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The White House teams up with dating apps to promote COVID-19 vaccines
Tinder, Bumble, OkCupid and others are offering incentives to encourage users to get vaccinated.
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Women in health care are at a breaking point — and they’re leaving
In the pandemic, women are abandoning health care jobs, citing burnout and decades of inequities in a system that was never designed to support them.
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How expanding vaccine eligibility for kids will impact mothers
The FDA authorized the Pfizer vaccine for those 12 to 15. Experts say that could help moms get back to work.
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With COVID vaccinations, CDC finds older women are being left behind
A new analysis showed that older women, who face significant barriers to access, were less likely than older men to have gotten at least one COVID-19 vaccine.
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'It's really been a disaster': How COVID-19 has endangered gender equity worldwide
The 19th spoke with Natalia Kanem, who heads the United Nations Population Fund, about the pandemic's impacts on reproductive health access and the broader implications if the coronavirus surge is not stopped.
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The women’s recession isn’t over — especially for moms
One year since the start of the women’s recession, hundreds of thousands of moms have been forced to leave their jobs — and grapple with the consequences.
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We don’t really know if vaccines have been distributed equitably
The federal government has collected vaccination data by race, sex and age, but it hasn’t analyzed those together, making it impossible to tell if Biden has delivered on a key promise of his first 100 days.
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Alaska lawmaker, already at odds with colleagues over mask rules, gets airline ban
Republican Sen. Lora Reinbold is now one of several hundred people that Alaska Airlines has banned for not following mask rules.
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Use of Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine should resume, CDC panel says
The vaccine, which has been linked to a rare side effect involving blood clots and low platelets in women under age 50, will come with a warning label.
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Exclusive: Biden administration says its $2 trillion infrastructure package could ease economic gender inequities
In a memo first shared with The 19th, the administration argues the American Jobs Plan is critical to undoing the pandemic recession’s disproportionate impact on working women of color.