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How a Notorious Abortionist Built a Drug Empire
Desperate 19th-century women, mistreated by the American medical establishment, risked black-market remedies and the wrath of Anthony Comstock’s moralizing thugs.
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Excluding trans women in women’s chess makes you a pawn of the patriarchy
Wait a bit, chess has separate competitions for men and women? Why? – The world’s top chess federation is banning trans women from competing until a review is made
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A Ghostwriter’s Guide for Invisible Women
Do you feel overlooked or overtalked at the office? Don’t get mad, get tactical. Here’s how.
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Rare 1885 Photo Captures the First Licensed Women Doctors of India, Japan, and Syria
Their individual stories are as fascinating as their shared ones.
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Runestone Revelation Hints The Most Famous Viking Was a Woman
Harald Bluetooth is the most famous of Viking leaders, celebrated for unifying the people of Denmark during his reign from 958 to around 985 CE.
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One of The Biggest Hunter-Gatherers Myths Is Finally Getting Debunked
The enduring idea that men evolved to hunt and women evolved to gather is a relatively baseless assumption that is facing greater academic resistance than ever before.
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How Much Do NFL Cheerleaders Make? Inside Their Long Fight For Fair Pay
For an NFL cheerleader, salary is a tricky issue. NFL cheerleaders make as little as $12 an hour for games. And increasingly, people are asking: why?
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How Evolution Explains High "Heeled Shoes"
New research suggests wearing heels forces women to walk in a way that exaggerates their femininity as well as adding to their height.
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Princess Diana Photo, Never Seen Before, Hits Auction Block
She was one of the world's most photographed women, but now a new and unseen photo of the late Princess Diana is causing a stir nearly 16 years after her death as it goes to public auction.
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Rape case 'an awakening' for India, victim's father says
The father of the woman whose rape and fatal beating provoked outrage across India and worldwide says his daughter's death "brought an awakening to society."
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Miss Montana: First autistic Miss America contestant
Look for Alexis Wineman when she struts her stuff Saturday night in Las Vegas for the2013 Miss America Competition(ABC, 9 p.m.), because she'll be making history.
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Why woman was told to kill her child
One-month-old baby girl Khushi, which means "happiness" in Hindi, would not have been alive had her mother, Sumanjeet, given in to pressure from some relatives and neighbors.
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LETTER FROM A MOTHER TO A DAUGHTER
Great Story
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Another gang rape in India
In an incident eerily similar to a sexual assault that sent shock waves worldwide, Indian police say a woman was gang-raped over the weekend by seven men after she boarded a bus at night.
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The High Price of Being Single in America
Over a lifetime, unmarried women can pay as much as a million dollars more than their married counterparts for healthcare, taxes, and more.
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Topless feminists crash the Pope's Sunday mass
A group of feminists engaged in a campaign to Take Back the Rite on Sunday, disrupting the Pope’s regular morning mass at the Vatican by stripping off and yelling at Pope Benedict XVI to “Shut up.”
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Berries Linked to Lower Heart Disease Among Women
The benefits for the heart of eating strawberries and blueberries can build up over a lifetime, according to the latest research.
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When Women Used Lysol as Birth Control
A look back at shocking ads for the popular, dangerous, and ineffective antiseptic douche.
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All These Objections to Women in Combat Are Dumb
Serious people won't pay attention to you if your only objection to women serving in combat if you just say, "No sir, I don't like it!" So people with dated ideas about what women can do are forced to invent objections that look at least superficially rooted in fact, instead of sexism.
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The all-female militias of Syria
The Syrian regime is arming and training Syrian women to fight for President Bashar al-Assad, putting it out in front of the Pentagon when it comes to sending women to the front lines.
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