KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — In a sunlit art studio in Kyiv filled with easels and canvases, Iryna Farion puts the finishing touches on an oil painting with a predominantly dark color palette in shades of blue and brown. The artwork depicts two intertwined trees held together by their roots, as though in embrace, and a…
Australia head coach Tony Gustavsson said the Women’s World Cup co-hosts will use the weight of expectations as fuel as they prepare to face France in the final warm-up game before the tournament begins next week. The Women’s World Cup will begin on July 20 in Australia and New Zealand, with Australia’s opening match with…
Women are underrepresented across the fintech industry, and the emerging realm of Web3 is no exception. There are many reasons for women to be both frustrated and inspired about the potential for increasing diverse representation in the crypto industry. Alarming statistics from a Boston Consulting Group study earlier this year revealed that only 13% of…
There is a moment, several chapters into Elizabeth Winder’s “Parachute Women: Marianne Faithfull, Marsha Hunt, Bianca Jagger, Anita Pallenberg, and the Women Behind the Rolling Stones” that quietly justifies the book’s existence. In the biographical introduction of the section about aspiring R&B artist Marsha Hunt — before her life is rerouted by bearing Mick Jagger’s…
Youth is still prized as a superpower in society, including where you work. Research has found that people are more likely to automatically assume you are more ambitious, intelligent and tech-savvy when you are thought to be younger. But in the workplace, being young or looking young can also be wielded against women. In a new preliminary study featured…
Suspected pedophile and former fashion mogul Peter Nygard was arrested on more sex crime charges, this time for a 1993 case in which he’s accused of sexually assaulting a 20-year-old at his company’s headquarters in Canada. Winnipeg, Manitoba, police obtained an arrest warrant on Monday for city native Nygard, 81, after months of investigation into…
