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How a Taiwanese American turned the culture of Japan into an American makeup...
Over a lifetime, makeup can cost a woman $15,000 and up to two weeks of her life. Despite the high “makeup tax,” women who wear makeup are often rewarded with promotions, raises or bigger tips.But...
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On the ground in Mumbai with Across Women's Lives: Wax figures in Bandra
As the Across Women's Lives team travels the chaotic streets of Mumbai this week, meeting inspirational women and reportng on their feats of feminism, we'd like to give you a peek into the reporting...
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Most Bangladeshi garment workers are women, but their union leaders weren't....
Only 15 people can fit into the small room on the third floor of a brick-and-corrugated-tin building in Bangladesh’s capital, Dhaka. More people listen from a hallway just outside the room. They all...
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Why my fascination with 'jihadi brides' hits close to home
Until the stories about Syrian refugees fleeing to Europe pushed them off the front page, I could not stop reading the articles about the young western women who flirt with becoming Jihadist...
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Female students try to break the glass ceiling at Harvard's Hasty Pudding Club
Here’s a quiz: What private club boasts alumni including John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Teddy Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, Ted Kennedy, Jack Lemmon, National Lampoon co-founder Doug...
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This Mumbai couple waited to adopt a daughter: 'We just wanted a girl'
If I were running an adoption agency, I’d say Marco and Ayesha D'Souza have an ideal home for a child, but the they had to wait almost a year for a child to adopt. The reason? It's something that makes...
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#WhyLoiter reclaims public — and inner — space for Indian women
Don’t stay out after dark. Avoid empty streets, and never loiter around on the streets or in parks. Don’t invite trouble!These are the messages that every Indian girl hears growing up. Hanging out in...
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Indian women talk about street harassment
Six young Indian women opened up about their experiences with street harassment, or as it's known in India — Eve-teasing.Nirali Shah, Ishani Dasgupta, Kaneez Surka, Ahvanya Sharma, RJ Malishka and Lipi...
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Don't mess with me — that's the message behind a Mumbai artist's work
Jas Charanjiva is one of the central figures at a graphics art collaborative in the Bandra section of Mumbai. It’s called Kulture Shop, and it is a destination for the designs and work of artists here...
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She could have been a child bride like her sisters. But she became a coach...
To see boys and girls playing soccer together on a Sunday may not seem like a big deal. But it is: Co-ed sports of any kind are a remarkable sight in India.And it’s deliberately done here on this...
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This actor plays not one rapist but many — to help end gender violence
Ankur Vikal is best known to Western audiences as the evil gangster Maman in the 2008 movie “Slumdog Millionaire.” Lately he’s had an even more harrowing role as the only male actor in the stage play...
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Yazidi plan to 'rebaptize' women enslaved by ISIS is working ... sort of
Nour is more relaxed these days, though she still keeps her hands clasped tightly in her lap as she speaks and asked not to be identified by her real name. Nearly a year after being released from...
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Confronting gender disparity? Start with chores, these Indian teens say.
Standing before a Mumbai classroom packed with teenagers, Yojana Salunke begins her weekly one-hour lesson on a subject which many experts say is crucial to helping India address one of its biggest...
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Indian college women push back against curfews
For my first year in college, in Darjeeling, eastern India, I lived in a girls’ hostel on campus. If I remember correctly, our curfew was at 6 pm.We could stay out late occasionally, but only with...
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Ashley Judd to girls worldwide: We go from hurting to healing to helping
In northern Nigeria, where Elizabeth Williams is from, talking about sex with adults is "a no-go zone." So, she says, girls grow up in total ignorance, thinking that "if a man touches you, you'll...
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Callie Crossley: Confronting the Fiorina conundrum
Strike one for the sisterhood.There she was, the only woman in CNN’s Republican debate, standing strong among the ten male candidates. Carly Fiorina’s two debate performances catapulted her from near...
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The Pakistani film Dukhtar shows what a mother will sacrifice for her child
What lengths would a mother go to help her child? That's the central premise of the Pakistani film "Dukhtar," which means daughter in Urdu.The film was inspired by a news story of a woman in the tribal...
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Lost in the Hajj stampede was a pioneering journalist who united Christians...
In the crush of the Hajj crowd in Mina, Saudi Arabia last week, Nigeria lost a pioneering journalist and prominent women's rights activist.Hajiya Bilkisu Yusuf was beloved in West Africa and beyond for...
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Why young North Koreans are daring to wear skinny jeans
Would you wear skinny jeans if they were illegal? As it turns out, the answer is yes, at least for one young North Korean woman. Danbi and I are browsing through a South Korean market, when she stops...
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After seven years in the Dublin sex trade, Rachel Moran says prostitution is...
For seven years Rachel Moran was bought and sold on the streets of Dublin. She no longer uses the word "prostitute" to describe her former profession. It wasn't what she did; it was something that was...
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