- An unemployed black woman named Yolanda Spivey pretended to be white (and named Bianca White) in her Monster.com job search and found that her employment prospects dramatically increased. [Clutch Magazine]
- The police chief of Saratoga Springs, New York, has had to apologize for his team’s mishandling of a violent rape case. [Jezebel]
- Contraception use is lower and unintended pregnancies are higher among military women. [Think Progress]
- The Catholic Church spent $2 million fighting marriage equality in the last election cycle. [Human Rights Campaign]
- There are various debates about yesterday’s declaration from the United Nations that access to contraception is a universal human right. [The Week]
- How Obamacare will allow women to be less dependent on their spouse’s health coverage. [Think Progress]
- On what it’s like to be transgender and black. [Queerty]
- Oh, look, pink pepper spray! It’s pink because it’s girly, you see. [The Gloss]
- Has “The Walking Dead” become a white patriarchy? [Salon]
- On the myth of the fake geek girl. [io9]
INTERNATIONAL
- Somalia has gotten its first-ever female foreign minister. [Al-Arabiya]
- On the vanishing men of Syria … and the rise of single mothers. [New York Times]
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