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The Invisible Victims of Traumatic Brain Injury
Most people know it’s a problem for athletes and soldiers—but it affects victims of domestic violence even more
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Exploring and celebrating diversity in science.
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Medicine’s Power Problem
It’s not just “superstar” doctors who get away with abuse of patients, medical trainees and other hospital staff
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Sexual Harassment Is Still the Norm in Health Care
If you can’t think of a high-profile doctor who got “taken down” by the #MeToo movement, it’s not for a lack of perpetrators
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The Woman Who Founded Industrial Medicine
Pathologist Alice Hamilton was among the first to focus attention on the dangers of lead, explosives and noxious chemicals in the workplace
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The Headless, Legless Pregnancy Bump
Images featured in stories about childbearing almost inevitably leave out the rest of a woman’s body, and it’s dehumanizing
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We’re Sorry, Vera Rubin
The rarity of science Nobels for women is an ongoing scandal
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The Darkest Side of Fossil-Fuel Extraction
It leads to violence against, and the trafficking of, Native women
Behavior
It’s Time for a World without Gender
Let’s treat people based on who they are rather than on the form of their genitals
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Women in Cybersecurity: Where We Are and Where We’re Going
Here’s how to bring gender equality to a thoroughly male-dominated field
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The Darker Side of John Wesley Powell
Like other early American geologists, the man who explored the Colorado River did anthropologic research that presupposed the racial inferiority of Native Americans
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