For a decade I’ve been writing and editing women’s lifestyle content for major news outlets. Reporting was an aspect of the job, but what constitutes women’s lifestyle hovers between news and entertainment. At each publication, the criteria for women’s content have been carved into categories: food, fashion and beauty, relationships (though limited sex), health and diet, and parenting. Politics were filtered through the lens of fashion (what [insert first lady’s name] wore to the state dinner), entertainment through relationships (what we can learn about love from [insert celebrity
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