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Fast fashion is one of the world’s most polluting industries. Its global workforce is paying the price.
2 May 2024 • 11 min read

Fast fashion is one of the world’s most polluting industries. Its global workforce is paying the price.

Around the world, fashion’s mostly female labor force are grappling with working conditions made increasingly unbearable and unhealthy by climate change.

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Fast fashion is one of the world’s most polluting industries. Its global workforce is paying the price.
2 May 2024 • 11 min read

Fast fashion is one of the world’s most polluting industries. Its global workforce is paying the price.

Around the world, fashion’s mostly female labor force are grappling with working conditions made increasingly unbearable and unhealthy by climate change.

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New federal report calls out clinical trials for excluding pregnant women
10 Apr 2024 • 5 min read

New federal report calls out clinical trials for excluding pregnant women

A new report from the influential National Academies of Sciences pushes back on the unspoken rule in medical research that pregnant and breastfeeding women are too vulnerable and risky to include in clinical trials

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While many Black women in US abandon hair relaxers linked to cancer, sales climb in African countries
10 Apr 2024 • 11 min read

While many Black women in US abandon hair relaxers linked to cancer, sales climb in African countries

The companies at the center of thousands of U.S. lawsuits produce some of Africa’s most popular chemical straighteners like Dark & Lovely and TCB Naturals

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Why Heart Disease Research Still Favors Men
5 Apr 2024 • 8 min read

Why Heart Disease Research Still Favors Men

Women are neglected by medical research, especially when it comes to heart disease

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New Hope for Pakistan’s Mistreated Workers
2 Apr 2024 • 6 min read

New Hope for Pakistan’s Mistreated Workers

Germany’s new Supply Chain Act could help curb some of the world’s worst labor injustices

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Mona Polacca: leading with the heart in a time of climate change
30 Mar 2024 • 6 min read

Mona Polacca: leading with the heart in a time of climate change

Prominent spiritual elder reflects on what propels her work toward a future of Indigenous climate justice

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Natural disasters raise risk of domestic violence
29 Mar 2024 • 8 min read

Natural disasters raise risk of domestic violence

Natural disasters increase instances of intimate partner violence, creating particular danger for the usual victims: women

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The Brutality of Sugar: Debt, Child Marriage and Hysterectomies
24 Mar 2024 • 20 min read

The Brutality of Sugar: Debt, Child Marriage and Hysterectomies

Women working on India’s sugarcane farms are having expensive and medically unnecessary hysterectomies so they can work uninterrupted – a practice that keeps sugar flowing to Coke, Pepsi and Cadbury, but leaves its victims with long-term health problems and debts they can’t pay

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Nearly Three Decades of Data on Women in Construction is Missing — Here’s How That Could Change
21 Mar 2024 • 5 min read

Nearly Three Decades of Data on Women in Construction is Missing — Here’s How That Could Change

The government stopped collecting data on diversity in the construction industry nearly three decades ago — that could soon change

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The Global Cost of the American Anti-Abortion Movement
18 Mar 2024 • 22 min read

The Global Cost of the American Anti-Abortion Movement

Conservatives have not limited their attack on reproductive rights to the United States. They’ve been busy imposing their will on other countries, too—with disastrous consequences for millions of poor women

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‘We’re waving our white flag’: What physicians say they need from the U.S. to stop syphilis spread
4 Mar 2024 • 7 min read

‘We’re waving our white flag’: What physicians say they need from the U.S. to stop syphilis spread

Not since 1950 have more pregnant women and babies been sick with syphilis — a perfect storm of slashed public health funding and the spread of maternity-care deserts

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Iran’s New—Even Worse—Hijab Era Has Begun
29 Feb 2024 • 5 min read

Iran’s New—Even Worse—Hijab Era Has Begun

On the eve of parliamentary elections, nationwide protests have ended—and a misogynist backlash is just beginning

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Gaza’s Widows Are Fighting for Their Families’ Lives
12 Jan 2024 • 6 min read

Gaza’s Widows Are Fighting for Their Families’ Lives

Women in Gaza ‘have to find ways to survive’ as the humanitarian crisis grows

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Homelessness Spikes Among California Women
21 Dec 2023 • 5 min read

Homelessness Spikes Among California Women

Data shows 60,000 unhoused women in the state, among them domestic violence survivors, pregnant women and mothers

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Abortion is becoming a new front in Reform UK’s culture war → Millions of women depend on low-paid fast fashion jobs. Trump’s tariffs are making their lives more precarious → Everyone agrees something needs to be done about low birth rates. The question is will anything work? →
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Millions of women depend on low-paid fast fashion jobs. Trump’s tariffs are making their lives more precarious → These creators help millions of people talk about bodies, sex and sexuality. Their content is being removed because of it → ‘It’s become the norm.’ Sexual violence in women’s sport and the silence that accompanies it →
United States
Women in the United States are poorer by design → ‘Don’t engage on ideology’ – and five other lessons for helping people leave the far right → What you need to know about the state of abortion in the US today →
Health
‘They had names’: How the deaths of eight pregnant women started a movement → These creators help millions of people talk about bodies, sex and sexuality. Their content is being removed because of it → ‘Urgent action is needed to safeguard the lives of women and children’ →
Afghanistan
‘Shattered hopes’ – Afghan women react to the Taliban’s ban on medical studies → Afghan women take their own lives as despair grows under Taliban rule → ‘We have to fight back.’ Afghan women are losing their hard-won right to work under the Taliban →
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Investigation: With PayPal focused on profit, far-right groups go undetected and undeterred → Europe’s OnlyFans performers can’t get justice → ‘Urgent action is needed to safeguard the lives of women and children’ →
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