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In Istanbul, outrage over Zara not paying garment workers
In Istanbul, shoppers at the popular retailer, Zara, were recently in for a shocking surprise. Attached to some of the clothing were tags that read, "I made this item you are going to buy, but I didn't...
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France has plunged into a struggle over gender-neutral language
Hands clasped behind her back, Madame Subbiah strode among our fourth-grade ranks with Napoleonic aplomb, reciting verses from French poems of old, while we, her sweaty-palmed pupils, transcribed her...
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At pop-up eatery in Canada, HIV education is on the menu
"Think you can get HIV from food? Bite me." That was just one of the slogans on aprons worn by 14 chefs at Canada's first and only pop-up HIV eatery, held earlier this month in Toronto. For two days,...
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Miss Peru contestants say their viral anti-violence protest was only the...
During this year’s Miss Peru pageant, the 23 contestants made a collective decision to take a stand against the violence faced by women in their country, and around the world.Rather than provide their...
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Poll: For women at work, harassment complaints fall on deaf ears
“Oh, what a jerk, just ignore him.”That was the advice a colleague gave to Alexandria Chang about 13 years ago. At the time, Chang was in her mid-20s and was a preschool teacher at a private school...
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'For My Ayeeyo': Two young women learn Somali poetry from a distance
Amal Hussein and Hamdi Mohamed have a lot in common. Both were born in Kenya, where their parents had fled as refugees from Somalia’s civil war, and both came to Boston when they were just a few years...
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Eve Ewing, creative queen of Chicago
Eve Ewing defies simple categorization: she’s a writer, an artist, an educator, a Twitter celebrity and a Harvard-trained sociologist. Her new book, “Electric Arches,” showcases all of the above.It’s a...
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Lessons for Hollywood's women from tomato pickers in Florida
Her workplace was not a safe place, and despite being a teenager, Katalina knew this for certain. It didn’t feel OK that her bosses touched her, said sexual things and propositioned her constantly. But...
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This piece of jewelry is actually an alarm
According to RAINN, the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network, one in every six American women will be the victim of an attempted or completed rape at some point in her lifetime. Yasmine Mustafa...
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Cambodia’s female deminers clean the country of war’s deadly reminders
When Meas Seiha, a 42-year-old farmer, left his home on that cloudy day in 2016 to work on his fields in the Samlout village of Cambodia’s Battambang Province, he had no idea how his life would...
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An Israeli woman traveled to the West Bank so she could be sure she’d have a boy
Faten, 30, lives in a big house perched on a hill in the Arab-Israeli city of Umm al-Fahm, about 12 miles northwest of Jenin.She has three young daughters — on this spring day, they are all dressed in...
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A lack of clean and safe toilets leaves women vulnerable to rape and attacks
We take toilets for granted in the United States. We usually have access to safe facilities when we need it.So, imagine being afraid every time you need to use the toilet. Afraid of being attacked or...
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Unmeasured and unfunded: Lack of data hinders burn prevention and care
Five years ago, in a village in south-central Nepal, 8-year-old Saraswoti Shrestha stumbled into a pot of oil heating on the open-fire stove in the middle of her family’s one-room home.She regained...
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Day care and mud guards: How health officials are building a firewall against...
What’s the best treatment for burns? Prevention.That’s the answer you’ll get from most health care providers in rich and poor countries alike. But in poor countries, there’s little or no funding for...
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In Thailand, kickboxing is becoming more popular with women. Chiang Mai is at...
In northern Thailand, by the side of a backcountry road winding through rice paddies, there is the curious sight of a boxing ring and row of punching bags. A poster hanging above the ring features the...
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Singing in Choctaw, Samantha Crain aims to create new traditions
“So much of its original identity is gone because of the Christianization that has happened. If you look around my house, every book that says Choctaw on it, anything about songs … it’s just Christian...
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Bio shows how Josephine Baker 'shattered notions' of black artistry
In 1925 Josephine Baker debuted in an all-black American musical revue (“La Revue Nègre”) in Paris. The 19-year-old singer and dancer from St. Louis became an overnight sensation.“On that evening, she...
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Denmark's new feminist party declares 'Out with the racists! In with the...
In an illustrated campaign poster hanging in Sankt Hans Torv in Copenhagen, Muneeza Rosendahl stands like a cartoon superhero brandishing a broom midswing, sweeping dust toward an open door.The dust,...
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Her job at the mill bought her a new, better life
In Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, people like to tell a story about how in the middle of the summer, it used to snow. The white flakes would swirl around and stick to your hair and your car and your...
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Wear and Tear series: The women who make our clothes
Arati Baladas, a 20-year-old Bangladeshi woman, lost her mother and her right foot when Rana Plaza collapsed around her in 2013. For Acree Bell Lassiter, now 89, being a creeler, replacing empty spools...
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