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Don’t call my breasts ‘boobs.’ It’s degrading.

The tone of the word “boobs” is jaunty and jokey and a little bit tough: women taking back and wielding a word that was once used to demean us. But the word is still degrading.

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When professional white women say they aren’t focused on social activism

White women are the biggest beneficiaries of affirmative action in the United States. They also have more wealth than Black and Latina women, are more likely to be married, and are more likely to be admitted as legacy students to Ivy league universities.

Columns

The mayor, the business community, and so many fragile egos

A certain part of Boston’s business community is freaking out.

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Stop bailing out the rich and their banks

Confidence in the financial industry and the government has been lost, and it is time for a change.

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Women are prepared to lead as CEOs. Why won’t boards hire them?

A new research report found that among the largest 75 public companies in Massachusetts, only six CEOs are women — a mere 8 percent.

Ideas

What Elena Ferrante knows about the lingering pain of inequality

I spent eight years chronicling the ways poverty bred violence in post-Industrial New Haven neighborhood. Then I read the Neapolitan Quartet and recognized the same struggles in Naples.

Ideas

Low unemployment is the cheapest anti-poverty program

Inflation is a problem, but our fight against it may be costlier in the long run.

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Diversity, equity, and inclusion must include people with disabilities

There is a gap between what businesses and the public sector perceive they’re doing to be inclusive and what they are actually doing.