20 things you didn't know were invented by women

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Ruth Wakefield invented the first chocolate-chip cookie as a result of a baking mistake.

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A millennial woman secretly working two remote non-tech jobs shares why she's the atypical overemployed worker

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A Washington-based millennial hopes secretly working multiple jobs will help her retire early.

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Millennial women are about to get richer, report finds

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In the next decade, women are expected to benefit most from financial windfall. They plan to invest and donate to philanthropic causes.

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One woman saw the Great Recession coming. Wall Street's boys club ignored her.

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As chair of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Brooksley Born saw the financial crisis coming. But no one listened.

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This is an excerpt adapted from "WOMEN MONEY POWER: The Rise and Fall of Economic Equality."

British politicians think they have a plan to combat Andrew Tate's influence in schools. It's doomed to fail.

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Anti-feminist influencer Andrew Tate, under house arrest for rape and human trafficking charges, has millions of fans.

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'Trad wives' have blown up online since Roe v. Wade was overturned, but that's only half the story

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Stock image of traditional gender roles.

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A friend called her maternity leave a 'holiday.' It made her realize just how much she got wrong about it, too.

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Samira Shihab, a founder and mom of three, holding her newborn baby.

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Women in Iceland want you to know it's not a gender equality utopia, despite what the statistics say

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People across Iceland gather during the women's strike in Reykjavik, Iceland, Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2023.
An estimated 100,000 women and non-binary people gathered in the centers of cities, towns, and villages across Iceland as part of a 24-hour strike on October 24.

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The Gen Z gender gap is widening, and the influence of manosphere podcasters can't be ignored

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Pearl Davis (left) and Andrew Tate are two influential figures in "the Manosphere."

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COMIC: I led an all-women military unit in Afghanistan. Here's what happened when Kabul fell.

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