Mankeeping Is Real—and Women Are Exhausted

We asked 21 women how much emotional labor they shoulder for their partners. The answers? Frustrated, funny, and sobering.    Your partner has three friends: a college roommate he hasn’t called in a year, his brother, and you. Guess who’s carrying the weight? If this scenario sounds familiar, you might be “mankeeping.” When Mankeeping Gets a […]

What’s Love Got To Do With Your Bank Account? How to Share a Life, Not a Ledger

For women who’ve built something worth protecting, “what’s mine is yours” isn’t romantic—it’s risky. Here’s why more women are rethinking what financial intimacy really means.  Beth Sterling was a successful tech executive when she married her husband at 41. Accustomed to earning and spending on her own, the idea of mingling their money was, for […]

How Ms. Magazine Started a Revolution—and Why It’s Far From Over

The directors of the new HBO documentary Dear Ms.: A Revolution in Print talk about the magazine’s storied history and why its “consciousness-raising” is needed now—more than ever. “Try to imagine a life where you are owned by or controlled by the men in your life.” This opening line of the documentary Dear Ms. pulls […]

Not All Dicks Are Men. Ask Me How I Know.

Women Can be Just as Prone to Dickish Behavior—But There’s Hope It’s always struck me as funny that our most essential and pleasurable body parts double as our culture’s favorite insults. We don’t call a useless person an appendix or a nudgy nag an elbow. No, we go straight for the genitals. You know the […]