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.
Leaders
GlobalPost
July 17, 2018
Many believe that women were key to the success of Armenia’s "Velvet Revolution." But that has not translated into greater political representation.
PRI's The World
July 13, 2018
In the very Catholic countries of South America, feminists are fighting to change basic cultural attitudes about women. That’s the case in Paraguay, at the heart of the continent. Two women have paid a personal price to send a message about domestic violence.
Global Politics
The Conversation
July 13, 2018
Gender-equal governments, which include the same number of men and women as ministry heads and in other cabinet posts, used to be the purview of woman-friendly Nordic countries and highly progressive societies like Canada and Costa Rica. No longer.
Women & Girls
PRI's The World
July 12, 2018
Thirty years after a US-backed dictator was overthrown, Paraguayan women still struggle under the oppression he imposed.
Women & Girls
GlobalPost
July 12, 2018
Brazil’s household workers have been fighting for their rights for more than a century. Technology might revolutionize their fight.
Women & Girls
GlobalPost
July 10, 2018
Over a decade ago, male elders in the Wayuu tribe decided to appoint a woman as its leader. After the success of being led by a female head, the community changed its governance traditions and now exclusively appoints women to lead.
Health
PRI's The World
July 10, 2018
A resolution endorsing breastfeeding became the latest political lightning rod when the Trump administration threatened some countries with a withdrawal of aid if they didn't support a more watered-down version that caves to the infant formula industry.
PRI's The World
July 04, 2018
A new bill seeks to limit surrogacy to altruistic surrogates only, killing a business that injects $400 billion into the Indian economy every year.
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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
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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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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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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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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.”