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Sharp, 'Off The Charts' Rise In Alcoholic Liver Disease Among Young Women

Mar 16, 2021
Some doctors are seeing a disturbing spike in lethal alcoholic liver disease, especially among young women. The recent trend has been supercharged, they say, by the pandemic's isolation and pressures.
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Goats and Soda
Masuma Ahuja, author of <em>Girlhood: Teenagers Around The World In Their Own Voices</em>, set out to document girls' ordinary lives.
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In 'Girlhood,' Teens Across The Globe Write About Their Everyday Lives

Feb 28, 2021
'Girlhood,' a collection of diary-style entries by teen girls, aims to bust stereotypes about cultures while revealing girls' everyday lives.
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Latin America
Ana Teresa Castillo, who runs a shelter for Venezuelan migrants in the Colombian border town of Villa del Rosario, says she is tending to many more rape victims now than before the pandemic began. She blames the closing of official border posts and gangs
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Women Fleeing Venezuela Are Targeted With Sexual Assault As They Cross Into Colombia

Jan 29, 2021
Human rights activists have reported a sharp increase in sexual assaults and human trafficking involving Venezuelan women and girls trying to reach Colombia since the border closed amid the pandemic.
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World
The final restoration project by the nonprofit Advancing Women Artists group features works by Violante Ferroni, an 18th century prodigy about whom little is known today.
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'Where Are The Women?': Uncovering The Lost Works Of Female Renaissance Artists

Jan 02, 2021
A nonprofit has identified 2,000 works by women artists that had been stashed in Italy's public museums and damp churches. It's also supported restoration of 70 works from the 16th to 20th centuries.
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Coronavirus Updates
NCAA announced plans are underway to play the entire women's Division I basketball tournament in one location, San Antonio. The Baylor-Notre Dame title game in Tampa, Fla., last year is pictured.
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NCAA Plans To Hold All Of Women's Basketball Tournament In San Antonio This Spring

Dec 14, 2020
"Conducting the championship in one geographic region allows for more planning and execution of safeguards," an NCAA official said on Monday. The NCAA hopes all 64 teams will play in San Antonio.
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Goats and Soda
From left to right: Naomi Ochoa, Crystal Watts and Danielle Demetria East
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'Slow Down,' 'Don't Quit': Advice From 7 Women Who Overcame Their Pandemic Struggles

Nov 22, 2020
Nominated by NPR readers, we highlight the story of seven women who overcame personal struggles through the pandemic – and how they found the strength to pull through.
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Politics
Anti-abortion-rights activists participate in the March for Life rally near the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 24.
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A World Without Legal Abortion: How Activists Envision A 'Post-Roe' Nation

Oct 27, 2020
With the confirmation of Judge Amy Coney Barrett, anti-abortion activists hope for a world where ending an unwanted pregnancy is not an option.
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Marissa Tuping, a rural midwife, and Risa Calibuso, right, arrive in Nueva Vizcaya Provincial Hospital on July 21. Calibuso gave birth to her son moments later.
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The Philippines Has A Policy Against Home Births. It's Not Playing Well In A Pandemic

Oct 25, 2020
The "No Home Birth" policy was created to reduce maternal and newborn mortality rates. But critics say it makes giving birth expensive and complicated — especially during the coronavirus crisis.
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Goats and Soda
Geraldine Roman, the first openly transgender person to be elected to the Philippine Congress, visits a vegetable garden in Bataan. She leads a program called Oh My Gulay — <em>gulay</em> is Tagalog for "vegetables." It encourages people to grow veg
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Got A COVID Problem? These 7 Women Changemakers Have A Solution

Oct 16, 2020
Women often bear a heavier burden at times of crisis. But in this pandemic, they're also part of the solution. Read about inspiring women from China to Iceland to India.
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Goats and Soda
From left: Deng Ge is a rap mogul who became a lockdown activist. Poet Sally Wen Mao Mao uses her art to express her anger about how Chinese people are being portrayed in the pandemic. Writer and comic artist Laura Gao, living in the U.S., has a video ch
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How 3 Women From Wuhan Cope With COVID: Rap, Poetry And Moonpies

Oct 14, 2020
We interview a rap mogul (turned community volunteer), an author focused on a nine-tailed fox and a grandmother with a sense of humor. They're part of our special report on women facing the pandemic.
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Portraits Of Resilience: How 19 Women Around The Globe Face The Pandemic

Oct 09, 2020
Women often bear a heavier burden at times of crisis. They take care of the kids, the house, the survival of families. NPR photographed and interviewed 19 women over 3 weeks. Here are their stories.
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Dola Banerjee homeschools her children in New Delhi in August.
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New U.N. Tracker Looks At How Countries' COVID-19 Responses Are Helping Women

Oct 05, 2020
A new database from U.N. Women and UNDP looks at how 206 countries and territories are responding to women's needs during the pandemic. And the results are mixed.
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Events preceding the Women's World Cup final soccer match between the United States and the Netherlands in Decines, France, in 2019. FIFA President Gianni Infantino has suggested that the FIFA Women's World Cup could be held every two years instead of ev
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Women's Soccer World Cup Could Be Held Every Two Years, FIFA President Says

Sep 18, 2020
Gianni Infantino says the organization should be creative and not just copy what the men's World Cup is doing. The contest is now held every four years.
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Tennessee freshman delegate Harry Burn and his mother Febb, who urged him to vote for the 19th amendment in a letter.
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The Nudge And Tie Breaker That Took Women's Suffrage From Nay To Yea

Aug 17, 2020
Tennessee was the final state needed to ratify the amendment that secured women the right to vote. At the last moment, a young state legislator switched his vote to yes after his mom asked him to.
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Slam poet and UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Emi Mahmoud performs at the Sziget Festival in Hungary in 2019.
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A World Champion Slam Poet Pivots To Medicine

Aug 15, 2020
Sudanese American Emi Mahmoud achieved massive success as a spoken word artist. Now she's switching things up and pursuing a career in science.
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Goats and Soda
Surrounded by some members of the White House Coronavirus Task Force, President Trump speaks at a press conference on COVID-19 in March in the Rose Garden. Of the 27 task force members, two are women, standing to Trump's left: Dr. Deborah Birx and Seema
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Where The Women Aren't: On Coronavirus Task Forces

Jun 24, 2020
The pandemic is reportedly taking a greater toll on women. Yet women are underrepresented in expert groups that decide how to control the coronavirus and where funds should go.
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Doctors should start screening all women and girls for anxiety, according a prominent women's health group.
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All Women Should Be Screened For Anxiety Disorders, Health Group Says

Jun 11, 2020
Women suffer from anxiety at nearly twice the rate of men, and a coalition of women's health groups says all teenage girls and women should be screened.
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Latin America
Male students attend to class during at the Universidad Autonoma de Baja California in Tijuana. Women were largely absent from classes in photos posted on social media.
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Mexican Women Stay Home To Protest Femicides In 'A Day Without Us'

Mar 09, 2020
Women across Mexico skipped school, work and social activities Monday to demonstrate against the staggering levels of violence women face in the country. About 10 women are killed in Mexico each day.
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Book Reviews
<em>Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot,</em> by Mikki Kendall
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'Hood Feminism' Is A Call For Solidarity In A Less-Than-Inclusive Movement

Feb 26, 2020
Mikki Kendall reveals how feminism has failed to consider populations too often excluded from the movement's banner — and forgotten to weigh the breadth of issues affecting the daily lives of many.
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National
Utah Gov. Gary Herbert signs bill honoring the state's pioneering women suffragists on Wednesday. He's surrounded by state senators and representatives, and his wife, who are all wearing the yellow rose symbolizing suffrage.<em> </em>
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Power Of The Past: Retelling Utah's Suffragette History To Empower Modern Women

Feb 14, 2020
Women in Utah became the first in America to vote under an equal suffrage law on Feb. 14, 1870. There are celebrations, but it means confronting the state's uncomfortable polygamy history, too.
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Real Orgasms And Transcendent Pleasure: How Women Are Reigniting Desire

Feb 14, 2020
Katherine Rowland, author of The Pleasure Gap: American Women and the Unfinished Sexual Revolution, says it's time for women to start having better sex.
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Code Switch
Author Susan Straight with her three daughters.
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Author Susan Straight Takes Us 'In The Country Of Women'

Jan 29, 2020
In her new memoir, Straight tells the story of the women in her family—her Swiss-German blood relatives and her African American, Indigenous and Creole in-laws who crossed the U.S. to settle in Calif.
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National
Volunteers paint a banner for the front of the demonstration. Organizers hosted the event to bring supporters together ahead of this year's Women's March, scheduled for Saturday.
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After Controversial Leaders Step Down, The Women's March Tries Again In 2020

Jan 17, 2020
For the fourth year, the anti-Trump Women's March will stage events in Washington, D.C., and other places. After years of controversy, the group now has new leadership and a new focus.
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Politics
Equal Rights Amendment supporters demonstrate outside the Virginia State Capitol in Richmond on Jan. 8. The state is close to ratifying the ERA, even as the measure's future nationally remains in doubt.
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For These Women, The Equal Rights Amendment Has Been A Decades-Long Battle

Jan 15, 2020
Women who fought for and against the Equal Rights Amendment decades ago — sometimes as teenagers — are watching the votes in Virginia.
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Economy
Women got the lion's share of new jobs in December and now outnumber men on U.S. payrolls. This unusual situation reflects the growth of industries like health care where women dominate.
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Women Now Outnumber Men On U.S. Payrolls

Jan 10, 2020
Women got the lion's share of new jobs in December and now outnumber men on U.S. payrolls. This unusual situation reflects the growth of industries like health care where women dominate.
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