From the NY Times on women-about women

In the News:
Black mothers and maternal mortality: Black babies are now more than twice as likely to die as white infants — a racial disparity that is actually wider than in 1850, 15 years before the end of slavery. This cover story in The New York Times Magazine by Linda Villarosa is a must-read. It also garnered hundreds of letters from readers. [New York Times]
Indian girls fight back: As the country works to combat sexual assault, women and girls by the hundreds are taking free self-defense courses taught by New Delhi police. [New York Times]
The sanitized words of complicated women: Dianca London Potts works through the ways we've dulled the sharp, poignant edges of our literary heroes. [Shondaland]
Run like a girl: How Sarah Sellers, an unknown, unsponsored and previously unheralded nurse anesthetist from Arizona became a Boston Marathon legend. [The New York Times]
Beychella: At Coachella, Beyonce showed that there’s nothing a mother of three cannot do. She also, explains our Op-Ed columnist Myles E. Johnson, rewrote the book on black-respectability politics. [New York Times]
Fitspo: A 7-year-old Texan set a record last month as the youngest girl to climb Mount Kilimanjaro. [USA Today]
‘Nerves of Steel’: The pilot of the Southwest flight who landed the airplane with a blown engine was a navy veteran and among the first female fighter pilots in the U.S. military. [New York Times, NPR]
Finsta for moms? Some parents have taken to documenting their morning routines under a hashtag, #Before9am — which is basically the unfiltered version of all those baby photos in your feed. [Romper]