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Today at Ms. | August 21, 2025
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What Do Women Really Want? HBO Max’s ‘Hacks’ Has Some Ideas (and Nine Emmy Nominations) [[link removed]]
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By Vicki Shabo | For creatives and studio executives looking to reach new and more diverse audiences—especially in a time when cultural divisions often push networks to oversimplify or water down content—Hacks offers a roadmap: Respect women viewers. Tell stories that reflect the complexity of their work, relationships and daily realities. And above all, recognize that validation and understanding aren’t side notes to entertainment—they’re at the core of what makes it resonate.
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August 2025 Reads for the Rest of Us [[link removed]]
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By Karla J. Strand and Violet Pandya | Each month, Ms. provides readers with a list of new books being published by writers from historically excluded groups.
Check out the top 25 books that we are excited about this month!
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Over a Million Women Are at Risk of a Pay Cut Under a New Trump Rule [[link removed]]
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(Leigh Vogel / Getty Images for Caring Across Generations)
By Seema Nanda | The Trump administration’s Department of Labor recently proposed a new rule that would directly take earnings away from the more than 1.5 million home care workers in the United States, more than 80 percent women, and their families.
Between 2019 and 2040, the population of adults ages 65 and older is expected to balloon from 54 million people to nearly 81 million people, comprising an estimated 22 percent of the U.S. population. That means that the direct care workforce is projected to grow at a faster rate than any other occupation over the next decade.
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[link removed] [[link removed]] Listen to the latest podcast from Ms. Studios! The latest episode of Looking Back, Moving Forward is out now on Apple Podcasts [[link removed]] + Spotify [[link removed]] .
This episode traces 50-plus years of feminist writing and advocacy focused on naming, confronting, and preventing sexual harassment, rape culture and intimate partner violence—and the urgency of acknowledging the violence of patriarchy, white supremacy and other social forces in our everyday lives and building a future without fear.
We hope you'll listen, subscribe, rate and review today!
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