women
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The OA Co-Creator Brit Marling Wants More Than ‘Strong Female Leads’
One of the biggest criticisms of Brit Marling’s Netflix series The OA was the way that the story”people hopping across dimensions”placed more emphasis on emotional intelligence and the power of empathy (and, yes, interpretative dance), rather than “traditional” super-science and the kinds of action we’ve been conditioned to expect from sci-fi narratives.
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The Powerful Women Of Pop Culture Get Their Own Portrait Show
When Louisiana-based artist Ashly Lovett decided to do a gallery show based on the women of pop culture, narrowing down the options wasn’t easy.
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A New Study Reports That Movies Led By Women Earn More Than Those Led By Men
To listen to the way that internet trolls go on about how women becoming the central characters of franchises like Star Wars have somehow “ruined” the movies, one might be tempted to entertain the idea that women are bad for business. Common sense would tell you that isn’t at all the case, and now there’s…
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Women Are More Likely To Die From A Heart Attack If Their Doctor Is Male
There’s a strange gender paradox at the heart of cardiovascular disease. Men are more likely to be diagnosed with a heart condition in their lifetime than women, but diagnosed women are less likely to survive. A study out today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences offers a new theory for this disparity:…