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She put five sports in a hat and pulled out soccer ... the rest is history
When Leslie Osborne was growing up in Wisconsin, she tried her hand at many sports. After she turned 14, her parents decided to simplify things and had her pick one sport out of a hat. "It's still a...
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The menstruation-education connection
For many girls around the world, menstrual health and hygiene issues are obstacles to education. In some places, girls stay home from school during their periods. In others, menstruating women are...
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In Iran, where the women school the men on surfing
When you think of Iran, you don't necessarily think "women surfing." But one French woman does. In 2010, Marion Poizeau first visited the coastal area of Baluchistan/Chabahar, an Iranian province on...
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Surf's up...but in Iran? A talk with filmmaker Marion Poizeau
French filmmaker and avid surfer Marion Poizeau joined forces with two Iranian women athletes in 2013 to help introduce surfing to Iran. We asked her to tell us more about her experience teaching the...
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Women will be extinct in the computer science world if this trend continues
Today, computer and information technology is advancing faster than at any time in human history. Tons of money is being invested into and earned from the industry. Technology giants like Google,...
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Making 'The Beautiful Game' even more beautiful for these young Nicaraguans
It’s rare to see young women or girls playing organized sports in rural Nicaragua because they have so many responsibilities: taking care of younger siblings, gathering firewood, cooking, and cleaning....
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This Nigerian singer has a message for Boko Haram
Nneka is a young singer from Nigeria and has her own brave response to guns and violence. The song is "Pray for You." She wrote it about the presence of Boko Haram in Nigeria. Boko Haram is a militant...
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How is menstruation connected to cattle infertility? It isn't
In many parts of the world, a culture of shame exists around the topic of menstruation, leaving many girls unclear about the connection between menstruation and reproduction. People who educate women...
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These girls redefine what it means to play like a girl. And they're killing it
Being a girl who loves sports isn't always easy. But that's not stopping 8-year-old Evnika Saadvakass from Kazakhstan, who became a YouTube sensation two years ago. More than three million viewers have...
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Soccer Without Borders Nicaragua breaks the grass ceiling
Hassell Chavez is a coach and adviser at Soccer Without Borders in Granada, Nicaragua.She first joined Soccer Without Borders as a participant, playing soccer for the first time. She quickly earned the...
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Merrill Garbus of tUnE-yArDs: 'Play what you want to hear'
For the past six years, Merrill Garbus has been making her genre-defying music under the name tUnE-yArDs.Her sound is intricate, loud and unique: Songs feature ukulele, horns and electronic samples,...
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Getting a woman on the $10 was a victory, but an underwhelming one
They wanted to oust Jackson, but they got Hamilton instead.The US Treasury Department has announced it will put a woman on a newly designed $10 bill, replacing Alexander Hamilton. The design of the new...
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These Mexican sisters give Metallica a run for their money
Dany (15), Paulina (13) and Alejandra (9) have given metal a makeover. The three sisters from Monterrey play guitar, drums and bass respectively. They call their band The Warning, and their covers of...
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A testimony to the power of female teachers
As part of our week-long Teach Her series on women's access to education worldwide, we've put a call out for lessons learned from female teachers.We asked, "What's the coolest or most useful lesson a...
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From quidditch in California to karate in Cairo, women are winning — join...
We asked you for photos of yourselves getting active and, ladies, you did not dissapoint.Who knew we had quidditch playing readers? Aerial yoginis? Tough mudders? We're impressed. Check out some of the...
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Angélique Kidjo defied the school of hard knocks to become the knock-out...
Angélique Kidjo has won a lot more than the Grammy (twice): she was named by The Guardian as one of the 100 most inspiring women in the world, and the BBC listed her as one of 50 African icons. She has...
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'Every time I hold a drum...I feel like happiness is going to kill me'
My name is Kasiva Mutua — I’m a percussionist, a drummer. Where I come from, it was a taboo for a woman to play drums or percussion. It was so serious that a woman could not even go near the space...
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Women still face a tough time in the hallowed halls of Japan's prestigious...
Japan has one of the lowest rates of working women in the developed world. Economists forecast that the country’s lackluster GDP could jump by 12.5 percent if more women joined the workforce. So the...
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'Girls Rock Camp saved my life'
I didn’t mean to find myself in the middle of a revolution.I had just finished grad school and was still relatively new to LA, looking for something to plug into and make some new friends. And I found...
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You think coerced marriages aren't a problem for women in the US? Think again
The dozens of women piling into roller coasters together at Six Flags amusement park in New Jersey one recent spring day didn't all speak the same language. But they shared another bond — each one had...
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