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A patient talks with a nurse at a traveling contraception clinic in Madagascar run by MSI Reproductive Choices, an organization that provides contraception and safe abortion services in 37 countries. The group condemned the overturn of <em>Roe v. Wade</em> and warned that the ruling could stymie abortion access overseas.

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  • Global Health

Global reproductive and women's rights groups react to overturn of Roe v. Wade

Some nonprofit groups have welcomed the U.S. Supreme Court decision. But many global reproductive and women's rights groups condemned the ruling.

June 24, 2022
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  • Malaka Gharib
Runners compete in the women's NCAA Division I Cross-Country Championships, Saturday, Nov. 23, 2019, in Terre Haute, Ind.

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  • Sports

The NCAA says that funding for women in college sports is falling behind

A newly released report shows men's college athletic programs received more than double that of women's programs in allocated resources in 2020.

June 24, 2022
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  • GPB Newsroom
Allyson Felix reacts after winning a gold medal in the Women's 4 x 400m Relay Final at the Tokyo Olympic Games in August 2021.

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  • Sports

Allyson Felix launches a child care initiative for athlete moms

Allyson Felix is the most decorated US track and field athlete in history. As she wraps up her last season, she focuses on supporting other athletes moms.

June 21, 2022
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  • Olivia Hampton
Star Feminine Band in Paris.

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  • Music

Like The Linda Lindas, this teen girl band in Benin makes you dance — and think

The 7-member band hails from a conservative part of the country. They sing about female genital cutting, child marriage and gender equality. And they rock.

May 28, 2022
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  • Nick Roll
Star Feminine Band in Paris.

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  • Music

Like The Linda Lindas, this teen girl band in Benin makes you dance — and think

The 7-member band hails from a conservative part of the country. They sing about female genital cutting, child marriage and gender equality. And they rock.

May 28, 2022
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By:
  • Nick Roll
Activist Heather Booth and the Jane Collective, an underground abortion service, provided thousands of women with abortions before <em>Roe v. Wade</em>. Here, she speaks in 2015 during the memorial service for civil rights leader Julian Bond.

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  • Health

The abortion underground and what lessons can be learned from the Jane Collective

Activist Heather Booth and the Jane Collective provided thousands of women with abortions before Roe v. Wade.

May 04, 2022
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  • Fernando Alfonso III
Abortion access protest in Atlanta

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  • Health Care

Georgia election-year politics jolted by Supreme Court draft abortion opinion

A leaked draft of the U.S. Supreme Court’s highly anticipated ruling on abortion rights suggests the nation’s highest court could soon overturn Roe v. Wade and unleash states like Georgia to severely restrict access to the procedure. The unofficial ruling, which was obtained by Politico, became public a couple months before a decision was expected, immediately jolting Georgia politics as early voting starts for this year’s primary election.

May 04, 2022
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  • Jill Nolin and
  • Ross Williams
The abortion drug mifepristone was approved by the FDA more than 20 years ago. The FDA recently relaxed some of the rules for dispensing the drug. Now, some legislatures are trying to restrict access.

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  • Politics

As medication abortion becomes dominant, red states restrict pills

As access to abortion in clinics becomes limited across much of the country, many patients are turning to abortion pills. And conservative state lawmakers are taking notice.

March 29, 2022
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  • Sarah McCammon
Dr. Matshidiso Moeti, the first woman to lead the the World Health Organization's regional Africa office, sits in her office in Brazzaville, Congo on Feb. 8, 2022.

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  • Africa

WHO Africa's 1st woman leader helps continent fight COVID

Dr. Matshidiso Moeti has become one of the world's most compelling voices urging better consideration of Africa's people — especially women.

March 09, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
People try to get on a bus as they leave Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, Feb. 24, 2022. Russia launched a wide-ranging attack on Ukraine on Thursday, hitting cities and bases with airstrikes or shelling, as civilians piled into trains and cars to flee.

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  • Politics

Political Rewind: Russia attacks Ukraine; Women and the ballot in 2022; 'Red meat' issues in session

Thursday on Political Rewind: How will a deeply divided electorate respond to the Russian invasion of Ukraine? Also, our panel discussed the role women on both sides of the aisle are playing in this year’s election — as candidates, organizers and voters.

February 24, 2022
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  • Bill Nigut ,
  • Sam Bermas-Dawes ,
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Mashael al-Shuwaihan, who sits on the board of Kuwait's Women's Cultural Society, speaks during an interview, at a protest outside Kuwait's National Assembly in Kuwait City on Feb. 7, 2022. Her placard reads: "Freedom and equality for women are constitutional pillars."

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  • Middle East

As Kuwait cracks down, a battle erupts over women's rights

Conservative politicians are increasingly pushing back against a burgeoning feminist movement and what they see as an unraveling of the country's traditional values.

February 21, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
Afghan wait to enter a bank, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Feb. 13, 2022.

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  • World

Afghans say they feel safer but less hopeful under Taliban rule

After six months of Taliban rule, many Afghans say they fear for their economic future of lack of personal freedoms.

February 15, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
Logan Sankey jumps during the first round of the ski jumping competition at the U.S. Nordic Combined & Ski Jump Olympic Trials in December in Lake Placid, N.Y.

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  • Sports

The fight for equality in women's ski jumping is about more than ski suits

The sport's governing body has gotten rid of a rule that required hip-enhancing panels on women's ski suits. Ski jumpers still want to see better pay and more opportunities to compete.

February 03, 2022
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  • Emily Russell
Hollins University was founded in 1842 on the principle that "young women require the same thorough and rigid training as that afforded to young men."

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  • National

Who belongs at a women's college in 2021? Students want admissions policies to change

Women's colleges have adapted admissions policies for a generation that increasingly identifies as nonbinary. Hollins University's exclusion of nonbinary applicants has raised hackles.

November 26, 2021
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  • Melissa Block
Dr. Saleema Rehman stands outside Holy Family Hospital in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. The Afghan refugee of Turkmen origin has won UNHCR's Nansen Award for her work helping refugee moms and babies in Pakistan.

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  • Global Health

An Afghan refugee girl grew up to be a prize-winning doc — with a little help from dad

From the moment Saleema Rehman was born, her father believed she was destined to be a doctor. Now she is the winner of a top U.N. award for her work helping displaced women in Pakistan.

October 05, 2021
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  • Ruchi Kumar
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