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Michelle Obama’s new reign of soft power

The pavilion outside the Barclays Center on Saturday afternoon was a world of naked want. Ticket holders bounced with frantic entitlement.

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Category: Gender - Date:12/10/2018

Shannon Keith is fighting sex trafficking in India, one pajama set at a time

I’ve always admired companies with a "giving-back" component, so when I started Entrepreneur's Builders Series, I knew I had to interview Shannon Keith, founder of Sudara. Sudara is a thriving benefit corporation that creates training and jobs for women who are at the highest risk of sex trafficking.

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Category: Gender - Date:12/10/2018

How 343 women made French history by talking about their abortions

On April 5, 1971, in France, 343 filmmakers, writers, actresses, singers, and philosophers ended a long-held silence. “One million women have abortions each year in France,” they wrote in a manifesto published in the magazine Nouvel Observateur.

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Category: Gender - Date:11/28/2018

These women are peacekeepers in one of the most dangerous places on Earth

The UN’s peacekeeping mission in Mali has the grim distinction of being the deadliest active peacekeeping deployment in the world. Still, that hasn’t stopped nearly 500 women from working for the Blue Helmets. Have a look here to see what life is like for these brave women, and why the UN wants to recruit more female peacekeepers.

Source: BBC
Category: Gender - Date:11/20/2018

Why women in South Korea are destroying their make-up collections

Women in South Korea are publicly destroying their cosmetics to protest the high standards of female beauty that have become a norm in their country. Korean women are urged to pursue a “pore-less” look, which is achieved by carefully applying skin-care and make-up products daily. Fed up with this unattainable standard, a multiplicity of women have begun sharing images and videos on social media of them trashing their make-up collections. The anti-cosmetic protest is part of a wider South Korean feminist movement nicknamed “escape the corset.”

Source: Quartz
Category: Gender - Date:10/29/2018

Women were written out of political history. We’re putting them back in

Ninety-one years ago, Nancy Astor became the first woman to take her seat in parliament. She stayed there for the next 27 years, speaking regularly in debates, getting into all sorts of disputes, and frequently causing a fair amount of controversy.

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Category: Gender - Date:10/08/2018

California becomes first U.S. state to require women on company boards

Canada has as many female as male ministers in the government. The new Spanish government has more women than men. And recently, for the first time, women foreign ministers of almost 20 countries came together in Montreal. At the same time, gender equality still requires much more effort. That’s why it’s very welcome that California, as the first U.S. state, is requiring women on all company boards in the state.

Source: The Guardian
Category: Gender - Date:10/03/2018

Why this infant sat front row at the Nelson Mandela peace summit

Being the world’s youngest female head of state, as well as a new mother, New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is constantly breaking down new barriers for women and making history. This week she did it again when she attended the Nelson Mandela peace summit in New York City with her three-month-old daughter sitting on her lap. It marks the first time a female head of state has attended a United Nations General Assembly with her infant.

Source: TIME
Category: Gender - Date:09/27/2018

A new front in fighting the bias against women in science

Angela Saini’s Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong—and the New Research That's Rewriting the Story is a powerful, impartial and thoroughly researched look at the origins of Damore’s—and troves of other engineers’ and scientists’—misconceptions. Inferior examines both the science and the scientists, delving into how easily bias and motivated reasoning creep into experiments, analysis, and the way we see the world.

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Category: Gender - Date:09/19/2018