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Lauren Sugerman maintained and repaired elevators in the 1980s. She says she got the job because of a 1965 executive order that required federal contractors to identify and address barriers to employment for women and people of color.

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  • Politics

With Trump's crackdown on DEI, some women fear a path to good-paying jobs will close

Some fear a setback for women and people of color after President Trump revoked a 1965 executive order that required federal contractors to identify and address barriers to employment.

March 20, 2025
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By:
  • Andrea Hsu
Tetiana Medvedenko (left) and Iryna Ostanko (right), both underground machine operators, walk to the elevators that will take them below the surface into a DTEK coal mine near Ternivka, Ukraine.

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  • World

In a workforce transformed by war, Ukrainian women are now working in coal mines

War has changed Ukraine's workforce, especially in heavy industry and mining. With men conscripted to fight the war against Russia, women have started working in traditionally male jobs.

January 07, 2025
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By:
  • Joanna Kakissis and
  • Michael Robinson Chávez
People gather at a women's rights march in Chicago on the second anniversary of the <em>Dobbs</em> decision, the Supreme Court ruling that overturned <em>Roe v. Wade</em> and struck down federal abortion protections.

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  • Economy

Why abortion referendums are also about the economy

Abortion is on the ballot in 10 states. The vote results will have consequences beyond women's reproductive rights.

October 31, 2024
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By:
  • Pallavi Gogoi
A member of the U.S. Capitol Police carries a Congressional Gold Medal for Katherine Johnson, one of NASA's "Hidden Figures," during a ceremony on Capitol Hill on Wednesday.

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  • National

NASA's 'Hidden Figures' awarded Congressional Gold Medals for pioneering space work

A group of Black female scientists and mathematicians known as NASA's “Hidden Figures” were honored Wednesday with Congressional Gold Medals, the highest award given to citizens by Congress.

September 19, 2024
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By:
  • Chandelis Duster
An Afghan burqa-clad woman walks past a wall mural with the map of Afghanistan, in Kabul on February 1, 2024.

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  • Global Health

Afghan women sing to protest a law that orders them to keep quiet

A new morality law is full of restrictions. No neckties for men. Photos cannot be reproduced. The harshest rules are for women — who are singing out on social media to protest the ban on singing.

September 13, 2024
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By:
  • Diaa Hadid,
  • Fariba Akbari,
  • and 1 more
Tiana Hill

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  • News

Formerly incarcerated Georgia women speak about pregnancy behind bars

Women from Georgia spoke about their experiences being pregnant and giving birth while incarcerated at Sen. Jon Ossoff’s  Atlanta hearing of the Senate Committee on Human Rights.

August 15, 2024
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By:
  • Sarah Kallis
Two health workers see a patient.  “Cataract cut my main income source," the patient said before she had surgery. "I cannot sell anything, I cannot write anything. It’s difficult to continue with my job.”

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  • Global Health

Prize for the eyes: WHO honors film on Indonesia's pioneering women eye docs

The short documentary is called The Visionary Women of Indonesia. It profiles women ophthalmologists who are addressing the high rate of blindness in their country — and fighting sexism as well.

August 02, 2024
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  • Vicky Hallett
Anti-abortion activists who describe themselves as "abolitionists" protest outside a fertility clinic in North Carolina in April 2024.

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  • Politics

Republicans try to soften stance on abortion as 'abolitionists' go farther

Activists who describe themselves as "abortion abolitionists" want to charge women who have abortions with homicide and ban the fertility treatment known as IVF, saying life begins at conception.

May 21, 2024
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  • Sarah McCammon
Kendrick Lamar. Drake. A woman holding a child.

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  • Music

Drake and Kendrick are beefing, but who pays? Plus, moms as our social safety net

Drake and Kendrick have been trading diss tracks for weeks, and it's gotten darker and darker with each track. Drake accuses Kendrick of beating women, and Kendrick accuses Drake of abusing minors. It's a spectacle, but who are the pawns? Brittany chats with NPR Music's Sidney Madden and writer Tirhakah Love about the collateral damage in this rap beef.

Then, Brittany turns to Holding It Together a new book that describes how America has avoided building a social safety net and instead relies on women to provide the services that could be universal to all. Author Jessica Calarco joins the show to dive into the book and take a look at the cultural forces that keep women holding it all together.

May 10, 2024
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By:
  • Barton Girdwood,
  • Alexis Williams,
  • and 5 more
Rep. Anne Allen Westbrook talks to Minority Caucus Whip Sam Park during the 2024 legislative session. Westbrook’s home is 228 miles away in Savannah.

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  • Family

Lawmaker mothers with children in tow are still few in numbers but bring often missing perspective

The landscape at the Georgia Capitol is changing as more women have been elected to the Legislature and as the work of caregiving is increasingly shared among spouses.

May 10, 2024
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By:
  • Jill Nolin
At the National STEM Festival, 12th-grader Treyonna Sullivan talks with visitors about her "Project Poop," created to encourage pet owners in her community to dispose of their pet's waste.

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  • National

Women of color still lag behind in STEM jobs, despite efforts to change

STEM careers are still lagging when it comes to hiring women of color.

April 22, 2024
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By:
  • Marisa Peñaloza
Nancy Gobran, instructor and owner of Safety Driving School, poses in an empty parking lot where she holds her driving lessons on Feb. 6, 2024 in Stone Mountain, Georgia.

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  • News

Teaching refugee women to drive goes farther than their destination

A greater Atlanta program called Women Behind the Wheel offers 14 hours of free drivers' education to mostly refugee and immigrant women. Many of the women who enroll come from countries that discourage women from driving or working outside their home.

April 12, 2024
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  • Associated Press
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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By:
  • Se Eun Gong
'A Call to Action: Jimmy Carter's 2014 book about women's rights was presented to guests at an International Women's Day event  celebrating the book's 10th anniversary and engaging the attendees in a discussion about actions toward security and equality.

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  • News

'A Call to Action': Carter Center celebrates book anniversary and Women's History Month

On March 11 at the Carter Center, a multigenerational group of women found that a lot has changed in the decade since the release of President Carter's A Call to Action — namely, that many women now view progress on the hyper-local level as vital as that of the "big picture." 

March 25, 2024
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  • Kristi York Wooten
Members of the Drexel team celebrate during a game against Stony Brook in the championship of the Colonial Athletic Association conference women's tournament, Sunday, March 17, 2024. Drexel won and qualified for the NCAA women's basketball tournament - and will now face No. 1 bracket seed Texas.

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  • Sports

Let the madness begin: 3 things to watch at the NCAA basketball tournaments

With NCAA brackets formed, the college basketball tournaments dubbed March Madness because of its drama begin this week. Here are some highlights to watch for as the men's and women's games begin.

March 20, 2024
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  • Rebecca Rosman
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