Today the economy is strong but >455K women have left the workforce since Jan, pushed out by return-to-office, public-sector layoffs, increasing childcare costs+gender pay gap+burden of unpaid eldercare. This isn’t a market failure; it’s a man-made crisis. https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/5591318-shecession-womens-economic-decline/

50 yrs ago, 90% of women in Iceland went on strike. No cooking, cleaning, laundry, or childcare. Schools closed. Flights grounded. Men stayed home or took kids to work. Today Iceland has smallest gender pay gap in the world & tough equal pay laws.

The Persistent

50 Years Ago, Iceland's Women Went on Strike. It Changed Everything.

They stopped cleaning and cooking; they stopped doing laundry and they stopped looking after their children. They’d had enough.

RTO is a glass ceiling in disguise. Turnover for women under RTO policies is 3x higher than for men. Mothers of young children are hardest hit; labor force participation dropping 2.8 points. Flexibility shouldn’t be a perk—it’s a retention strategy. https://www.forbes.com/sites/juliakorn/2025/10/16/return-to-office-mandates-are-the-new-glass-ceiling/

This is how male gatekeeping works. Certain women are allowed into leadership, but only to the extent that they support the men in charge. "[The R men] try to marginalize the strong Republican women that actually want to do something." https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/10/14/marjorie-taylor-greene-interview-shutdown-aca-epstein-mike-johnson/

212,000 women left the work force between Jan and Aug 2025, while 44,000 men entered. The US govt is unconcerned, seeing men's employment as essential, but women’s employment as a nice to have, their job loss not constituting a serious obstacle.

Opinion | American Women Are Leaving the Work Force. Why?

With the gutting of a federal agency, the Trump administration is asserting their view of women’s place in society.

Studies find medical AI tools powered by LLMs have a tendency to not reflect severity of symptoms for women patients & display less "empathy" toward Black and Asian patients. Many Drs are using LLMs & note taking apps to generate transcripts & summaries.

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There isn't a single college major where women (who outnumber men in college) earn more than men. Examples: Social Work: 9.5% Nursing: 14.6% Elementary Ed 16.0% Comp Sci: 20.4% Sociology: 20.7% Business: 26.0% Engineering: 26.3% Criminal Justice: 27.1% https://www.forbes.com/sites/eriksherman/2025/09/16/surprising-data-on-college-majors-poverty-rates-and-gender-pay-gaps/

The median woman working full time in 2024 earned 81% of what the median man earned — a drop of 2 points from 2023. Men got raises last year; women did not. Median income for men=$71,090--an increase of 3.7%. Women earned $57,520, flat from 2023. https://www.axios.com/2025/09/09/dei-gender-pay-gap

Bro-PO Market: Of 61 companies that filed IPOs in 1st 2 weeks of Aug, 88% of firms (mostly tech) had only one or no women on the board and 93% had only one or no women in the C-suite.

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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.”