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3 weeks ago | 
thepersistent.com | Lucy Webster |Josephine Lethbridge |Emma Haslett
The Trump administration’s attempt to overhaul the United States’ election system was met by a slew of legal challenges this week claiming that an executive order issued last week on voting rights is unconstitutional and that it would prevent millions of citizens from voting—in particular women and people of color. The Campaign Legal Center and the State Democracy Defenders Fund—two non-profits—brought the first lawsuit Monday afternoon.
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3 weeks ago | 
thepersistent.com | Lucy Webster |Josephine Lethbridge |Emma Haslett
The Pandemic — 6 min read It might be tempting to refer to the pandemic as a thing of the past; something that’s now part of history. But it’s not. The pandemic’s effects, at least, aren’t over: They linger in the form of a sweeping mental health crisis that’s disproportionally burdening young women. And they linger in the millions of individuals who are living with the debilitating symptoms of long Covid every day.
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3 weeks ago | 
thepersistent.com | Josephine Lethbridge |Emma Haslett |Lucy Webster
This piece was first published on The View From Down Here, a Substack covering the unvarnished truth of disability by the U.K.-based writer, Lucy Webster. It is republished on The Persistent with Lucy's kind permission. You can subscribe to The View From Down Here here. Or you can buy Lucy’s book by the same name here. I tend to be hyper-aware of my body when I’m on holiday.
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4 weeks ago | 
thepersistent.com | Emma Haslett |Ruchi Kumar |Josephine Lethbridge
💛The following piece is republished with kind permission of our friends at The Evidence newsletter. The Evidence is a monthly deep-dive into the causes of gender inequality, written by Josephine Lethbridge. Every month, Josephine sifts through the latest academic research to help readers understand the gender gap—and how to begin to close it. Sign up for The Evidence here.
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Dec 23, 2024 | 
lesglorieuses.fr | Josephine Lethbridge
“The commercial sector often clashes with the values of public health,” McCarthy says. “Corporations have a primary objective to maximise profits and to often act in the interests of the company and its shareholders, not the consumer.” This means that health and social policies need to tackle the deep-rooted inequalities in our social and economic systems to prevent them from being repeated in the products and services we develop.
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Nov 25, 2024 | 
lesglorieuses.fr | Josephine Lethbridge
You can read this newsletter online at this link: https://lesglorieuses.fr/part-time-menChris Stirling is a Technology Consultant for the insurance company Zurich. He lives in Glasgow with wife Kerry, son Oliver, who is seven, and daughter Abigail, who is three. When Stirling joined Zurich, he worked full-time, but he reduced his hours in August 2020 to split the childcare more evenly with his wife.
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Oct 28, 2024 | 
lesglorieuses.fr | Josephine Lethbridge
Sweden is widely regarded as a world leader when it comes to the gender pay gap. Since 2009, employers have been legally required to report on the pay gap between men and women and publish action plans to address pay inequities. It has long been light years ahead of other countries when it comes to progressive parental leave and childcare policies, which lessen the career penalty that a woman pays on becoming a mother.
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Aug 26, 2024 | 
lesglorieuses.fr | Josephine Lethbridge
Following a positive pregnancy test, an 18-year-old from Washington state, USA, took ibuprofen and caffeine pills, antibiotics, and alcohol and then bled for three weeks. One woman, also 18, drank vodka for over three hours. Another took regular ibuprofen and antibiotics over a week, before having a clinical abortion. A 15-year-old girl took three contraceptive pills at once. A few hours later she vomited a few times and passed the pregnancy.
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Jul 22, 2024 | 
lesglorieuses.fr | Josephine Lethbridge
While these three eras take quite different approaches, the researchers found that the underlying theory behind them remained the same: the assumption that in order to change behaviour, we need to change people’s ideas. They found that none of these approaches have an effect on perpetration rates. Changing what people think about sexual violence just doesn’t seem to change how they behave.
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Jun 24, 2024 | 
lesglorieuses.fr | Josephine Lethbridge
“We have already talked so much about our difficulties but everyone just listens. Everyone listens. They do nothing […] just listening, recording and taking pictures. Nothing happened. So I don’t even feel like talking anymore.”These are the words of an ex-fighter from the district of Bardiya, in Western Nepal. She had been one of the many women to join the Maoist uprising and fight as a combatant in Nepal’s decade-long civil war which ran from 1996 to 2006.
