For the Week Ending October 4, 2020.
A collaboration of Pregistry and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
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In Unpregnant, on HBO Max, a high school senior gets pregnant. To get unpregnant, she must take a ride through our country’s reproductive health system. Watch a clip here.
This is important for you because you’ll be glad you’re not in high school anymore-
Paid paternity leave in France has just been doubled, from fourteen days to twenty-eight. And seven of those days are mandatory!! Now they are in line with other large countries in Europe; we still lag far behind. Read more here.
This is important for you because when international travel becomes viable again, this is a pretty generous proposition.
Catherine Dulac has just won a Breakthrough Prize, one of the most prestigious and lucrative in biology, for her work showing that the same neural pathways governing sex specific behaviors (like parenting styles) are present in male and female mice. Read more here.
This is important for you because research into how sex differences are mediated should be rewarded.
Six-foot-eight-inch tall Liz Cambage, who plays on the Las Vegas Aces WNBA team, has long been familiar with the different standards around men’s and women’s bodies. In her photo shoot for Playboy, she talks about how amazing breasts are. Read more here.
This is important for you because while we might not all be able to relate to being a pro athlete or being in Playboy, we can probably all relate to being judged and treated differently from the men around us.
