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How motherhood spurred one New Yorker to take on the fossil fuel industry
Marlena Fontes is a climate activist and mother who wants to take down the fossil fuel industry
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India has made remarkable progress cutting maternal deaths. Could climate change pose a threat?
Severe seasonal water shortages are forcing hospitals in India to close their doors to women in labor, raising fears that maternal health gains could be threatened
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Can the Climate Tech Revolution Avoid Leaving Women Behind?
Tech is dominated by men. Only a small percentage of solar and wind workers are female – but there are places where women shine in the clean tech world
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Sex Matters: Medical Research Overlooks Women
Scientists still ignore sex differences in testing new treatments
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Women workers at high risk from automation
In Kenya’s tea plantations, labor activists say thirty thousand women have lost their jobs as a result of automation — they represent a broader global trend, with experts saying women are more likely than men to be automated out of a job
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Silicon Valley VCs Invest Almost Exclusively in Companies Founded by Men. Could a new California law change that?
California would become the first state to require venture capital firms disclose the race and gender of the founders of the companies they fund, under a bill currently awaiting Gov. Gavin Newsom’s signature
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The women workers who are subsidizing global public health
Millions of community health workers, like the famous ASHA workers of India, form the cost-effective backbone of rural health programs around the world but are often unpaid — meaning millions of unpaid or underpaid women are effectively subsidizing trillions of dollars in global health
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Afghan women take their own lives as despair grows under Taliban rule
An investigation into rising female suicides in Afghanistan as the Taliban erodes women’s rights
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The women who helped bring down Sudan’s dictator hoped it would end discrimination against them. Instead, they’re fighting for their lives.
The Sudanese women who toppled al-Bashir wanted an equal seat at the negotiating table. Instead, they were sidelined by fundamentalist military commanders who served under al-Bashir
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She escaped her husband’s physical violence – but economic ties kept them connected for years
The financial system has become a new frontier in the fight against intimate partner violence
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South Korea’s crackdown on false accusations has “chilling effect” on rape survivors
A wave of anti-feminist backlash in South Korea — from the president’s vow to go hard on “false sexual assault accusers” to the government’s open refusal to reform the country’s outdated rape laws — is intimidating many sexual assault victims in the country into silence, women’s rights advocates war
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Do Gender Quotas in Elections Work?
Sierra Leone is about to become the latest country to find out
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‘Women bear the biggest brunt of climate change,’ says climate scientist Susan Chomba
Kenyan Susan Chomba leads the fight against climate change and for the environment in a high-profile role at the World Resources Institute
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Will California crack down on cash apps that trap women in debt?
Cash advance apps promise women financial freedom, but often leave them trapped in a cycle of debt
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“This is ours” – Somaliland women smell success as frankincense business takes off
Somaliland’s female frankincense workers have set up their own cooperative to take back control after years of low pay and harsh conditions
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