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Column: Why macho culture is bad for business

By Bert Spector

A faulty corporate culture can encourage short-term advantage at the cost of looming catastrophes, stifle innovation, foster distrust or fuel excessive risk-taking.

The demand for nursing isn’t going away. Will more men join their ranks?

By Kristen Doerer

The problem is these health care jobs are associated with women’s work and with women’s pay.

Why do actors and actresses have separate award categories? MTV just eliminated theirs

By Dayana Morales Gomez

When the MTV Movie and Television Awards airs May 7, acting categories will be non-gendered.

Column: How government data is crucial for everyone’s progress

By Heidi Hartmann

With the budget proposal shaping up from the new administration, all of us who depend on data to understand the world we live in must be fiercely vigilant about the implications for data availability and data integrity.

Virginia joins global movement to criminalize female circumcision

By Alison Thoet

Virginia’s General Assembly unanimously passed legislation Wednesday to crack down on female genital mutilation, criminalizing the procedure with up to a year of prison. The bill now awaits Democratic Gov. Terry McAuliffe’s signature.

States struggle to close their own gender pay gaps

By Teresa Wiltz, Stateline

Male state workers earn more than their female counterparts in many states, including California, Idaho, Maryland and Texas.

Column: Needing flexibility at work shouldn’t be seen as a weakness

By Sallie Krawcheck

Workers have families, too. If they need to go part time, their commitment to the company shouldn't be questioned, Sallie Krawcheck writes.

Trans patients, looking for fertility options, turn to cancer research

By Corinne Segal

There are an estimated 1.4 million trans Americans, and physicians told the PBS NewsHour Weekend that demand is increasing for health care specific to them. Many doctors are confronting the issue of fertility among trans communities.

Column: Women in the workplace don’t need to be empowered. They need to own their power

By Sallie Krawcheck

Here's a different take: Women don't need to conform to a man's game to find success in the workplace, Sallie Krawcheck says.

Few women run the nation’s school districts. Why?

By Denisa R. Superville, Education Week

Even though K-12 education is largely a female enterprise, men dominate the chief executive's office in numbers that look especially bleak given that the pool of talent is deep with women.