Women are suing Johnson & Johnson over talcum powder
Think talcum powder and many of us picture chortling babies and smiling mothers changing diapers. Nothing seems more safe and wholesome. And many women use talc products daily, as well, for feminine...
View ArticleLife inside a giant tampon suit: Sort of a quilt, but more like tampon
If you want to start a public debate on gender inequality and social injustice there are a number of ways of doing so. But in Australia a surprisingly effective tactic involves dressing up as a giant...
View ArticleNetflix documentary explores the choices made by the stars behind Internet...
Consider this: Netflix is the single biggest driver of internet bandwidth, accounting for over one-third of all downstream usage during prime time hours.But if we step away from single companies and...
View ArticleDoes France's 'burqa ban' protect — or persecute?
Rayhana, who just goes by her first name, is an actress, playwright and a filmmaker, in Paris.She points to a group of her characters, sketched out in pencil, taped to the wall. The movie she’s working...
View ArticleHow a Texas legal aid lawyer is bringing kidnapped children home from Mexico
Five years ago on Valentine’s Day, Carmen Avendaño’s husband told her he was taking their three kids to the mall to get her son some sneakers. Instead he drove them across the bridge to Mexico, about a...
View ArticleChina now targeting moms of Tiananmen victims to erase memory of its bloody...
First, China killed hundreds of their children in the Tiananmen Massacre. Now, 26 years later, Beijing is going after the now-elderly mothers.Despite house arrests and intimidation, the Tiananmen...
View ArticleIsrael says A-WA — "Yes!" — to singing Yemeni sisters
Three musically-talented sisters from Israel have formed a band that’s gaining a following in the Muslim world.They’ve unearthed ancient Yemenite melodies, and have combined them with irresistible...
View ArticleDon't worry: The world's best female soccer players have been 'sex-tested'
Here’s something you might not know about FIFA and the Women's World Cup that gets underway on Saturday in Edmonton, Alberta.Before taking part in the tournament, all the players have to prove to FIFA,...
View ArticleZanzibar's 'Solar Mamas' flip the switch on rural homes, gender roles
Take a step back from Zanzibar’s white sand beaches and big hotels and you’re in a very different world. One where the island’s dusty, inland villages largely go dark once the sun sets. This is when...
View ArticleThe Nazis stopped her. For a while. But she got her medical degree — at age 102
Imagine having to study up on research that you did 77 years ago.On June 9, Inge Rapoport officially gets her medical degree in Germany. And it's been a long time coming.Dr. Rapoport is 102 years old....
View ArticleTwitter reacts: Despite being a man, Indian PM Modi manages to patronize a woman
During a speech at Dhaka University this weekend, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi celebrated Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's commitment to wiping out terrorism. What began as a seemingly...
View ArticleOnce forced to study in secret, this Indian professor inspires a generation...
My mother’s cousin, Rama Arora, is the first and still the only woman to teach at a college in the small desert town of Jaisalmer, India. The fact that it’s a women’s college says a lot about the...
View ArticleNo place like home: A global exploration of violence between partners
In Sweden it’s 28 percent. In Nicaragua, 29. In Uganda it’s 59 percent.Whether you call it “domestic violence,” “partner violence” or “intimate partner violence” there is one key reality: It’s...
View ArticleHank Green honors the woman who taught him 'School wasn't about getting an...
We know it's true: teachers change lives. And it's also true that in many parts of the world, the majority of teachers are women.All next week (June 15-19), as part of Across Women's Lives, we're...
View ArticleThe promise of the Arab Spring inspired these women to stand up, despite the...
On December 18, 2010, the people of Tunisia began a revolution that spread across the Arab world — a movement that has become known as the Arab Spring.From Syria to Egypt and from Libya to Yemen,...
View ArticleDiving with the last generation of Korea’s Mermaids
I’m on a boat with a group of Korean grandmothers — but it’s not a cruise ship and there’s no shuffleboard in sight. It’s a motorboat and these elderly ladies are sporting wetsuits and goggles. They’re...
View ArticleThat time I tried out for 'America's Next Top Model'
She was taken in by cultists. Hit on by a guy while wearing a Jabba The Hutt costume in Las Vegas. And here, in this excerpt from "A Field Guide To Awkward Silences," tried out for "America's Top...
View ArticleWhy can't men be mermaids in South Korea? Reporter Heidi Shin explains
Reporter Heidi Shin spent time with the last generation of mermaids, or haeynyos, off South Korea's Jeju Island. We asked her to tell us more about her experience with these amazing women divers. The...
View ArticleA Nobel laureate's sexist remark sparks a conversation about bias against...
A sexist remark by Nobel laureate Tim Hunt provoked a swift reaction from scientists — men and women alike — around the globe. Later Hunt offered an apology, but by then the discussion had taken off,...
View ArticleGhana's 'carry girls' strive to be somebody, earning tips to pay school fees...
Getting groceries in Accra can be an ordeal. The best deals are in the heart of the city, in a maze of markets so cramped you have to walk through single file. It's hot and noisy, you’re trying not to...
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