Around the world, women face legal and justice systems that treat them as lesser citizens. Their testimony in court may equal half a man’s, or…
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Innovation can be as simple as recycling discarded junk into high-value crafts, or as complex as building new computer applications that help prevent…
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As climate change, population growth, and urbanization march forward, women will feel their impact in disproportionate and unforeseen ways. Deeply…
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On Oct. 25, 2010, at 2:25 p.m., Icelandic women walked out of their workplaces en masse. Women in Iceland earn two thirds of men’s wages, on…
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When do media help to advance women—and when do they set women back?
Nearly every day, consumers are faced with new, sometimes alarming…
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Her daughter was kidnapped in 2002 and sold to sex traffickers; in her honor this Argentine mother fights against sex slavery through her Maria…
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She rose above a childhood of poverty and abject hunger to become Uganda’s national chess champion and a contender in the World Chess Olympiad.
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