Today at Ms. | July 27, 2021

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Beyond Bridges and Roads: Congressional Democrats’ Call for Human Infrastructure

BY LILY SENDROFF | For Democrats in both the Senate and House, the bipartisan infrastructure bill—focused on so-called “traditional” infrastructure such as water systems, roads, bridges, clean power sources and broadband—is just the first step.

“Human infrastructure is intertwined with our physical infrastructure,” said President Biden.

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Youth of Color Take Action in Preventing Sexual Harassment in Bay Area

BY ESHA POTHARAJU | In order to make Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) safer for females and gender-expansive people, Reminie Chaidez and 99 other paid youth joined forces with Alliance for Girls to launch a campaign against gender-based violence in the country’s fifth largest transit system.

“Youth are the legacy of public transportation. We want other people to take this as an example and ask their local transit agencies to do the same.”

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Data Science and Its Diversity Problems

BY LAUREN CHURCH and CAROL STABILE | Like tech industries in general, the field of data science has a problem: Research suggests only 15 percent of data scientists are women, and fewer than 3 percent are women of color.
If data is going to serve a diverse range of citizens and consumers rather than a small subset, it’s imperative that the rules of the game change.

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In this exciting episode, we’re having the sex talk you wish you got from your parents. Do you remember Judy Blume’s Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret? Well, today it’s me, host Michele Goodwin, asking the questions and inviting you to join us as we talk about sex, periods, non-binary health care, maternal health—and what don’t we know or ignore about our own bodies.

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