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The Audacity of Confidence: Is It Imposter Syndrome or Is It Patriarchy?
At least 70 percent of people are estimated to experience this profound sense of phrenic inadequacy at some point in their lives, resulting in anxiety, lack of self-confidence, depression, frustration, and more.
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Owe Really: Financial Advice Ignores the Shared Reality of Debt
When financial advice doesn’t openly acknowledge that people live with debt, it only reinforces shame and guilt.
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Messy Reality: “Maid” Puts an Unflinching Lens on Women in Poverty
A lack of support for single mothers in poverty keeps the main character trapped in a cycle.
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Culture of Fear: 10 TV and Film Workers Call Out Hollywood Exploitation
The film and TV industry has been abusing its workers for decades with relentless schedules, stolen wages, grinding culture, unequal opportunity, and other hazardous conditions.
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Collateral Damage: When It Comes to Caregiving, Women Are Already Toast
Caregiving is cleaning up after the news crews have left, scrubbing the hidden black mold years later, becoming ill from the contaminated floodwaters.
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Wellness Influencers Owe the Indian Farmers Their Solidarity
Maybe now would be a good time to engage in a self-reflexivity that has long been missing in the wellness industry as a whole.
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No, Shitty Men Have Not Been Purged From Media
Every woman, nonbinary person, or person of color who is driven from journalism because of the shitty men in charge leaves us poorer as a culture.
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In “Work Won’t Love You Back,” Sarah Jaffe Kills the Dream Job
No one should have to earn the right to financial security through labor.
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#MeToobin Reveals How Little We’ve Moved the Needle on Workplace Harassment
A wide swath of people still shrug at or even delight in the spectacle of a man turning the workplace into an environment for sexual gratification without consent.
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Which Millennials Get to Be Burned Out?
Can’t Even manages to gather research on the specificities of white, middle-class millennial burnout, but it fails to provide a truly structural and historical view of the issue of work and millennials.
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