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1 week ago | 
thestoryexchange.org | Candice Helfand-Rogers
The loss of nationwide abortion access following the reversal of Roe v. Wade has had deadly consequences – for children. New research from Parvati Singh and Dr. Maria Gallo of Ohio State University, which was published recently in JAMA Pediatrics, shows that infant loss rose by 7% overall in the months following the 2022 U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to overturn the landmark abortion ruling.
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1 week ago | 
thestoryexchange.org | Candice Helfand-Rogers
You’d think that more than a century of women’s health advancements would make a difference in the length of women’s lives. But in parts of the U.S. where poverty is wider spread, healthcare is scant and policies are regressive, that isn’t the case.
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1 week ago | 
thestoryexchange.org | Candice Helfand-Rogers
Anna Bilych wants to be friends – which, she’s found, is easier said than done. The 27-year-old tech professional has made several moves to new cities, and new countries, over the course of her career. And each time, she found loneliness alongside opportunity. Ironically, she’s far from alone in this regard – a quarter of all people, throughout the world, report feeling lonely on a fairly regular basis.
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2 weeks ago | 
thestoryexchange.org | Candice Helfand-Rogers
Tory Burch is on a mission to create more unicorns. No, not the mythical, single-horned creatures. She’s setting out to help her fellow women entrepreneurs achieve billion-dollar revenues for their businesses – as she has for the fashion line that bears her name – and has just announced a commitment to grow the number of women “unicorns” by 2030.
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2 weeks ago | 
thestoryexchange.org | Candice Helfand-Rogers
In a win for women’s health, proposed cuts to the Women’s Health Initiative – ordered by the Department of Government Efficiency – seem to have been rescinded. Following significant outcry from the science and medical communities, federal officials said they would restore funding to the WHI, one of the largest and oldest studies focused on women’s health and aging. “These studies represent critical contributions to our better understanding of women’s health,” said Emily G.
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2 weeks ago | 
thestoryexchange.org | Candice Helfand-Rogers
In her new memoir, Tina Knowles is placing herself front-and-center. Knowles, best known as the mother of Beyoncé and Solange (not to mention mother-in-law to Jay-Z), released a memoir this month that tells her own story to the masses. It’s a broad, sweeping tale that delves into a range of experiences, from entrepreneurship to heartbreak.
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3 weeks ago | 
thestoryexchange.org | Candice Helfand-Rogers
In the U.S., the solid majority of women are, shall we say, less than enthused about Elon Musk. Just 35% of American women rated the unelected head of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) favorably, according to new polling data released this week by The Economist and YouGov. The rest, well…This aligns with how the majority of Americans of all genders view Musk, who has become President Donald Trump’s unofficial second-in-command.
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3 weeks ago | 
thestoryexchange.org | Candice Helfand-Rogers
The self-proclaimed “fertilization president” continues to address women’s ever-waning interest in having children with all of the skill, care and knowledge of … well, someone who would willingly dub themselves the “fertilization president.” It was announced this week that, in a bid to get American women to have more children – as the U.S. birth rate falls to an historic low – President Donald Trump’s administration has begun weighing a litany of ideas to incentivize them into motherhood,...
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3 weeks ago | 
thestoryexchange.org | Candice Helfand-Rogers
In case you’d forgotten: Representation matters, and a new study proves it. Researchers at the University of Notre Dame have found that when women candidates run for office, the adolescent girls who see them are more likely to vote when they’re of age to do so. The team involved in the study followed some 6,000 adolescent girls on their respective journeys to adulthood, beginning their research effort in 2002.
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3 weeks ago | 
thestoryexchange.org | Candice Helfand-Rogers
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is working hard to light a progressive path forward. The representative from New York has been an outspoken household name ever since taking office in 2019. Now, she is among those leading the charge to speak out against President Donald Trump’s sweeping regressive agenda – and is breaking her own personal fundraising records in the process.
