Women and Girls
Missouri State Lawmakers Revise Their Dress Code for Women
The Missouri State House of Representatives revised its dress code for female legislators and staff members, requiring them to wear a jacket, such as a blazer or a cardigan, and setting off a debate about policing the fashion choices of women. The updated dress code — which was adopted on Wednesday by a vote of […]
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Why an Aging Casino Company Embraced Barstool’s David Portnoy
Regulators in 13 states have permitted Penn to offer Barstool-branded sports betting, with four states also allowing digital casino games. Penn also has introduced Barstool bars and sports-betting venues in 12 locations. The results for Penn have been mixed. The Barstool betting app is the seventh-largest in the country by revenue, according to research firm […]
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Book Review: ‘Lady Justice,’ by Dahlia Lithwick
LADY JUSTICE: Women, the Law, and the Battle to Save America, by Dahlia Lithwick In 1873, the U.S. Supreme Court decided that women had no constitutional right to practice law. Indeed, as Dahlia Lithwick notes in this stirring book, a justice explained that the “natural and proper timidity and delicacy which belongs to the female […]
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Lisa LaFlamme Ouster Sets Off Outcry in Canada
From a makeshift studio and with a news anchor’s measured tones, one of Canada’s most familiar faces shocked viewers, created a PR disaster at a national broadcaster and set off intense conversations about how employers treat women as they age. She did it with a polite, unexpected farewell. “I guess this is my sign-off from […]
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In ‘A League of Their Own,’ Abbi Jacobson Makes the Team
Abbi Jacobson really can play baseball, she insisted. Just not when the cameras are rolling. “I fully get the yips when someone is watching me,” she told me. This was on a recent weekday morning, on a shady bench with a view of the ball fields in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park. Jacobson lives nearby, in an […]
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Roger Goodell May Take Deshaun Watson’s Punishment Into His Own Hands
“Before they were too harsh, and now in a way, they were not harsh enough, but this was a much better process and didn’t put the integrity of the commissioner and the league in question,” said Bob Boland, who leads the sports law program at Seton Hall University. “The fact that the result is unsatisfying […]
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Kansas Abortion Vote Tests Political Energy in Post-Roe America
OLATHE, Kan. — In the final days before Kansans decide whether to remove abortion rights protections from their State Constitution, the politically competitive Kansas City suburbs have become hotbeds of activism. In neighborhoods where yard signs often tout high school sports teams, dueling abortion-related messages now also dot front lawns. A cafe known for its […]
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A Polish Priest’s War Against Abortion Focuses on Helping Single Mothers
SZCZECIN, Poland — Abortion has been banned in Poland for 29 years, but that has done little to prevent women from finding access to the procedure, leaving the Rev. Tomasz Kancelarczyk a busy man. The Roman Catholic priest plays ultrasound audio of what he describes as fetal heartbeats in his sermons to dissuade women considering […]
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Julianna Peña vs. Amanda Nunes: U.F.C. Battle of Toddler Moms
There, she met Nina Ansaroff, who trained at the same gym. Initially sparring partners, the two soon struck a romantic relationship. They soon shared a two-bedroom home with seven other people in Little Haiti, a Miami neighborhood with some of the city’s highest poverty rates. Their lives began to stabilize as they entered the U.F.C., […]
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