Manicurists are routinely underpaid and exploited, and endure ethnic bias and other abuse, The New York Times has found.

Some ingredients used in nail products have been tied to cancer, miscarriages, lung diseases and other ailments. The industry has long fought regulations.

It was an epic mismatch of messenger and message, and I say that as someone who is thankful for this pope, admires him greatly and believes that a change of tone even without a change in teaching has meaning and warrants celebration.
But a change of tone in defiance of fact should be flagged (and flogged) as such. And neither Pope Francis nor any other top official in the bastion of male entitlement known as the Vatican can credibly assert concern about parity between the sexes. Their own kitchen is much too messy for them to call out the ketchup smudges in anybody else’s.

Three years ago, Dr. Doudna, a biochemist at theUniversity of California, Berkeley, helped make one of the most monumental discoveries in biology: a relatively easy way to alter any organism’s DNA, just as a computer user can edit a word in a document.
The discovery has turned Dr. Doudna (the first syllable rhymes with loud) into a celebrity of sorts, the recipient of numerous accolades and prizes. The so-called Crispr-Cas9 genome editing technique is already widely used in laboratory studies, and scientists hope it may one day help rewrite flawed genes in people, opening tremendous new possibilities for treating, even curing, diseases.
But now Dr. Doudna, 51, is battling on two fronts to control what she helped create.

In addition to practicing law, Ms. Simon and her law partner, Rebecca Geller, have a near-evangelical determination to show that parents can nurture their professional ambitions while being fully present in their children’s lives. Ms. Simon has such conviction on this point that she is almost personally offended by suggestions it might not be possible. The widely read and debated 2012 essay in The Atlantic, “Why Women Still Can’t Have It All,” by Anne-Marie Slaughter, a former State Department official, is a particular source of irritation. “I think women can have it all,” she said. “It’s just based on your paradigm of ‘all.’ ”

Victims who report military sexual assault are 12 times more likely to experience retaliation than to see their attacker convicted of a sex crime, according to a report released Monday by Human Rights Watch and Protect Our Defenders.
The report’s findings are in line with a Defense Department survey that found 62 percent of women who report being sexually assaulted later experience retaliation, and came from a review of Pentagon records and interviews with victims.

PAJU, South Korea — A group of 30 female peace activists, including the feminist leader Gloria Steinem and two Nobel Peace Prize laureates, crossed the demilitarized zone from North Korea to South Korea on Sunday, calling for an end to the Korean War, whose unresolved hostility has been symbolized by the heavily armed border for six decades.
It was rare for the two rival Korean governments to agree to allow a group of peace activists to pass through the border area, known as the DMZ.

In a career that has made her a perennial leader of the United States team — a veteran who is called Ma on her club team because she takes care of everything — it’s amazing to hear that Rampone almost ignored an invitation from the national team because she had better things to do. But that’s partly what makes her so special, and rare, among the players in the World Cup.

The complaint comes amid a growing national debate over whether campus culture fosters sexual assault and as colleges face mounting pressure from the Obama administration to be more aggressive in investigating and preventing sexual assault and harassment. Last year, the Department of Education disclosed the names of colleges — 55 in all, though experts say that number has grown to more than 100 — under investigation for possibly violating federal rules aimed at stopping sexual harassment, under the provision known as Title IX.

The wives of the masters of the universe, I learned, are a lot like mistresses — dependent and comparatively disempowered. Just sensing the disequilibrium, the abyss that separates her version of power from her man’s, might keep a thinking woman up at night.