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Women worldwide react to Clinton's defeat
For years now, Hillary Clinton has ranked as one of the most famous and influential women in the world ― winning fans among the world’s female leaders for her advocacy of global feminism and her work...
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Why leaving women out of Trump’s cabinet isn’t just wrong — it’s dangerous
When Justin Trudeau was elected prime minister of Canada and appointed a precedent-shattering 50-50 ratio of men and women to his cabinet, his pithy comment was, “It’s 2015.” Under Donald Trump's...
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This Yazidi woman escaped her ISIS captors in Mosul, but had to leave her...
Early one morning in November 2015, Nouhad put on a solid black niqab — only her eyes showing — and snuck out of the house in Mosul were she had been held captive for more than a year.“The ISIS man...
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Sweden opens a hotline to report mansplaining
Mansplaining. By now you've probably had it 'splained to you. But just in case, here's Swedish gender expert Christina Knight on the subject:"I think often it's experienced as a sort of condescending...
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How we can carry Thanksgiving forward into the rest of our political year
“The political chasm is unbridgeable.”“I don’t know how we’ll ever unite our country.”“The hatred incited in this election is poison, and there’s no end in sight.”We hear this sense of hopelessness...
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India's crisis over bank notes hits women especially hard
On the evening of Nov. 8, after neighborhood shops had closed and ATMs had locked up, the prime minister of India announced that 500 and 1,000 rupee currency notes would no longer be legal tender,...
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For one Afghan teenage girl, the refugee trail is as dangerous as the war...
Bravery has consequences, and 16-year-old Hoor is paying the price.She escaped a forced marriage in Afghanistan, defied deportation in Iran and crossed the border into Turkey with smugglers, and...
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Hey Donald Trump — here's what women around the world need your help with
Last month, Across Women's Lives and The World asked audiences: "If you had $1 billion to spend on women in your country, what would you do?"It was part of our Balance of Power series on the...
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A cross-generational group of US women is planning a nationwide strike...
This isn’t Ann Massaro’s first foray into activism — the 68-year-old from Connecticut has been protesting and organizing her entire life. But she sees the election of Donald Trump as her biggest cause...
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Protesters at Standing Rock celebrate an unexpected victory
By now, you've probably heard the news out of North Dakota. After many months of protests — and with tensions mounting — the Army Corp of Engineers announced the Dakota Access Pipeline would not, for...
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A program that pays African migrants to leave Israel is breaking up families
The Israeli government offers cash and free flights to African asylum seekers who agree to return home or fly to other African countries — an incentive to get them to leave. The measure is bringing...
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A North Dakota blizzard hits the Standing Rock protest camp hard
Protesters at the Standing Rock Camp in North Dakota spent Sunday evening celebrating: The Army Corps of Engineers said it wouldn't give permission for the Dakota Access Pipeline to run under the...
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In South Korea, parents are increasingly saying, 'we hope for a girl'
In South Korea, there’s a new saying: “To have two daughters wins you a gold medal.” But this wasn’t the case a single generation ago, when couples would go to great lengths to conceive a son. A...
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Deadly Turkish school fire reveals the challenges girls face in getting an...
A fire at a Turkish girls dormitory that killed 11 students in late November has cracked open a debate in Turkey about controversial approaches to educating girls in rural areas, and whether the...
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This interpreter is helping get justice for indigenous women raped and...
This month marks two decades since the signing of the Guatemalan peace accords, which ended a 36-year-old civil war.Some 200,000 people were killed in that war, many more tortured and raped. In recent...
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This Eritrean woman found out her husband had abandoned her when she couldn't...
In a one-room apartment in south Tel Aviv, Brkitay Gebru shares a bed with her two sons. On a recent afternoon she was so tired she didn’t bother telling 3-year-old Netanael to stop jumping on the...
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Oklahoma's Native tribes are trying to fill a gap in sex ed left by the...
On a rainy Wednesday afternoon, four American Indian teenagers are gathered in a nondescript building along rural Okmulgee, Oklahoma's main street. As the headquarters of the Muscogee Creek Nation,...
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Turkey's fraught history with headscarves
In a café at Istanbul Arel University, a group of friends — secular and religious, Kurdish and Turkish — gather to talk about their country’s changing identity. One topic of discussion among two of the...
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Stark numbers show who gets trolled the most online. See for yourself.
Have you ever been hacked, trolled on social media or experienced other forms of online harassment? If the answer is yes, you share the same experience with almost half of American internet users.But...
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These early female astronomers shattered the 'glass universe'
Looking up at the night sky, we know that a star’s brightness can tell us something about how far away it is, and even what it’s made of. But how do we know that?As it turns out, our system for...
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