When we ask for inclusivity in Hollywood, we're not asking because it's a nice thing to do. We're asking because it's the right thing to do. Because not doing so is actively harmful, and because being inclusive is the thing that will make the stories that come out of Hollywood better. A group of some of the top trans and gender non-conforming talent working today made a video talking about just that.

Being a professional dominatrix is completely and totally 100% legal (though laws regulating it vary from state to state). This is an important fact to remember as we look at the case of New Jersey sheriff’s officer, Kristen Hyman. **CW: Brief description of consensual BDSM activity**

Hey women, good news! A recent article in Scientific American has figured out why you don't see yourself rising through the professional ranks in the same way your male colleagues seem to be able to: It's because you don't want to. Yup, apparently, we should all stop hitting our head on that glass ceiling and just admit we wanted to plaster over it all along.

Last month, two black women who worked in the Fox News payroll department filed a racial discrimination suit against the network and its parent company, 21st Century Fox. Now, New York Magazine reports that seven more black Fox News employees will join that suit next week.

The term "girlboss" has come into the mainstream in large part thanks to Nasty Gal founder and CEO Sophia Amoruso's memoir/how-to guide, Girlboss (upon which the Netflix show launching Friday is loosely based). As geeks, we're no stranger to the addition of "girl" to certain words in order to assert a feminine presence: fangirl, geek girl, gamer girl, etc. But does the word "girl," do more harm than good?

Early last month, four female legislators in Italy proposed a law that would, as reported by Jezebel, "give women who want to stay home [from work] during their periods the opportunity to do so." The proposed law, which is currently in the lower house of the legislature, would give women an optional three days paid leave a month if they have painful, or particularly heavy periods.

According to today's report from The New York Times, women in five separate harassment cases against Bill O'Reilly have been paid approximately $13 million in settlements, from either O'Reilly himself or Fox News.

It's one thing to talk about closing the gender-based wage gap. But now Iceland has taken steps toward becoming the first country to make employers prove they pay their employees equally.

There's no question that, in many areas, the lives of women have improved worldwide as more and more women in more and more countries force gender equality to the forefront of the national discussion. However, there's also no question that "improvement" depends on the sector at which you're looking, and what you consider positive, feminist change.

Uber is not having a great year.

The U.S. Women's National Hockey Team will sit out the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) World Championship as the result of an ongoing dispute over fair pay and support for girls' hockey programs. In response, USA Hockey has threatened to replace them at the event with a team of scabs.

If you are a man, and you are/want to be an ally to women (and we hope that you do!), you may be wondering what exactly you can do to help the feminist cause being marked today. Here are a couple of ideas for you, not just for today, but for every day.

During a meeting with Uber CEO Travis Kalanick, female employees at the embattled transportation company told Kalanick that there is a very real systemic problem present in their workplace.

What makes the gender-based wage gap in medicine more infuriating is that, despite the sexist "drawbacks" commonly cited when hiring women to justify lower pay, JAMA Internal Medicine recently published research demonstrating that women actually make better doctors, and that fewer people die when under their care.

Women in Sweden now have a number they can call after they've been mansplained to.

If you're looking for a new series in the vein of Mad Men and The Newsroom that tackles workplace discrimination within the bustling years of journalism in the late 1960s--look no further than Amazon's new upcoming series Good Girls Revolt.

After seeing their complaints about harassment at work get ignored by higher-ups, several current and former Apple employees have chosen to leak 50 pages of emails to provide evidence of harassment they experienced at work--and examples of how their bosses ignored that the harassment occurred.