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As a gender pay equity bill is taken up in the Massachusetts House, it is time to consider a question: Should your salary be contingent on your own talents and work ethic — or on what the lazy employee in a roughly similar position makes? Although House bill 1733 is couched
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With the kids out of school, people are starting to make the most of the summer. They're hitting the beaches, taking weekend trips, and enjoying neighborhood picnics and bike rides. This is New England at its best. It's a shame, though, that government so often seeks
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BOSTON — Campus climate surveys, which supporters say can help schools identify the best practices for curbing sexual assault on campus, but which have been widely criticized by both conservative and feminist groups, could soon be coming to Massachusetts. Last spring, state Sen. William Brownsberger (D-Belmont) authored a bill that calls
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WASHINGTON – At American University in the nation's capital, a division has emerged among the college's female students between those who regard themselves as progressive feminists and those who align themselves with feminism's more conservative wing. The controversy arose earlier this year when the university&
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When Simone de Beauvoir's landmark book, "The Second Sex" landed on shelves in 1949, sex differences were clearly defined: people born male were men, and people born female were women. De Beauvoir's book challenged this assumption, writing, "One is not born, but rather
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Men, on average, are significantly physically stronger than women. Western pop culture — replete with images of 100-pound girls knocking out muscular men twice their size with an artful kick — disguises this biological reality. Indeed, I've seen athletic young female college students shocked when an average-sized guy beats them
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The year of 2015 was a busy one for food alarmists. You know who I'm talking about — the people who constantly clutch their pearls and wring their hands while warning that everything sold in the grocery store is toxic. These fear-mongers scare the average consumer and tell them
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Few stories pack as emotional a punch as ones that involve someone diagnosed with a terminal illness beating the odds, being the first cured — the one who lives and brings hope to others facing the same death sentence. A newly released book, "The Right to Try," shows that
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