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Women voters expected to play significant role in India’s general election

Politics

A multiweek general election is underway in India and more women are taking part in it than ever before. Nearly half of the electorate is expected to be female. The country’s political parties are now running campaign ads targeted toward women to win over this crucial voting bloc.

A view of Paris, France, with the iconic Eiffel Tower in the distance.

20 years after France’s hijab ban, the issue remains divisive

Women & Gender
Wafaa Mustafa was married to American ISIS fighter Russell Dennison.

‘We have no future’: A Syrian woman speaks about her life with an American ISIS member

Shadow of ISIS
Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and Amb. Wendy Sherman speaking at Wellesley College.

Madeleine Albright: ‘Many of the best diplomats are women’

Conflict
A girl attends her first class at a school in Hazema in north Raqqa, Syria.

In Syria, all girls want is safety and school

Conflict
Women on the street

These Indian women said they could protect their local forests better than the men in their village. The men agreed.

Environment

Empowered by a law giving them claim to their forests, village women are patrolling to keep poachers out.

Afghan television journalist Sami Mahdi.

Television in Afghanistan is pushing boundaries, and viewers like what they see

Media

Afghan journalists like Samiullah Mahdi are creating popular, controversial TV programs that take big risks to reach an eager audience.

A woman leaves a polling station after casting her vote during municipal elections, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia December 12, 2015

Happy for the right to vote, now Saudi women vie for real democracy

Global Politics

Saudi women got to vote for the first time in this weekend’s elections — and won a few seats too. But many say this vote is just the beginning.

Women

A self-proclaimed ‘vaginal ecologist’ is determined to halt the transmission of HIV to women

Health

Sharon Hillier didn’t start out wanting to be the voice of, well, the vagina. But when she discovered just how off-base men who studied women’s reproductive issues were, she felt she had to do something.

The salaries of female bosses are 35 percent lower than their male colleagues.

If the women in your office don’t make as much as the men, here’s what to do about it

Business

When women climb the management ladder, their wage gap with men grows even wider.