For juries of "one's peers", instead of excusing mothers and primary caregivers from jury duty, courts should provide ways for such prospective jurors to obtain child care, whether it be actual care services, vouchers, stipends, or other accommodations.
Slate Magazine
The One Group That’s Still Too Often Excluded From Juries
Abraham Lincoln once said that “the greatest service of citizenship is jury duty.”
In June, Rhode Island became the first state to require workplace accommodations for menopause, including temperature control, flexible breaks and private spaces for symptom management.
HuffPost
This U.S. State Passed A Stunning New Law That Will Change Women
"Reading the specifics of the law, I felt something I had not expected: validation."
The Gates Foundation pledge of $2.5B to women's health research is commendable! But, "overall investment in this area needs to be substantially greater" which means we need greater investment from the federal government (e.g. NIH), not less. https://www.axios.com/local/boston/2025/08/04/gates-foundation-womens-health-research
Study of 10 female and 10 male pilots using flight simulator finds despite having nearly identical visual attention patterns and flight experience, female pilots tend to make fewer flight control errors when stress levels increase. https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1092930
Women-founded companies generate 78¢ of revenue for every $1 raised vs 31¢ for male-founded startups. They burn 15% less capital--in 2024 $270K/month vs US startups $320K/month. Yet female founded startups received only 2.1% of venture capital in 2024. https://www.inc.com/annabel-burba/female-founders-outperform-their-male-counterparts-but-receive-much-less-funding-study-finds/91212886
Unpaid work = is equivalent to 13% of the US GDP. It is measured by the American Time Use Survey, which is targeted by DOGE. If the govt ends the survey, we will become blind to the full picture of our economy and the extent of unpaid care. https://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2025-07-22/trump-cuts-unpaid-work-labor
Study of 6,600 episodes of kids’ TV over 60 years finds boys portrayed as ‘doers’ and girls as passive. And male characters still dominate dialogue, 50% more than female characters. https://www.forbes.com/sites/kimelsesser/2025/07/16/for-60-years-kids-tv-cast-boys-as-doers-and-girls-as-passive-study-finds/
Study finds A.I. LLMs advise women to ask for lower salaries than men. When prompted w/ a user profile of same education, experience & job role, differing only by gender, ChatGPT advised the female applicant to request $280K salary; Male applicant=$400K.
TNW | Deep-Tech
ChatGPT advises women to ask for lower salaries, study finds
A new study has found that large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT consistently advise women to ask for lower salaries than men.
These articles about wealthy (mostly male) execs working 24x7x365 never discuss the supports that they have in place to allow them to solely focus on their work... Wives dealing with home(s) and caring for children, paid household staff, etc.
Fortune
Like Mark Cuban and Barack Obama, this founder says work–life balance doesn’t exist for the successful: ‘Even if I am on vacation, you're on 24 hours a day' | Fortune
Even after successfully building a multi-million dollar business, the CEO of That’s It Nutrition still grinds all hours of the day: ‘Even if I ...
Women are adopting AI at a rate of 25% less than men. Women are more reluctant to use AI due to ethical concerns, a reputational risk (fear of being judged for leaning on AI tools), and the fact that training data underrepresents them. https://www.fastcompany.com/91352117/women-have-been-slower-to-adapt-ai-at-work-heres-why-women-work-ai