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Leah Fessler

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she/her. 🇵🇸 JD, @YaleLawSch. now: civil rights attorney in STL. writing, civil rights, pugs. then: journalist @qz nyt & others
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His, Hers, Everyone’s: Gender-Equal Underwear Goes (Slightly More) Mainstream (Published 2021)

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By Leah Fessler
| The New York Times Verified
“We are building the brand that we wish existed when we were younger.” — Abby Sugar, co-founder and chief executive of Play Out Apparel Most of fashion’s offerings conform to the gender binary, but for gender-nonconforming individuals, that can make tasks as mundane as shopping for underwear downright Sisyphean. Consider Victoria’s Secret. After opening in 1977, it dominated the $38 billion lingerie market by selling a hyper-sexualized, hyper-gendered beauty standard.
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Workplace harassment lives on in the age of remote work

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By Leah Fessler
| The Seattle Times Verified
Last spring, as offices closed across the country and kitchen tables became desks, contemplating the possible upsides of the new professional conundrum felt like a means of survival. There was much tumult, and there were many questions. Among them: Once we all became boxes on Zoom or text bubbles in a chat, and once we were physically separated from colleagues and clients, would incidents of workplace harassment drop? That flame quickly went dark. What is virtual harassment?
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Home office não fez assédio no trabalho diminuir. Ao contrário, deixou assediadores mais confortáveis para cometer abusos

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By Leah Fessler
| O Globo Verified
No ano passado, quando os escritórios foram fechados e as mesas da cozinha se transformaram em escrivaninhas, contemplar as possíveis vantagens da nova dinâmica de trabalho parecia um meio de sobrevivência. Houve muito tumulto e muitas perguntas. Entre elas: uma vez que todos nos tornássemos caixas no Zoom ou bolhas de texto em um bate-papo, e depois que estivéssemos fisicamente separados de colegas e clientes, os incidentes de assédio no local de trabalho diminuiriam?
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