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The Broadsheet: March 2nd

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March 2, 2015, 8:03 AM ET

Happy Monday, Broadsheet readers! Women may be overmedicating their feelings, Ronda Rousey takes out an opponent in 14 seconds and Sen. Dianne Feinstein speaks out against Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu’s upcoming visit. Should be an interesting week!

EVERYONE'S TALKING

• Pure insanity. Has the pharmaceutical industry profited off of women's fear of expressing too much emotion — or at least their tendency to seek help more frequently than men do? "As a psychiatrist practicing for 20 years," writes psychiatrist Julie Holland in The New York Times, "I must tell you, this is insane."   NY Times

ALSO IN THE HEADLINES

• Bonus points. Mika Brzezinski, co-host of MSNBC's Morning Joe, is announcing this morning that she plans to give away $50,000 in a "Grow Your Value Bonus Competition." During her "Know Your Value" tour across the U.S., she will divvy up the prize money to five women who best convince her that they deserve a $10,000 raise. Fortune

• Martha Stewart, livin'. During New York Social Media Week, Martha Stewart said her company, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, would be expanding internationally, specifically naming China's growing middle class as a target. In other Martha news, the homemaking maven also claims she rolls great joints.  The Guardian

• A frank Feinstein. Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) responded to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's statement that his decision to speak before Congress, without President Obama's approval, is motivated by his interest in protecting all Jewish people, not just Israel. "He doesn’t speak for me on this," she told CNN on Sunday. "I think that arrogance does not befit Israel, candidly."   Bloomberg • Saving insult from injury. Anne Wojcicki thinks her genetic testing company, 23andMe, can put people in charge of their own healthcare decisions. “One of the things I find insulting in healthcare is how many decisions are made for you and you’re never given this chance,” she says in a San Francisco Chronicle profile. SF Chronicle

• Down and out. Ronda Rousey continues to beat her way toward world domination, or at least through the ranks of the Ultimate Fighting Championship. On Saturday, she beat opponent Cat Zingano in just 14 seconds. Read her backstory, and why she doesn't mind being hated. Yahoo Sports

• Policing women. Women are actively recruited into the ranks of Afghanistan's police force. But the results are not what the Western powers funding such efforts had hoped.  NY Times

• Reviewing the evidence. Venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins said in court on Friday that former junior partner Ellen Pao had not performed well enough to be promoted. Pao's attorney countered that her reviews were positive until she complained about the gender discrimination she allegedly experienced. Pao, currently the interim CEO of Reddit, is suing Kleiner Perkins for gender discrimination, in a case that has rocked Silicon Valley. Fortune

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

• Leaning in. In its annual survey, Accenture asked 3,600 global professionals about the state of women in the workplace. For the first time, as many women as men said they asked for promotions in the prior twelve months. Marie Claire

• Pass rate. Recent research suggests that female U.S. senators pass more legislation than their male counterparts.   Quorum • Trash talk.  In this video, a 20-year-old UPenn student uses sports lingo to show the double standards men women face — and how dangerous those double standards can be.  Huffington Post

• "Don’t be shy." Susan Salka, CEO of AMN Healthcare, talked with The New York Times about leading a business, interviewing job candidates and advising recent graduates.   NY Times

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MPW INSIDER MONDAYS

Each week, Fortune asks our Insider Network — an online community of prominent people in business and beyond — for career and leadership advice. Here's some of the best of what we heard this week:

• Advice to new grads: Don't get a "real job" just yet. This is the kind of advice I wish I had gotten (or listened to, anyway) when upon graduating from college. "Instead of immediately diving into a career, I recommend that millennials get a low-key job that affords them the ability to save up money, and then take time off to travel," writes Maren Kate Donovan, CEO of Zirtual, a company that provides clients with "virtual assistants."  Fortune

• Don't believe the hype: Robots can't do everything. Stacia Pierce, CEO of Ultimate Lifestyle Enterprises, reminds us that there's no replacement for an actual human when it comes to good communication.   Fortune

• There's no such thing as a perfect job. Shocking, I know. But, according to Erin Ganju, co-founder and CEO of Room to Read, there is such a thing as the perfect company.  Fortune

ON MY RADAR

How a little-known Supreme Court case got women the right to vote  TIME

Can a stock-trader-turned-convict start a new life?  NY Times

The danger of exhausted employees  WSJ

Meet the BuzzFeed employee behind #TheDress  Digiday

Tiffany Thiessen devours fried chicken in Miami and lobster rolls in New York  NY Mag

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