Today at Ms. | May 21, 2021

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Roe v. Wade Gave Women a Choice About Having Children—Here’s How That Changed Their Lives [[link removed]]

BY CONSTANCE SHEHAN | With the Supreme Court set to hear the Mississippi abortion ban case, we examine how the landmark ruling in Roe v. Wade greatly improved the lives of generations of women across the U.S. in the last decades of the 20th century and early in the 21st, giving them previously unknown levels of freedom, autonomy and control over their lives.

I Was Sexually Harassed at McDonald’s. Now I Know Why McDonald’s Ignored My Complaints. [[link removed]]

BY BARBARA JOHNSON | As McDonald’s shareholders gathered for their annual meeting on Thursday, former and current employees are calling on the company to, once and for all, address sexual harassment in its restaurants across the country. “My experience at McDonald’s has taught me the culture is created at the top. Maybe if McDonald’s higher-ups weren’t so busy condoning harassment in the C-suite, they’d have listened to workers like me when we sounded alarms about unacceptable behavior behind their counters.”

Shifting the Onus of Responsibility From Victims of Anti-Asian Violence to Perpetrators: Looking Beyond “Situational Awareness” [[link removed]]

BY AMANDA YIJUN WANG | The pandemic, and its associated blame game, has reminded many of us just how quickly tides can turn—how quickly, stepping out of the hospital and taking off my white coat propels me from “health care hero” to dirty bat-eating foreigner, or exotic, submissive object.

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