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By Chloe Nazra Lee  | Medical literature extensively documents differences in practice by a physician’s gender. Women are more likely to practice evidence-based medicine and adhere to clinical guidelines. Nationally, women outpace men in both college and medical school enrollment. In medical training, women outperform their male peers on clinical assessments and are more likely to attain an honors degree.

Therefore, the merit-based hiring practices that the Trump administration vociferously demands should logically reflect these data. Yet, in 2022, women accounted for 38 percent of active physicians in the U.S., up from 26 percent in 2004. 

Might this indicate that men, not women, are the “diversity hires” of medicine? 

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By Amanda Litman | As a mom of two, an executive and someone who’s worked to elect pro-family leaders, I know firsthand how broken our system is for working parents—especially as the Trump administration pushes for higher birth rates while cutting support. In my new book When We’re in Charge, I offer four key ways business leaders can help fill the gap and ease the burden on working parents:

Paid family leave: It’s a win-win—good for families and for companies. But leaders need to actually take the leave to normalize it.

Four-day workweeks: Working parents are doing multiple jobs. Giving people time back improves mental health, productivity and balance.

Remote and hybrid work: Return-to-office mandates don’t work for most, especially parents. Flexible work is not only doable—it’s better long term.

People-first cultures: Go beyond policy. Model compassion. Make it okay to be a full person at work—not just an employee.

If we build more humane workplaces, we’ll support parents and improve outcomes for everyone.

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By Kelly Baden | Three years after Dobbs, the antiabortion movement is escalating efforts to block access to medication abortion, criminalize interstate travel, and impose a nationwide ban—threatening reproductive freedom across all 50 states.

As antiabortion groups continue to push back against access to reproductive care, empowering state protections on abortion is imperative.

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In this emergency episode, we’re ringing the alarm bells: We just learned that in the state of Georgia, a woman named Adriana Smith, who passed away in February, and has been declared brain-dead, is being forcibly kept on a ventilator due to the state’s strict abortion ban, against her family’s wishes. Dr. Michele Goodwin breaks down Adriana Smith’s case, and the cases of other women who, like Smith, have been disrespected and desecrated in death thanks to abortion bans and pregnancy exclusion laws.

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