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via Women Also Know Stuff

And Carlile gives some excellent parenting advice: don’t let your kids go to sexist and unsafe music festivals!

Carlile: It all comes back to representation, which is a problem everywhere but especially in country music and especially at festivals. If my kids were teenagers and wanted to go to Bonnaroo, I’d say, “Let me see the poster.” If women weren’t headlining at least half of that thing, I’d say no. Not just because of politics, not on principle, but for safety. Representation creates an environment where women can feel at ease.

via Brandi Carlile And Margo Price Talk Sexism in Music And Not Letting Their Kids Go to Bonnaroo

For decades there has been relatively little technical innovation in women’s health products, but the rise of connected devices and a lifting of health taboos around the world is giving rise to a global “femtech” industry worth many billions.
Women make up 51% of the world’s population, but many of the issues they have to deal with, from menstruation to menopause, have often been taboo subjects.
As a result, women have been underserved when it comes to new products. But things are changing – female-focused technology, or femtech for short, is booming, with research consultancy Frost & Sullivan saying the market could be worth $50bn (£39bn) by 2025.
Moody founder Amy Thomson was motivated by personal experience to move into femtech.

via ‘People find anything about the vagina hard to talk about’ – BBC News

Wikipedia, the encyclopedia of everything, is mostly about men. According to Women in Red, an in-house Wikipedia improvement project, less than 18 percent of the site’s 1.5 million biography pages are about women. And that figure actually represents an improvement: in late 2014, the number was 15 percent. A lot of that progress is thanks to Women in Red itself, which was founded in 2015 to increase and improve the site’s coverage of women.

Of course, most of written history concerns men, since most humans in recorded history have lived under a patriarchal society. So there’s more source material about them. But that doesn’t fully explain Wikipedia’s skew. As the New Statesman reports, major articles leave out prominent women. “History of Chemistry,” for example, names 200 men and four women, ignoring major figures like Nobel-winning metabolics researcher Gerty Cori and CRISPR researcher Jennifer Doudna, who, according to her own Wikipedia page, “has made fundamental contributions in biochemistry and genetics.” It’s not that there aren’t more women worth covering; it’s that they’re being ignored.

via Read New Wikipedia Entries About Women With ‘Women in Red’