I spoke to both women and men in my professional life about the list and its implications for our industry. Over the course of these conversations, one thing that stuck out to me was that most of the men I spoke to admitted to having a moment of panic ― to wondering whether they were one of the shitty media men. They didn’t seem to be panicking about a particular “shitty” incident that could have made it onto the list.

“I was very confused, trying to reconcile what was happening with the person he was supposed to be,”Rachel Denhollander, one of the first women to accuse Nassar of sexual abuse that took place when she was just 15,told IndyStarin September 2016. “He’s this famous doctor. He’s trusted by my friends. He’s trusted by these other gymnasts.

“He would first grab my hand and compliment me, which in the beginning was flattering,” she said. “But then he grabbed and rubbed my leg. It was mostly embarrassing because the man behind him was looking at me as if to say, ‘What are you going to do?’ And I was just startled and a newbie and trying to be polite.” “We were on a layover in Maui, and the whole crew went out for dinner and drinks, totally standard,” she said.

Angelina Jolie knows that sexual violence is “a critical obstacle to achieving women’s equality and our full human rights.” The actress delivered the keynote speech at theUnited Nations Peacekeeping Defense Ministerial Conference on Wednesday in Vancouver, Canada. She called on international conflict negotiators to combat sexual violence, which is often used as a weapon in areas of conflict.

I have been writing about my rape ― at the hands of a group of adolescent boys when I was 14 ― online since at least 2011. In doing so, I have made myself vulnerable to what often felt like a tidal wave of scrutiny from those inclined to disbelieve women who say they were raped. Commenters dissected my appearance in author photos, whether my “provocative poses” and tattoos indicated that I had likely been a “willing participant to at least some degree.

The Olympic fencer announced on Monday at Glamour’s Women of the Year summit that she will be the next doll in Barbie’s “Shero” line which includes iconic women like Ava DuVernay, Gabby Douglas and Misty Copeland. Muhammad’s Shero doll will hit stores in 2018. Muhammad first made headlines during the 2016 Summer Olympics when she became the first Muslim-American woman to wear a hijab while competing for the United States.

The Glamour Women of the Year Awardsare an annual who’s who of womenwho inspire, provoke change and, in the case of this year’s “firsts” honorees, have led the way for other women to succeed. Five of these women shared the stage in Brooklyn on Monday night in an emotional showing of perseverance and force. They were each honored for contributions and achievements they were the first to make.

One woman put Joe Biden on the spot Monday afternoon over how he handled Anita Hillwhen, as a senator, he chaired the confirmation hearings forClarence Thomas’ nomination to the Supreme Court. The former vice president appeared at Glamour’s Women of the Year summitin New York with his wife, Jill Biden. After the discussion, BuzzFeed’s lifestyle editor, Rachel Miller, stood up with a question for him.

Former Texas State Senator Wendy Davis knows that the fight against gun violence cannot be won without women, and in an op-ed for Cosmopolitan published on Thursday,she wrote about why women “shouldn’t shut up” about the pervasive issue ― and how they can work to fix it. Davis opened the op-ed with a sampling of this week’s news headlines, about the mass shooting in Sunderland Springs that left 26 dead, as well as other shootings in Plano and North Austin.

For five decades, long-distance swimmer Diana Nyad has been publicly discussing how her swim coach repeatedly assaulted her when she was 14.She knows her situation is not unique, and she hopes that continuing to tell her story will convince other women to do the same. In a New York Times op-edpublished on Thursday, Nyad wrote that in 1964, she was napping at her coach’s house between state championship races when “out of nowhere, he was on top of me.