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"My participation in the march as an Amazonian woman is to praise our rights and violence worldwide." Portrait of Josefina Tunki, the ex-Executive President of the Government Council of the Shuar Arutam People in Puyo, Ecuador, March 8, 2024.

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  • World

Ecuadorian Indigenous Women on why they march

Women from different Indigenous nationalities traveled from their territories to Puyo, Ecuador on March 8 to march through the city's streets as they do every year on International Women's Day

March 16, 2024
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  • Tatiana Lopez
Retrato de Josefina Tunki, ex-presidenta ejecutiva del Consejo de Gobierno del Pueblo Shuar Arutam. "Mi participación en la marcha como mujer amazónica es para enaltecer nuestros derechos, violencias a nivel mundial", lee el texto escrito por Tunki.

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  • World

Razones por la que mujeres indígenas Ecuatorianas marchan en 8M

Mujeres de diferentes nacionalidades indígenas viajaron desde sus territorios a Puyo, Ecuador, para marchar por las calles de la ciudad como lo hacen cada año en el Día Internacional de la Mujer.

March 16, 2024
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  • Tatiana Lopez
Spectators wait for the start of a bullfight at the Plaza México, in Mexico City, Jan. 28. Bullfighting returned to Mexico City after the Supreme Court of Justice overturned a 2022 ban that prevented these events from taking place in the capital.

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  • Latin America

Mexico's female matadors return to the world's largest bullring

A glimpse at the world of women bullfighters in Mexico City, as the spectacle makes its return two years after a judge banned it — generating excitement from fans and criticism over animal cruelty.

March 09, 2024
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  • Emily Green
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  • News

Lawmakers and activists push to eliminate sales tax on menstrual products

A group of lawmakers and activists are pushing to remove sales tax on menstrual products in Georgia. 

January 19, 2024
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  • Sarah Kallis
This photo provided by the North Korean government, North Korean women attend the National Mothers' Meeting in Pyongyang, North Korea on Dec. 3, 2023. The content of this image is as provided and cannot be independently verified.

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  • Asia

North Korea confronts a modern-day challenge: a declining population

In a rare admission, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un says his country's birth rate is too low. Experts see no working solution for a looming population crisis.

December 13, 2023
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  • Se Eun Gong
Host Pat Mitchell and Ava DuVernay speak at TEDWomen in Atlanta on Oct. 11, 2023.

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  • News

TEDWomen conference showcases Georgia leaders, Atlanta's appeal to global audience

The three-day event at Atlanta's Woodruff Arts Center included dozens of speakers and topics ranging from human rights to entrepreneurship, artificial intelligence, hair sculpting and fireflies.

October 16, 2023
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  • Kristi York Wooten
The 2023 Nobel Prize in Economics was awarded to Harvard University economist Claudia Goldin. The committee cited her research on generations of women in the labor market.

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  • Economy

Economics Nobel Prize goes to Claudia Goldin, an expert on women at work

Harvard University's Claudia Goldin has won the 2023 Nobel Prize in Economics for her research on women in the labor market. She studies the causes of the persistent pay gap between men and women.

October 09, 2023
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  • Scott Horsley
These Rwandan women were imprisoned for having abortions, before they were pardoned and released in 2019. From left: Nyiramahirwe Epiphanie, 26, was sentenced to 15 years. Akingeneye Theopiste was sentenced to 10 years. Akimanizanye Florentine was sentenced to 10 years. Mushimiyimana Anjerike, 29, served more than five years for inducing an abortion using pills she says she bought at a pharmacy.

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  • Global Health

These Rwandan women were sent to jail for having an abortion. Now free, they speak out

They were sentenced for up to 10 years for violating anti-abortion laws. Some say their pregnancy was a result of rape. Rwanda has now liberalized its abortion laws and pardoned hundreds of the women.

September 03, 2023
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  • Sarah McCammon
Rasheeda speaks during an interview with the Associated Press for the 50th anniversary of hip-hop, on Thursday, June 29, 2023 in Atlanta.

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  • Music

Women battle misogyny to send hip-hop spinning in a new direction

Female rappers have been a part of hip-hop since its debut. At hip-hop's 50th anniversary, female rappers are taking their moment to shine – while still demanding respect and facing decades-old challenges.

August 11, 2023
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  • Associated Press

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  • News

Jobs often held by women are more vulnerable to AI replacement, study says

A recent study by McKinsey finds women are one and a half times more likely to be impacted by artificial intelligence job replacement.

August 10, 2023
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  • Sarah Kallis
Melinda French Gates is funding efforts to elect more women to public office through her company, <a href="https://www.pivotalventures.org/">Pivotal Ventures</a>.

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  • Elections

Melinda French Gates calls for women's parity in political leadership

Melinda French Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, is funding efforts to elect more women to public office through her company, Pivotal Ventures.

July 26, 2023
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  • Olivia Hampton
Pregnant woman touching her belly

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  • News

U.S. Reps. Carter and Bishop introduce bill to combat maternal mortality

The lawmakers collaborated on the bipartisan Healthy Mothers and Healthy Babies Act, which was introduced in Congress Friday.

July 17, 2023
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  • Sarah Kallis
An Afghan beautician applies makeup to a client at a beauty salon in Mazar-i-Sharif.

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  • Global Health

'I am crying at my salon': Taliban orders Kabul beauty parlors to shut down

All beauty salons in Kabul must close by the end of July. These businesses are one of the few places where women can work and congregate under the Taliban regime.

July 14, 2023
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  • FAZELMINALLAH QAZIZAI and
  • Diaa Hadid
A woman walks past beauty salons with window decorations that have been defaced in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Sept. 12, 2021.

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  • Asia

The Taliban say they are outlawing women's beauty salons in Afghanistan

The announcement is the latest curb on the rights and freedoms of Afghan women and girls, following edicts barring them from education, public spaces and most forms of employment.

July 05, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
A group of young women from the Awa people in Brazil hold their bows and arrows as they return from a hunt. A new reexamination of ethnographic studies finds female hunters are common in hunter-gatherer societies.

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  • Global Health

Men are hunters, women are gatherers. That was the assumption. A new study upends it.

The implications are potentially enormous, says history professor Kimberly Hamlin: "The myth that man is the hunter and woman is the gatherer ... naturalizes the inferiority of women."

July 01, 2023
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  • Nurith Aizenman
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