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Fast Company May 2015 Mary Pilon	Planned Parenthood's President On Reproductive Rights: "These Issues Shouldn't Be Partisan Issues" We sat down with Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards to discuss crises, politics, and good female mentors.
Fast Company May 2015 J.J. McCorvey	Can Intel Solve Tech's Diversity Problem? Brian Krzanich said, "It's not just good enough to say we value diversity and then have our workplaces and our industry not reflect the full availability and talent pool of women and underrepresented minorities."
Fast Company Lydia Dishman	Kleiner Perkins Wants Ellen Pao To Pay $1 Million For Losing Her Gender Discrimination Case The firm has offered Ellen Pao a new deal: Drop the case or pay us $1 million. If Pao chooses to let the case go, KPCB said they would move on without asking for any other compensation.
Chemistry World April 21, 2015 Fiona Case	Gender bias in US research funding investigated At the request of three Congresswomen the US Government Accountability Office has launched an investigation into whether gender bias is influencing the awarding of research grants, which would be illegal under US law.
Chemistry World April 17, 2015 Angeli Mehta	Women twice as likely to be hired for academic posts as men Researchers in the US said they were shocked to find that, in a series of experiments designed to simulate the hiring process, women were twice as likely as men to be ranked first for a tenure track job.
Fast Company Samantha Cole	Jury Determines Kleiner Perkins Did Not Discriminate Against Ellen Pao The jury, made up of six men and six women, have decided that the firm did not discriminate against Pao on basis of gender.
Fast Company Rebecca Greenfield	UN Women Says It Has No Plans To Collaborate With Uber On Job Creation (Updated) Just 10 days after Uber announced a global program to get more women drivers, UN Women has backed away from its highly publicized partnership to create 1 million jobs for women.
Fast Company Samantha Cole	Facebook Sued For Gender Discrimination Former Facebook employee Chia Hong is taking the social network to court for alleged gender discrimination, racial discrimination, and sex harassment, in a lawsuit filed Monday.
Fast Company Tina Amirtha	Tech's Actual Gender Numbers Are Vague And Grim. A Small Tweak Could Change That The NY-based venture capital firm Female Founders Fund (F Cubed) plumbed data on its own and found an uptick in funding for women-led startups in 2014, especially in New York, when compared to a year earlier.
Chemistry World March 9, 2015 Maria Burke	Royal Society to address gender imbalance The Royal Society is to take steps to encourage more women to access its career development awards and will train its selection panel members to guard against gender bias.
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