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

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

Conflict

Does gender play a role in the art of diplomacy? A discussion with Madeleine Albright and Wendy Sherman on gender, diplomacy and the Trump administration.

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
Afghan television journalist Sami Mahdi.

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

Media
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
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.

The World

A push to tackle issues of global gender inequality

Development

The 1995 UN World Conference on Women in Beijing projected total gender equality by the year 2005. That was 10 years ago. It’s time to revisit the status of women and girls in the world.

Shymaa Abou el-Yazed is the world champion and captain of the Egyptian karate team.

This Egyptian karate champion is a role model for her country’s women

Sports

Shymaa Abou el-Yazed is not your average young Egyptian woman: She’s the captain of the Egyptian karate team and a reigning world champion — despite coming from a country where women’s rights are under constant threat.

Nigerian pastor Esther Ibanga joined with Muslim leaders in the city of Jos to call for the return of Chibok girls who were kidnapped by the extremist group Boko Haram.

‘It’s not about you being a Muslim and me being a Christian,’ says one Nigerian activist

Justice

Muslim and Christian women in central Nigeria are banding together to confront violent extremism — in a bid to return safety and security to their communities.