What’s Current: Women suing Google over pay discrimination win class-action status

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  • A lawsuit accusing Google of pay discrimination based on gender bias has won class-action status.
  • Police in West Yorkshire are still failing to protect girls as young as 11 from abduction and suspected sexual exploitation, a decade on from revelations of similar failures to protect children from grooming gangs in Rotherham.
  • Children have been found selling sexually explicit video content on the British web subscription site, OnlyFans.
  • Eighty per cent of Tokyo high schools require higher entrance exam scores for female students than they do for male students.
  • The Lancet has commissioned a report on reducing the burden of cardiovascular disease in women, which the medical journal describes as, “understudied, under-recognized, underdiagnosed, and undertreated,” in spite of being women’s leading cause of death.
Natasha Chart

Natasha Chart is an online organizer and feminist living in the United States. She does not recant her heresy.