Tag: Women and Girls

Gambia to Vote on Repealing Ban on Female Genital Cutting

Gambian lawmakers are preparing to decide whether to revoke a ban on female genital cutting by removing legal protections for millions of girls, raising fears that other countries could follow suit. Members of Gambia’s national assembly plan to vote on whether to overturn the ban on Monday after the second reading of the bill. Human […]

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Kristen Stewart’s Naked Dressing for ‘Love Lies Bleeding’ Makes a Point

Even in the context of the current pantsless trend prevalent on the runway and in some celebrity circles, as well as the vogue for thematic dressing at movie openings, Kristen Stewart’s looks during her press tour for “Love Lies Bleeding” have stood out. Rarely has an actress been so unapologetically, gloriously undressed. Ms. Stewart and […]

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A Retiree in California Is Teaching Afghan Women How to Drive

Bibifatima Akhundzada wove a white Chevy Spark through downtown Modesto, Calif., on a recent morning, practicing turns, braking and navigating intersections. “Go, go, go” said her driving instructor, as she slowed down through an open intersection. “Don’t stop. Don’t stop.” Her teacher was Gil Howard, an 82-year-old retired professor who happened upon a second career […]

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Teen Pregnancy Linked to Risk of Earlier Death in Adulthood, Study Finds

Teen pregnancy increases the chances that a young woman will drop out of school and struggle with poverty, research has shown. Teenagers are also more likely to develop serious medical complications during pregnancy. Now a large study in Canada reports another disturbing finding: Women who were pregnant as teenagers are more likely to die before […]

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‘It’s a Way of Life’: Women Make Their Mark in the Ukrainian Army

On the front line just outside Bakhmut, Ukraine, a 32-year-old commander of a Ukrainian artillery platoon rocked to and fro in the passenger seat of a beat-up Lada, as another soldier navigated the car through a thick forest, sometimes mowing down young trees. When they reached their destination, a small village less than two miles […]

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Ireland Rejects Constitution Changes, Keeping ‘Women in the Home’ Language

Voters in Ireland have rejected two proposed changes to the country’s Constitution that would have removed language about women’s duties being in the home and broadened the definition of family beyond marriage. The results, announced on Saturday, were an unexpected defeat for equality campaigners and for Leo Varadkar, the taoiseach, or prime minister. Mr. Varadkar, […]

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Ireland’s Referendums on Women and Family in the Constitution, Explained

For the past eight decades, Ireland’s Constitution has included language enshrining the role of women in the home, which equality advocates have long seen as a relic of a patriarchal past. On Friday, the Irish public will vote on proposals to change that language and to broaden the definition of what constitutes a family. The […]

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Female Genital Cutting Continues to Increase Worldwide

More than 230 million women and girls around the world have undergone female genital cutting, according to a new analysis by UNICEF, an increase of 30 million since the organization’s last global estimate in 2016. While the data shows that in some countries a new generation of parents have chosen to forgo the practice, in […]

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Hundreds Are Feared Seized in Nigeria, as Kidnapping Epidemic Worsens

Theirs were already lives of great hardship, in camps for displaced people, after they had fled their homes in Nigeria’s embattled northeast. One recent day, they risked a foray into the countryside to collect firewood — and around 200 of them, some officials said, were kidnapped. Just days later, dozens of children — if not […]

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MLB The Show Will Include Women Players for the First Time

For the first time, women will don Major League Baseball jerseys in MLB The Show, the long-running popular video game. MLB The Show 24 will debut the option to create and play a female player in a reinvented version of the game’s career mode, Road to the Show, in which gamers direct a custom character’s […]

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When Caitlin Clark Comes to Town

What happens when Caitlin Clark comes to town? Everyone else does, too. The Big Ten women’s basketball tournament, which starts Wednesday in Minneapolis, has sold out for the first time, at least in part thanks to Clark, the star point guard for Iowa and new record-holder for career scoring in Division I. Clark began her […]

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The New Rape Denialism

On Oct. 7, Hamas invaded Israel and filmed itself committing scores of human-rights atrocities. Some of the footage was later captured by the Israeli military and screened to hundreds of journalists, including me. The “pure, predatory sadism,” as Atlantic writer Graeme Wood described it, is bottomless. Yet Hamas denies that its men sexually assaulted Israelis, […]

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Shafiqah Hudson, Who Fought Trolls on Social Media, Dies at 46

Shafiqah Hudson was looking for a job in early June of 2014, toggling between Twitter and email, when she noticed an odd hashtag that was surging on the social media platform: #EndFathersDay. The posters claimed to be Black feminists, but they had laughable handles like @NayNayCan’tStop and @CisHate and @LatrineWatts; they declared they wanted to […]

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Global Warming Is Particularly Bad for Women-Led Families, Study Says

Extreme heat is making some of the world’s poorest women poorer. That is the stark conclusion of a report, released Tuesday, by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, based on weather and income data in 24 low- and middle-income countries. The report adds to a body of work that shows how global warming, driven […]

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‘Barbie’ Ruled the Box Office, but 2023 Was Tough for Women in Hollywood

When Greta Gerwig did not receive an Oscar nomination last month for best director for “Barbie,” despite the film’s nod for best picture and its status as a global box office phenomenon, the news revived scrutiny over gender diversity among the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ membership. The directors’ branch, which chooses the […]

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Comme des Garçons and Stella McCartney Make Some Noise

“I have anger against everything in the world, especially against myself.” Such was the explanation by Rei Kawakubo for a Comme des Garçons collection that was an explosion of chaotic femininity — bows and bustles and puffs and flounces — all in black, scarified by prints of barbed wire and chains, legs bound by ribbons. […]

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First U.S. Over-the-Counter Birth Control Pill Will Be Available Soon

Why It Matters The medication, called Opill, which was approved for over-the-counter sale by the Food and Drug Administration last year, will be the most effective birth control method available without a prescription, research shows — more effective than condoms, spermicides and other nonprescription methods. Reproductive health experts said that its availability could be especially […]

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North Carolina’s Bodacious Belles Thrive on Friendship and Fancy Footwork

The Bodacious Belles, a women’s group in Beaufort, N.C., shows the difference a network of support can make in an aging America. WHY WE’RE HERE We’re exploring how America defines itself one place at a time. In Beaufort, N.C., a group of women offers a window into what contemporary aging can be in a nation […]

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Olivia Rodrigo Guts World Tour: Testing Out Life After Girlhood

As a pop star, Olivia Rodrigo wields a rather unusual arsenal of weapons. She is an acute writer and an un-self-conscious singer. She largely abhors artifice. She is modest, not salacious. In just three years, she has achieved something approaching stratospheric fame — a four-times platinum debut album and a Grammy for best new artist […]

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Why Women Outnumber Men in South Korea’s Sports Stadiums

Each time the South Korean men’s soccer team scored against Singapore during a recent 5-0 rout in a World Cup qualifier, the roar from the home crowd came largely from women, who held nearly two-thirds of the tickets to the match. In the Seoul stadium that November day, a billboard-size banner for the star striker […]

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Shaken by Grisly Killings of Women, Activists in Africa Demand Change

A wave of gruesome killings of women across several African countries in recent weeks has prompted outrage and indignation, triggered a wave of protests and precipitated calls for governments to take decisive action against gender-based violence. Kenyans were shocked when 31 women were killed in January after they were beaten, strangled or beheaded, activists and […]

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What a Reported Trump Plan on Restricting Abortion Would Mean

A nationwide ban on abortions after 16 weeks of pregnancy — which Donald J. Trump is considering backing, according to a New York Times report — would prevent very few abortions in the United States. Mr. Trump, the front-runner to be the Republican presidential nominee, has not publicly spoken about the proposal. It would most […]

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Girl Power Was the Biggest Trend at New York Fashion Week

“Girl power, basically,” said Hillary Taymour, the designer of Collina Strada, backstage before her show at the start of New York Fashion Week. She wasn’t talking about bows and whistles; she was talking about the state of women in the world. “I wanted to make a wardrobe to take on anything,” Ms. Taymour said, standing […]

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With Addiction Recovery, It’s a Misperception That Nothing Works

This is the seventh in the series “How America Heals,” in which Nicholas Kristof examines the interwoven crises devastating working-class America and explores paths to recovery. .g-goldbergseriesinfo{ position: relative; display: flex; overflow: hidden; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 1.125rem 1.25rem 1.0625rem; border: 1px solid var(–color-stroke-quaternary,#DFDFDF); color: var(–color-content-secondary,#363636); max-width: 600px; margin: 1.3125rem auto 1.5rem; width: 100%; max-width: 600px; […]

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History, by and of Women

This week, I’ve been spending time in what I’ve come to think of as the Anne de Courcy extended universe. De Courcy, a British journalist and prolific author of popular history books, writes about the past through the stories of women of the era. Some of her books are biographies of famous figures, such as […]

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Children Whose Mothers Had Pregnancy Complications May Face Heart Risks

Women who develop high blood pressure or diabetes in the course of pregnancy are more likely to give birth to children who develop conditions that may compromise their own heart health at a young age, scientists reported on Monday. By the time they are 12 years old, these children are more likely to be overweight […]

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Andy Kim Wins a Vote Rich in Symbolism in Race to Replace Menendez

Representative Andy Kim, a third-term Democratic congressman, won an early but significant victory on Saturday against New Jersey’s first lady, Tammy Murphy, as they compete in one of the country’s most closely watched Senate primaries. Mr. Kim, 41, was selected as the Democratic Party’s nominee in Monmouth County during the first convention of its kind […]

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Endless Range, Boundless Swagger: Why Caitlin Clark Is Different

When Caitlin Clark moves — weaving through defensive traffic; waving unsubtly for a teammate’s pass; wriggling free enough to catch, fire, catch fire — people tend to follow. This instinct informs every opponent’s scouting report, to the extent that anybody can prepare one with confidence: a triple-underlined directive to shadow Clark, the biggest star in […]

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The Backlash to an Abortion Ban Helped Save Polish Democracy

Adam Bodnar, Poland’s new justice minister, recently explained to me the immense challenge of rebuilding liberal democracy in his country after an eight-year slide toward authoritarianism. Imagine, he said, that Donald Trump had won the last election and been in power for two terms instead of one. “What would be the damage?” he asked. After […]

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