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For International Women's Day, we're spotlighting women and movements that have made an impact around the globe.
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Harris County, Texas, took a giant step toward representation this month when it sat 19 black women judges to the bench.
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They broke taboos and stereotypes around the world. They include the co-recipient of this year's Nobel Peace Prize, a disability activist — and a 101-year-old runner.
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The reasons range from "honor killings" to dowry disputes, according to an analysis of female homicides around the globe.
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A quarter of the 445 publicly traded companies in California don't have any women on their boards. Opponents say the law is unconstitutional and confusing for companies incorporated in other states.
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You wouldn't know it by looking at her but, according to her mother, Sandra Lobaina was a biter. “I bit her," said Lobaina, smiling, when asked to explain…
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Last week, the new President of Colombia, Iván Duque, swore in his vice president, Marta Lucía Ramírez.She is Colombia’s first female vice…
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The Trump adminstration's goal is to establish a firewall between taxpayers and health care providers who might give women abortion information. Critics call the proposed changes a "gag rule."
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Miami nightlife runs on music and DJs are the maestros of that scene. It’s an industry heavily represented by men. But a group of women in a DJ class…
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There’s a village in rural Guatemala where women are selling hand-sewn reusable menstrual pads. It’s a product medical experts say is necessary in some...
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After they lose access to high school sports, young women — especially young women of color — generally get less exercise than they should, a study suggests, and far less exercise than young men get.
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She calls herself an “anomaly” in public radio.Tanzina Vega, the new host of the public radio program “The Takeaway,” says she knows that the country's…