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The 'Damsels of Design,' women who changed automotive history
For all of the horror that emerged from the WWII, there were some bright spots: With the men out fighting, women were brought into the workplace.In the mid 1950s, a visionary executive believed women...
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Inspired by US activists, Poland moves toward Europe's most restrictive...
Poland’s abortion policies are already some of the most restrictive in Europe — and now pro-life activists are pushing for a total ban there.If the Polish parliament gets a chance to vote on the...
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Get to know the 'Shadow Families' of Bahrain
Mia Alvar wrote nine unforgettable stories about migrants, exiles, immigrants and wanderers. The globe-trotting tales, collected in the book "In the Country," won the 2016 PEN award for debut fiction....
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A 1915 novel is now the blueprint for a real-life feminist utopia
“They had had no kings, and no priests and no aristocracies. They were sisters, and as they grew, they grew together — not by competition, but by united action.” This is how Charlotte Perkins Gilman...
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Abducted. Enslaved. In and out of the news for two years. The Chibok girls...
Two years after the Islamist group Boko Haram kidnapped 276 girls from a school in Chibok, Nigeria, the girls are still missing.On Thursday, however, we got our first glimpse of a few of them in a new...
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Government report reveals a pattern of sexual harassment at some US national...
For years, women in the US Forest Service and at some national parks have complained about a hostile work environment.Now, an investigation by the Inspector General of the Department of the Interior...
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These mothers lost their sons to ISIS. What have been their next steps?
"When you are pregnant you have pain and afterwards you have a baby that's there but when your baby died you have pain but are left with nothing." Saliha Ben Ali, 49, mother of 19-year-old Sabri Ben...
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Brazil's next first lady a 'beautiful, demure housewife'? Cue the memes.
A story in a Brazilian magazine this week is triggering serious ridicule, and a pretty great internet meme, because of the following message: The country’s next first lady will be a "beautiful, demure...
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This Nepali health care volunteer kept saving lives even after losing her own...
Editor's Note: Reporter Sonia Narang went back to follow-up on a health volunteer she profiled a few years ago for PRI's The World. The entire second floor of Bimala Parajuli's house toppled in the...
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Casting aside imposing summits, these women are scaling Bolivia's peaks in...
For years, Lydia Huayllas, 48, has worked as a cook at base camps and mountain-climbing refuges on the steep, glacial slopes of Huayna Potosi, a 19,974-foot Andean peak outside of La Paz, Bolivia.But...
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These images say a lot about the state of violence against women in Mexico
Tourists found dead. Video cameras filming under skirts. An attempt to take off a woman's underwear mid-stride. And a "pandemic" of femicide — all in Mexico.For these reasons and many others, a group...
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Periods aren't gross. Taxes on periods are.
Kiran Gandhi had been training a year for April 26, 2015. But that morning, her body plunged her into a physical and ethical quandary.It’s something every woman faces, whether on a mundane day or one...
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K-pop’s gross double standard for women
Korean pop music has a problem. It’s not that it isn’t doing well. In fact, according to geotagged Twitter data, K-pop is killing it in Tokyo, Bangkok and Kuala Lumpur, and it’s caught on in Saudi...
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Women are taking the lead in Nepal's earthquake recovery
April 25 marks one year since a massive 7.8-magnitude earthquake shook Nepal. In the immediate aftermath, I was sent to Nepal on behalf of the aid organization Plan International. As we look back on...
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They survived the earthquake. Now they're determined to keep their village...
Inside a small blue tent perched on a hill above the tiny village of Dadagaun in Nepal's Dolakha district, mothers and children line up to see a lone health worker seated at a wooden desk. There are...
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30 years after Chernobyl, these Ukrainian babushkas are still living on toxic...
Even if you weren't alive back then, you almost certainly know what happened 30 years ago this week — April 26, 1986.An explosion that day at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in northern Ukraine...
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Imprisoned for her work, this Iranian cartoonist is about to be freed —...
Iranian artist Atena Farghadani had been languishing in Evin Prison serving a 12-year-sentence for a 2014 cartoon she posted on Facebook that portrayed Iranian lawmakers as humans with the faces of...
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Quiz: What do you know about women's rights in Iran?
The Iran nuclear deal reached last year is expected to revive the economy of the Islamic Republic. However, whether it will lead to improvement in human rights, especially for Iranian women, remains a...
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Australian school official banned this film about kids of gay parents, but...
In August 2015, the Australian documentary "Gayby Baby," which follows the stories of four children raised in same-sex families, made the front page of Sydney's Daily Telegraph with the headline "Gay...
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With attitude: Images of women in punk, then and now
They say if you remember the '60s, you weren't really there. Remembering the '70s and '80s is a bit different: Maybe there are scars in noses, from where those safety pins used to be.For punks back...
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