Why Is the FDA Poisoning the Beauty Industry?
Toxic hair products—including hair relaxers and the Brazilian blowout—have been making salon workers sick for years. With no regulation required, stylists are forced to save themselves.
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Is Netflix’s New Family Leave Policy as Good as it Seems?
The digital streaming company's groundbreaking benefit is unparalleled in the American workplace. So what's the catch?
In Defense of Dove’s “Female-Empowerment” Marketing
The company’s latest #SpeakBeautiful campaign has the haters out in full force. But could their seemingly insincere tactics have a genuine effect?
Are the Virtues of Higher Education a Lesson in False Advertising?
After years of adjunct teaching gigs, the novelist left academe for copywriting—much to her colleagues' chagrin. Her reasons will challenge everything you think you know about “selling out.”
Katharine Zaleski, We All Deserve a Break!
The CEO apologized for taking potshots at working moms, who may have clocked fewer hours at the office than she did. But should any of us be martyrs to our jobs?
To Kill a Literary Legacy?
For nearly 55 years, the elusive Harper Lee has been celebrated for writing one of the great American novels, "To Kill a Mockingbird." Do we really need—or want—to read the sequel?
Why Am I Spending Money Like I Have It?
When she was on salary, the writer brought lunch to work and drank office coffee to save money. Now that she's freelance, she is buying everything in sight. And there's a good reason for that.
Having a Woman At the Helm Really DOES Matter
Firing Jill Abramson reverts the ‘Times’ to a passively sexist environment—like nearly every other business.
Did the ‘New York Times’ Fire Jill Abramson Because She Asked for Equal Pay?
The Grey Lady makes history again by appointing a black editor to lead the newsroom for the first time, after the paper’s first female exec editor abruptly departs.