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Peru Campaign Quiet on Reproductive Issues By Jen Ross Employment May 22, 2006 In Peru, which has one of the highest illegal abortion rates in Latin America, the sole female presidential candidate is ...
Kelly St. John, a reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle, created a documentary that told the story of her rape, and that of another 14-year-old who was assaulted by the same man a year earlier. She ...
Thirty years ago, a group of women joined forces to write and publish the first edition of “Our Bodies, Ourselves.” Now in its fifth edition, the book has empowered millions of women to take charge of ...
Professional women in New York who broke ground in the workplace are helping each other blaze retirement paths. In late midlife, they are meeting in peer groups to find new forms of activity and ...
Violence against civilians and widespread infrastructure damage are making it difficult for Iraqi women to agree about the U.S. occupation or concentrate on pushing for a role in the reconstruction ...
Staring at the computer screen, I could barely make out the letters. But I will never forget what I heard. "These are likely the slave owners of your second great grandfather." The very nice ...
Just Consider Tina Turner Meanwhile, the days of being shocked at an older woman with a younger man are over. Just think of the roster of high-profile women involved with younger men. Georgia O’Keefe, ...
Mexico is one of the world's most dangerous places to be transgender. But as lawmakers try to change that, transgender women who are deported confront a social backlash that makes their homeland more ...
Mobile health units are rolling clinicians into remote parts of Bolivia and helping to lower one of the world's worst rates of maternal mortality. Reporting costs for this story were partially funded ...
As the government wipes important sexual health information from official websites and targets research funding simply for the presence of words like “women” and “sex,” it’s more important than ever ...