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Girlboss Is Dead. What Killed It, and What Comes Next.
Sheryl Sandberg told us to lean in. Thirteen years and a she-cession later, the math doesn't add up—and the ideology that made burnout feel like a personal failure has some explaining to do.
Maya KulkarniMarch 5, 2026International Women's Day Was Born on a Picket Line. Here's Who Stole It.
IWD started on a garment workers' picket line in 1909. Now corporations use it to sell purple products while paying female warehouse workers poverty wages. Let's run the actual math.
Maya KulkarniMarch 4, 2026The Pink Tax Is Still Legal. Here's the $1,300-a-Year Math No One's Doing for You.
The pink tax costs the average woman over $1,300 a year on razors, dry cleaning, mortgages, and more. Here's the exact breakdown—and what we're doing about it.
Maya KulkarniMarch 3, 2026Pauli Murray Wrote the Legal Blueprint for Your Rights. Why Don't We Know Her Name?
The Black queer legal scholar who built the constitutional arguments behind civil rights AND gender equality—and whose name history keeps erasing. We fix that today.
Maya KulkarniMarch 3, 2026The Motherhood Penalty Has a Dollar Amount. Here Are the Receipts.
Having a baby costs the average American woman $16,000+ a year in lost wages — while men get a raise. This isn't a confidence gap. It's a rigged system. Here are the receipts.
Maya KulkarniMarch 2, 2026Your Women's History Month Action Plan (No Pink Merch Required)
We learned the names this morning. Now here's your five-point action plan for changing your own corner of history — concrete steps, real stakes, no awareness campaigns.
Maya KulkarniMarch 1, 2026Women's History Month, Day One: Learn the Names They Didn't Teach You
Women built the American labor movement. Then they were written out of it. On Day One of WHM, we learn four names the textbooks skipped: Clara Lemlich, Dolores Huerta, Luisa Moreno, and Fannie Lou Hamer. We owe them more than a hashtag.
Maya KulkarniMarch 1, 2026Women's History Month Starts Tomorrow. Your Company Already Sent the Email.
Every March, corporations wrap themselves in feminist history while opposing the policies that would actually help women workers. Here's how to see through the pinkwashing — and three actions that actually matter.
Maya KulkarniFebruary 28, 2026The Pay Equity Shell Game—Why "Accounting Tricks" Aren't the Same as a Raise
A new "accounting technique" is being promoted as a solution to the gender pay gap. Here's the problem: it's designed to make the pay gap *look* smaller without actually giving women more money. This is corporate gaslighting dressed up in spreadsheets.
Maya KulkarniFebruary 26, 2026Childcare "Flexibility" Is a Trap Door—Here's What's Actually Happening to Your Subsidies
The Trump administration just proposed gutting four childcare protections added in 2024. They're calling it "state flexibility." It's actually a return to a system where poor families pay 20% of their income for care and small daycare providers go bankrupt. The comment deadline is tomorrow.
Maya KulkarniFebruary 25, 2026The DEI Backlash Is Corporate Smoke and Mirrors—Union Contracts Are What Actually Pays the Bills
While the EEOC signals DEI scrutiny, union workers are winning real money. Here's why corporate equity programs were theater—and what actually works.
Maya KulkarniFebruary 25, 2026The Wage Gap Is Getting Worse—But We Just Got a New Weapon
The wage gap is widening—women make 81 cents on the dollar, Latina women just 55 cents. But California and Illinois just passed pay transparency laws that give workers the power to see what they're actually worth. Here's how to use them.
Maya KulkarniFebruary 24, 2026