which women of faith are fighting for gender equality at work and in broader society—empowering young women as feminist and womanist theologians, faith community leaders, social justice advocates, and elected officials.

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The Legacy of Audre Lorde

There is this thing that happens, all too often, when a Black woman is being introduced in a professional setting. Her accomplishments tend to be diminished. The introducer might laugh awkwardly, rushing through whatever impoverished remarks they have prepared.

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Why Women Need Fierce Self-Compassion

Compassion isn’t always soft and gentle; sometimes it means being forceful and fierce.

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100 Years Later, These Activists Continue Their Ancestors’ Work

As Americans mark a century since the suffragists’ struggle, their descendants reflect here on the movement’s legacy among Americans of all races, faiths and genders battling for what the suffragists — quoting the president at the time — described as “liberty: the fundamental demand of the...

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4 Ways ‘Strong Black Woman Syndrome’ Keeps Us Poor

The Strong Black Women Syndrome demands that Black women never buckle, never feel vulnerable and, most important, never, ever put their own needs above anyone else’s—not their children’s, not their community’s, not the people for whom they work—no matter how detrimental it is to their...

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5 Ways to Empower Female Entrepreneurs

Finally, the long held stereotype that a female working for a female boss was doomed to encounter a character like Miranda Priestly in the Devil Wears Prada is wearing thin.

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Success Isn’t Just about Climbing the Corporate Ladder. Here’s Why 24 Entrepreneurs Quit Their Corporate Jobs to Start Their Own Companies.

Whatever their reasoning — a need for flexibility, a lack of representation, or a yearning to have more of an impact — their inspiring stories of leaving their corporate jobs beautifully illustrate that success is not a one-size-fits-all destination but rather an exciting journey filled with endless...

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The Openly Gay Rabbi Who’s Working to Change the Face of Judaism

By not allowing her path to God to interfere with her sexuality, Lisa Grushcow ‘embraced both parts of her identity’—and now, as Dan Bilefsky finds out, she’s working to make Judaism more inclusive for women.

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