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News Articles: gender

Military personnel of the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion take part in a parade in honor of Joan d'Arc in Rouen, France, 1945.

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  • History

A Black, all-female WWII unit got a congressional medal 80 years after making history

The Six Triple Eight sorted millions of pieces of wartime mail in a matter of months but weren't recognized publicly for decades. Just two of the 855 women are believed to be alive for the ceremony.

April 30, 2025
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  • Rachel Treisman
The campus of Abundant Life Christian School in Madison, Wis., where a teenage girl opened fire on Monday.

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  • National

The Wisconsin shooting suspect is female. That's rare, data says

Authorities say a 15-year-old girl carried out the shooting that killed two and wounded several at a Wisconsin school. Female shooters are relatively rare, statistically speaking.

December 17, 2024
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  • Rachel Treisman
Search interest and social media posts about 4B have surged in the U.S. since the election. The South Korean movement rejects heterosexual romance, sexual relationships, marriage and childbirth.

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  • World

Boycott men? South Korea's 4B movement gains traction in the U.S. after Trump's win

After Trump's win, there are growing calls among American women to boycott men. They're drawing inspiration from 4B, a South Korean feminist movement that rejects dating, sex, marriage and childbirth.

November 08, 2024
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  • Rachel Treisman
Vice President Harris boards Air Force Two in Pittsburgh, Pa., on Sept. 9, 2024.

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  • Politics

If Harris wins, she would make history. But she isn’t talking about that

Hillary Clinton leaned into her identity when she ran for president. Vice President Kamala Harris is decidedly not.

September 15, 2024
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  • Tamara Keith
Katie Ledecky, Simone Biles and Torri Huske (from left to right) are among the female athletes who brought home multiple medals for Team USA.

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  • Sports

Team USA has women to thank for more than half of its Olympic medals

If American women were their own country, they would rank third in the 2024 Olympic medal count. Women brought home 67 of Team USA’s 126 medals, though one remains in contention.

August 12, 2024
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  • Rachel Treisman
Algeria's Imane Khelif celebrates after defeating Hungary's Anna Hamori in their women's 66kg quarterfinal boxing match on Saturday.

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  • Sports

As an Olympic boxing controversy deepens, the women at its center are poised to medal

Imane Khelif and Lin Yu-Ting are guaranteed to leave Paris with medals. But fallout continues, as does drama between Olympic officials and the Russian-led association that disqualified them last year.

August 05, 2024
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  • Rachel Treisman
Taiwan's Lin Yu-ting, left, and Algeria's Imane Khelif have competed in boxing competitions as women for years. But their presence in Paris is being scrutinized by some after they failed a vague gender eligibility test last year.

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  • Sports

What to know about the gender controversy sweeping Olympic boxing

Olympic organizers are defending the participation of two boxers who failed a gender eligibility test last year. Here's what to know about the key players, conservative outcry and official response.

August 02, 2024
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  • Rachel Treisman
Edith Bouvier Beale at her home "Grey Gardens" in January 1972 in New York. A 1975 documentary by that name explores the reclusive lives of Beale and her mother, living in their dilapidated house with over 50 cats.

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  • Pop Culture

JD Vance went viral for ‘cat lady’ comments. The centuries-old trope has a long tail

Vance lamented the country being run by "a bunch of childless cat ladies," including Vice President Harris. The trope has dogged women since the Middle Ages.

July 29, 2024
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  • Rachel Treisman
Women are shown at a rally to celebrate International Women's Day on March 8, 2024 in Seoul, South Korea. Participants of the rally advocated for a society free from institutional discrimination, one where women can enjoy equal rights with men.

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  • Asia

Elections reveal a growing gender divide across South Korea

While many other developed countries are observing a similar phenomenon, experts say South Korea's fast social development and politicization of gender issues make its case particularly intense.

April 10, 2024
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  • Se Eun Gong
Tech workers said they saw unusually high numbers of men in a monster line for a career expo at a tech conference aimed at elevating women and nonbinary workers.

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  • National

'You could feel the cutthroatness': Droves of men took over this women's tech fair

Organizers of the Grace Hopper Celebration said some men lied about their gender to gain access to a space designed to help women and nonbinary tech workers meet with hiring managers.

October 06, 2023
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  • Emily Olson
Georgia state Sen. Carden Summers, R-Cordele, testifies on Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2023, before the Senate Education and Youth Committee at the Georgia Capitol in Atlanta. Summers says his bill is needed to regulate how public and private schools teach about gender, but LGBTQ+ advocacy groups and some conservatives both oppose the measure.

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  • News

Opponents are unimpressed as a Georgia senator revives a bill regulating how schools teach gender

A Georgia state senator is trying to revive a proposal aimed at stopping teachers from talking to students about gender identity without parental permission. But both gay rights groups and some religious conservatives remain opposed to the bill.

August 24, 2023
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  • Associated Press
<strong></strong>Kate Zernike is a national reporter for the <em>New York Times.</em>

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  • Books

This book dissects the years-long battle for gender equality at MIT

The few female scientists at MIT in the late 20th century found themselves faced with hurdles related to their gender rather than their research. So they did what scientists do: they quantified it.

August 21, 2023
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  • Manuela López Restrepo
The Cobb County Board of Education voted to disregard an earlier decision to allow teacher Katie Rinderle to keep her job after parents complained about a book she read to her fifth-grade class this past school year.

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  • Education

Cobb teacher loses job after close Board of Education vote

Georgia's Cobb County School Board of Education voted Thursday evening to disregard a decision to allow fifth-grade teacher Katie Rinderle to keep her job.

August 17, 2023
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  • Amanda Andrews
A movie screening in Hollywood, Calif.

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  • Movies

USC study reveals Hollywood studios are still lagging when it comes to inclusivity

A new University of Southern California report pinpoints areas that need improvement — as well as a few small wins.

August 17, 2023
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  • Chloe Veltman
The 50th anniversary of Barbie, in 2009, was commemorated in New York by a lineup of Barbie dolls from different eras, starting with the original in a black-and-white swimsuit.

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  • Arts & Life

Is Barbie a feminist icon? It's complicated

The Barbie movie is being celebrated (and slammed) as a feminist film, with its themes of female empowerment and critiques of the patriarchy. Can the same be said for the doll at the center of it?

July 27, 2023
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  • Rachel Treisman
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