Fake Nudes and Real Threats: How Online Abuse Holds Back Women in Politics
Female politicians face more personal online attacks than their male counterparts, researchers have found. That online abuse can escalate into violence.
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June 3, 2021, 8:09 p.m. ET
“The social media environment is so gendered and full of vile material when it comes to women politicians.” Julia Gillard, Australia’s first, and only, female prime minister, in a 2019 interview
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The first year that more than two women simultaneously served in the U.S. Senate was 1992. It was dubbed the “Year of the Woman.”
The labor market recovery is uneven. Teenagers are flooding back into jobs, while those older than 55 are less likely to work than before the pandemic.
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Thatâs a question Cathy Engelbert, the leagueâs commissioner, is grappling with. Since joining the W.N.B.A. in 2019, she has settled a collective bargaining agreement to increase player compensation and has overseen the W.N.B.A.âs recent push into sports betting. In this conversation, Kara Swisher and Engelbert discuss why womenâs sports are underwatched and undervalued, what that means for pay equity and whether the womenâs league will ever be financially independent from their parent organization and male counterpart: the N.B.A.
(A full transcript of the episode will be available midday on the Times website.)