Across Women's Lives
Newsworthy stories and engagement opportunities focused on the issues facing women and girls around the world. More information is found here.
Health & Medicine
GlobalPost
June 21, 2018
For Vangay, the Immigrant Microbiome Project isn’t just about advancing scientific discovery in an ivory tower lab. It’s about social justice and making science more inclusive.
Women & Girls
GlobalPost
June 19, 2018
Launched 14 years ago in Mumbai by three trans women — Abhina Aher, Urmi Jadhav and Madhuri Sarode — the ensemble now has 30 members.
Women & Girls
The Conversation
June 18, 2018
Popular TV celebrities continue to boast on air that they either didn’t like math or struggled with it. Sally Ride Science helps to combat misconceptions and dispel myths by bringing practicing scientists and engineers directly to the students.
Women & Girls
PRI's The World
June 15, 2018
My Red Light in Amsterdam is almost entirely run by former or current sex workers. And it's designed to ensure that those who rent rooms there aren't being trafficked or exploited. But some maintain that the work itself is inherently exploitative.
Conflict
GlobalPost
June 15, 2018
Today, the group has 61 members — women who are HIV-positive, widows, single mothers, women who face domestic abuse, former abductees who lost their limbs or still live with bullet wounds and women whose children were abducted during the conflict, with some of them never returning.
Culture
GlobalPost
June 13, 2018
Ausma Zehanat Khan, 49, published her first book just four years ago. Her impressive output since then, which includes a short story featuring her detectives and a nonfiction children’s book about Ramadan, might attest to the pent-up creative energy she's had since she was a teenager.
Technology
GlobalPost
June 11, 2018
Inspired by the #MeToo movements that spread around the world last fall, #Teknisktfel is a petition, hashtag and website run by seven women in Sweden’s tech industry dedicated to chronicling the harassment and discrimination that women in the field face every day.
Women & Girls
PRI's The World
June 08, 2018
For millions of women around the world, monthly periods are something that comes with real hazards, such as missing school and work or being subjected to potentially harmful sanitary conditions. But there's a global menstrual movement taking place.
Business
Global Press Journal
June 08, 2018
Getting around the busy capital of Chiapas can be expensive, inconvenient and dangerous, so last year, four women banded together to provide driver services to friends and family. The women aren’t licensed taxi drivers, but their secret — safe, alternative transportation — is spreading fast.
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Lifestyle
The advice that older women have for the young on love, marriage
February 01, 2015
Choose carefully. That's what a a Cornell gerontologist says elderly women want younger women to know about love and marriage. Listen to what your friends say, and, as old-fashioned as this sounds, ask yourself: Is your partner a good "provider?"
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Conflict
Update: Indiana sentences Purvi Patel to decades in prison for what she says was a miscarriage
PRI's The World
March 13, 2015
Updated
Purvi Patel is the second pregnant woman in Indiana to be charged under the state's law against "feticide," a law originally passed to protect pregnant women from harm. Patel was sentenced Monday to face up to 20 years in prison, in a case has alarmed advocates for women and immigrants.
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Belief
She's an imam in LA and doesn't have patience for a strict interpretation of Islam
BBC News
July 17, 2015
Updated
Ani Zonneveld started as a Grammy award-winning songwriter. Now she spends her time challenging conservative interpretation of her Muslim faith and has become an imam that embraces gender equality, gay rights and interfaith marriage.
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Belief
I'm a woman in America, and I wasn't allowed to drive
PRI's The World
January 22, 2015
Saudi Arabia may be the only country where women aren't allowed to drive, but it’s not the only place where woman are forbidden from getting behind the wheel. It even happens in some communities in the US.
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Election 2016
A cross-generational group of US women is planning a nationwide strike against Trump
December 05, 2016
They may be decades apart, but the women organizing the Dec. 12 strike have their eyes set on one prize: getting the electoral college to change their votes.
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Global Politics
PHOTOS: It's official. The Women's March has swept the globe
PRI's The World
January 21, 2017
Updated
Tens of thousands of women and men turned out for the March on Washington's sister marches in cities and countries around the globe. See the pictures.
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Culture
Fighting to put a woman on the $20 bill
The Takeaway
March 18, 2015
Updated
It's time, one group says, to end the monopoly of men on US paper currency. President Barack Obama thinks it's about time, too.
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Education
Until recently this school in South Africa told black girls to chemically straighten their hair
PRI's The World
August 30, 2016
Updated
“If we cannot be black in school, where can we be black?” asks an alum of Pretoria High School for Girls. “Where can we be black if we can’t be black in Africa?”
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Health
This country doesn't want women to get pregnant until 2018
PRI's The World
January 25, 2016
El Salvador has some of the most restrictive abortion laws in the hemisphere. And advocates hope that El Salvador's recommendation that women hold off getting pregnant until 2018 will spur a conversation about the country's laws around reproduction in general.
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Global Politics
In Mumbai, 'shock and horror' over Trump’s statements about women
PRI's The World
October 14, 2016
“This is happening in a country we look up to as a progressive, and really a developed nation.”