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Faye Orlove finds 'goddesses' among celebrities — and enshrines them in her art
Hollywood-based illustrator and director Faye Orlove is enchanted with portraiture.Whether it's her Celebrity Goddess Tarot Cards featuring everyone from Malala Yousafzai as The Moon to Taylor Swift as...
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Chart: The alarming rise in maternal mortality in the US
Number 8.That's the ranking of the US in the latest Human Development report by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP). But in terms of gender equality, the survey finds, the US is Number 55....
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In Prague, two new mothers harnessed the power of play and started a business
Ever since she had her first child, Prague's Andrea Janoudová has found herself enveloped in play. After years of focusing on career and the bottom line, here she was, thinking freely and creatively...
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Callie Crossley: 'I cry for them'
Two stories now about power, rape, and credibility. Jarring, I know, against the backdrop of a festive holiday season. But shocking scandals don’t check the calendar.Former police officer Daniel...
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Should you make 'doing less housework' your New Year's resolution? This...
Sometimes you can just look around you and tell whether, just maybe, you might put more time than others in unpaid work like housework.For many of us, hours of toil for no money could be hurting our...
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India lowers the age at which suspects can be tried as adults
The Indian Parliament approved a controversial bill that allows adolescents as young as 16 to be tried as adults for committing “heinous crimes.”The bill was a direct result of widespread public...
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This bank hired its first female employee, and now women line up to open...
Across India, only 43 percent of women have bank accounts and only 10 percent of women are able to save money at a bank, according to a recent World Bank study. But that’s slowly starting to change as...
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Just like that: As number of widows grow, widowhood is changing in Nepal
Bishnu Pande is 21, with a soft, low voice like a cello.As we talk in the garden near her house, her 18-month-old daughter Ayusha is playing nearby. Bishnu is telling me how she met Ayusha's father....
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Finally, Japan delivers definitive apology to South Korea for 'Comfort Women'
They’ve been called "comfort women" — they’ve also been called sex slaves. Their average age now is 89.On Monday, after decades of discussion, the governments of Japan and South Korea reached a...
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The US has a forced child marriage problem, too
When examining the issue of forced child marriage, it's common practice for human rights advocates to look at developing countries. After all, one third of girls in the developing world are married...
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In the US, I'm too skinny to be a plus size model. In Korea, I'm a fat woman.
In the United States, Kim Gee-yang would be considered curvy, but in South Korea, she says people just see her as a “fat woman.”The 29-year old is 5-foot-5 and weighs 154 pounds. She says Korean women...
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8 depressing/uplifting things we learned about women this year
Here's a gentle reminder: The current world population is around 7,350,000,000 and women make up 49.6 percent of it.And that's it. Aside from that 50/50 split, women around the world don't enjoy the...
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Meet some women from around the world who really inspired us this year
This year, our Across Women's Lives team reported on women and girls around the world working toward equal rights and positive change in their communities.In India, we met women fighting against...
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Widowhood hard to transcend in tradition-bound Nepal
Every winter, when Nepal is dry and cold and the Annapurna Mountains are white on the horizon, I spend a month or two living with Harimaya Subedi in her three-room mud and stone house. I call her...
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Could Russia be the first nation to send a woman to the Moon?
Deep space travel has always been something of a Russian specialty — at least the simulated kind. The Russian space agency has been testing the effects of deep space on its cosmonauts since the Soviet...
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Ghana’s market women were once so powerful they were targeted by the military
Ghana is one of only a handful of places where women are more likely to start businesses than men. There are corporate-feeling malls and glossy supermarkets popping up all over the West African...
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Muthoni the Drummer Queen rules Kenya's music scene
When Muthoni Ndonga first got into music, it wasn’t to become “the Drummer Queen,” as she’s now known, or “one of the most successful event organizers in Kenya,” or even “boss lady.”It was to get a...
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After a fracas over French 'male-only' prize for graphic novelists, here are...
Organizers of a prestigious international award for comic book art are backtracking after publishing a list of 30 nominees — zero percent of which were women. The ensuing uproar, in which 12 male...
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Can we make a little room for World War II's female pilots in Arlington...
Erin Miller describes herself as "the proud granddaughter of a World War II pilot WASP."WASP stands for Women Airforce Service Pilots. They flew non-combat missions during the war, to free up male...
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Filipina beauty queens' fight for trans rights is focus of new series looking...
Today, most people can agree that a “woman’s place” is wherever she wants to be.However, in a world predominantly controlled by men, whether in the workplace, in the media, or on the public streets,...
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