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August 2023
July 2023
Where There's a Will, There's a Way
It shouldn't have taken a car crash to get my affairs in order, but it did. Then I found out a whopping 67% of you do not have wills. "Do you guys ever…
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Deborah Copaken
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What is PCOS?
And why does it take so many women years or even decades to be diagnosed?
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Deborah Copaken
16
June 2023
Meet Maria Weston Kuhn, the Gen-Z Warrior Taking on the Car Industry
In 2019, Maria and her family were in a car accident. Her father and brother, sitting in the front seat, were fine. Maria and her mother, sitting in the…
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Deborah Copaken
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My Car Crash Confirmed That the Absence of Female Crash Test Dummies Remains an Ongoing Health Hazard for Women
Car manufacturers have known for decades that their cars are not designed for women, either for driving or surviving collisions. Last week, this gender…
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Deborah Copaken
57
When a Woman Betrays a Woman
Tales of men betraying women are as old as heteronormative love and time. But when a woman betrays another woman, what does she--or rather the…
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Deborah Copaken
9
May 2023
The Power of Forgiveness
Rachel Louise Snyder lost her Jewish mother at 8 and was kicked out of her evangelical father's home at 16 after years of physical abuse. What she did…
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Deborah Copaken
29
Old Dog + New Tricks = Life Hack
One day, in the thick of middle age, New Yorker writer Adam Gopnik had an epiphany. Society urges us to achieve. At all costs. What if, instead, we…
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Deborah Copaken
11
Shamed by a Doctor
The same month two new papers on the physical and economic ravages of menopause were published, a physician whose care I sought spoke enraging words I…
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Deborah Copaken
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April 2023
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