The media’s catty coverage of women politicians’ “likability” creates a maddening chicken-or-the-egg scenario: Are Warren, Pelosi, and Clinton inherently unlikable people (even if, hmm, they have somehow managed to win elections) or are they just dogged by so many sexist stories about their voices and health and capability for warmth or even their age (in the case of the rotten “go away, grandma, time for someone new” argument against Pelosi, consider that she is a full seven years younger than Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Sen. Chuck Grassley), that they are just branded as unlikable, again and again, on the national stage?

“I put on a suit of armor, eat nails for breakfast,” said Nancy Pelosi. “I know how to take a punch.” She is cementing her place as the highest-ranking and most powerful elected woman in the history of American politics.

Finding that balance between actual job responsibilities and these other diversity responsibilities, both of which are important to the health of an organization — it takes work.

Patagonia is having a very good year. And under our new corporate tax code passed by a Republican Congress and enthusiastically signed into law by President Trump, they’re paying a lot less in federal taxes. $10 million less, to be exact. Patagonia’s CEO announced her company is donating all $10 million to non-profit groups who work on issues related to climate change and the environment.

Robin Wright of House of Cards, The Takeaway’s Alison Stewart and Tanzina Vega, New York State Attorney General Barbara Underwood, 500 Startups’ Christina Tsai and more share what it was like to take over after powerful men were accused of sexual misconduct.

This is a depressing and ironic example of what feminists have been saying all along: women are people. These two things can coexist at once: Sheryl Sandberg can be rightly cast as a corporate villain, and also misogyny can animate how we understand, portray, and punish women’s unscrupulousness. That doesn’t mean we cut Sandberg unearned slack in the name of feminism. It does mean that we knock off the “boys will be boys” attitude about men…

Tesla named Robyn Denholm as its new chairman, replacing Chief Executive Elon Musk as the head of the board with a relative outsider

17 black women won judgeships this week. Now, 19 women judges sit on the bench in a Texas county. Pictured (from left): Lucia Bates, Erica Hughes, Sandra Peake, Cassandra Y. Holleman, Germaine Tanner, Ronnisha Bowman, Linda Marie Dunson, Maria T. Jackson, Angela Graves-Harrington, Dedra Davis, Shannon Baldwin, Latosha Lewis Payne, Ramona Franklin, Tonya Jones, Sharon M. Burney, Michelle Moore, Lori Chambers Gray, Tori J. Finch, LaShawn A. Williams. “For black women particularly, we take a seat at the table and things change. For us in this situation it will change in terms of criminal justice reform, health care, these are the kinds of cases that will come before us and really impact our community,” said LaShawn Williams.

“As entrepreneurs, we are all so busy ‘crushing it’ that physical health, let alone mental health, is an afterthought for most founders. It took me years to realize that the way I was feeling — when working on Reddit was the only therapy I had — was depression,” he wrote earlier this year. Alexis Ohanian has other advice to give, of course. But it was a theme that ran through his speech. Take care of yourself, because work is not a substitute for health: “Please do not succumb to hustle porn.”

Organizers demand the tech giant remove mandatory-arbitration clauses from employee contracts. Thousands of Google employees around the world staged a series of walkouts Thursday to protest a workplace culture that they say promotes and protects perpetrators of sexual harassment at the tech giant.