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The life and myths of Lyudmila Pavlichenko, Soviet Russia's deadliest sniper
Lyudmila Pavlichenko, history’s deadliest female sniper, is considered to be a Soviet propaganda myth by some, including some people in Russia. The divorced teenage mother from the tiny Ukrainian town...
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Muslim women are speaking out against abuse with #MosqueMeToo
Nearly 2 million Muslims take part in the pilgrimage to Mecca each year. Egyptian journalist and author Mona Eltahawy first participated in the five-day pilgrimage when she was a teenager and...
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How a soldier gets ready for deployment
First Lt. Erica MacSwan was just 7 years old when 9/11 happened. Yet, she has vivid memories of it.Her family lived in New Hampshire at the time. Her dad, who worked for IBM, commuted to New York City...
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Meet the dress history expert outfitting Valencia for the Las Fallas festival
Every year on March 19, the coastal city of Valencia, Spain, explodes with close to 400 fireworks and then twice the number of fires. The burning of the niñots — figurines made of Styrofoam, cardboard,...
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In the #MeToo era, young conservative women look for their spot
Jami Averwater called her father during the second week of law school with a dilemma — she couldn't identify a single other Republican in her classroom.When she did acknowledge she was a Republican,...
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How do you talk about gender when the words ‘simply don’t exist’ in your...
Thoughtful and eloquent, Emellia Shariff is rarely at a loss for words. But finding the right ones is a daily challenge in her quest to get Malaysians talking about gender.The 28-year-old lawyer...
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A British 'Mx.' tape
The UK is obsessed with honorifics.Remember, this is the land of barons, earls, ladies, sirs and the ultimate, HRH — "Her Royal Highness." But even if you can't claim HRH, selecting "Mr." or "Mrs." or...
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Kurdish troops fight for freedom — and women's equality — on battlegrounds...
Editor's note: A 26-year-old British woman, Anna Campbell, has been killed in Syria. Her Kurdish comrades say she died fighting the Turks, who are trying to take over an autonomous Kurdish enclave in...
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Meet Doña Luz Jiménez, the forgotten indigenous woman at the heart of...
If you’ve ever been to Mexico City, you’ve likely encountered Luz Jiménez, though chances are you don’t know it.Jiménez, a Nahua woman from humble origins, posed for many of the greats of the Mexican...
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Over 100 Nigerian girls kidnapped by Boko Haram return home
Boko Haram has released nearly all of the 110 schoolgirls they kidnapped in Nigeria last month.Early Wednesday morning, militants drove several trucks full of students into the town of Dapchi, where...
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Woman-led puppet theater brings health education to Burmese villages
In the play, a puppet starts to offer a cigarette to a friend but his cough gets the better of him, which makes his voice a bit funny-sounding — eliciting peals of laughter from a roomful of a hundred...
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Women in the global aid sector are saying #AidToo
There’s been a flurry of stories lately about sexual misconduct in the international aid community. Oxfam workers paying for sex in Haiti. UN peacekeepers assaulting the people they’re supposed to be...
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Will Saudi women drive once ban is lifted? US car companies want to find out.
Sept. 26, 2017, is a day many women in Saudi Arabia will always remember.It's the day when King Salman bin Abdulaziz al-Saud issued a decree granting women the right to drive. The news was seen as a...
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The three-letter word that rocked a nation
In 2012, a little known Swedish press published a children’s book that sparked a nationwide debate. The debate wasn’t about the plot of the book or the pictures but concerned a three-letter word used...
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How English-language pronouns are taught around the world
The teacher holds up a pen in the first lesson and says, “It’s my pen.” The students, English language learners who could be any age from preschool to pensioner and from any country in the world, echo,...
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Meet Pegg, a gender-neutral robot assistant
The majority of us use artificial intelligence every day — without even realizing it. Like when Google predicts your search phrase or you issue a command to Siri or you scroll through ads and articles...
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Senegalese women turn to exporting fish in spite of local shortages
On a mild February afternoon in Yoff, one of Dakar’s oldest fishing quarters, the beach is abuzz with activity. Fishermen in army-green waterproof gear haul wood-carved boats ashore to the sound of...
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New book sheds light on overlooked women pioneers who paved the way for...
Author Claire Evans says over the past few years her gender has made her feel slightly disconnected from the technology that has connected people since its creation: the internet. “I had always felt...
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As opioids land more women in prison, Ohio finds alternative treatments
It’s a chilly March afternoon in Marysville, Ohio, and I’m riding around on a golf cart with Clara Golding Kent, the public information officer for the Ohio Reformatory for Women. It’s right after...
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There are more women in prison than ever before
The substances are different: in Thailand, it’s meth. In Ohio, opioids. In Mexico, women help their husbands, boyfriends and fathers run their drug businesses peddling pills, crack, heroin.But all over...
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