David Stone
Founder & Euro Editor
Navigating Apps with Changes in Memory: Join Our Study
December 2, 2025
Weill Cornell Medicine seeks older adults with mild memory loss for a study on improving navigation apps. Participation is valuable,...
The Impact of Pay Gap and Poverty on Single Mothers in America
Single mothers face a staggering poverty rate of 28%, due in part to a significant pay gap. Mothers of color fare even worse, earning just 51-52 cents for every dollar paid to White, non-Latino fathers. Additionally, childcare responsibilities impact their careers, with one in five single mothers having to stop working due to childcare challenges during the pandemic. Paid leave could offer a potential solution.
A Glaringly Obvious Answer to America’s Truck Driver Shortage
Understaffed trucking companies are trying to roll back child labor rules. Why not just stop discriminating against women? By Jim Hightower | October 18, 2023 Seemingly intractable problems sometimes have an obvious solution standing right in front of them. Our nation’s dire…
How It Took 105 Years to Make a Bra
Originally published by The 19th Republished with Permission: The Roosevelt Island Daily News Loretta Walsh was 20 years old when she joined the Navy, put on a modified men’s uniform and became the first woman to officially enlist in the…
Barriers for Black women set U.S. economy back by $500 billion, report finds
The persisting wage gap has set Black women — and the American economy as a whole — back for the past six decades, according to a report by financial services firm S&P Global. Chabeli Carrazana Originally published by The 19th…
Report: Significantly more women than men left workforce during pandemic school closures
Bethany Blankley | The Center Square contributor/May 15th, 2021 (The Center Square) – A “tidal wave of women” left the workforce in 2020, according to a new academic study published in the journal, Gender & Society. Researchers found that women primarily…
Women used to dominate the beer industry – until the witch accusations started pouring in
What do witches have to do with your favorite beer? When I pose this question to students in my American literature and culture classes, I receive stunned silence or nervous laughs. The Sanderson sisters didn’t chug down bottles of Sam…
‘It’s never too late’: The entrepreneurial spirit of older women
When asked why they wanted to set up a business later in life, twice as many women than men said they wanted to realize a long-held ambition. Mariel Padilla Originally published by The 19th Mary Rawles worked full-time as a…
Women in President Donald Trump’s White House earn 69 cents for every $1 paid to male staffers
The gender pay gap is wider than the national pay gap and wider than the gap in the Obama White House. Chabeli Carrazana Originally published by The 19th During the Republican National Convention, the high-ranking women in Donald Trump’s White…
How men can ‘lean in’ on behalf of women
Opinion OPINION: Women have been pulled away from their jobs during the pandemic. Here’s what they need right now from male allies in the office. By W. Brad JohnsonBy David G. Smith 12.10.2020 Men who thought the Covid-19 “she-cession” was…
David Stone
Founder & Euro Editor