ON this year’s International Women’s Day, a time to celebrate the achievements of women and to challenge the status quo, it is impossible to overlook a longstanding practice in Nigeria’s legal ...

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Two women born on the Chagos Islands are seeking to take the British government to court over a proposed deal to transfer sovereignty of the disputed Indian Ocean archipelago ...

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Dworkin published Right-Wing Women in 1983 as second-wave feminism faded and the Reagan revolution got underway. There was ...

The Senate passed a six-month spending bill Friday, hours before a government shutdown, overcoming sharp Democratic opposition to the measure and sending it to President Donald Trump to be signed into ...

Lafontant was born Jewel Carter Stradford in 1922 to a prominent African American family. Her father, C. Francis Stradford, ...

This from the liberal president of Harvard who was backing Woodrow Wilson. So that shows you where women were at that point. The Progressive Party ensured that women would be represented on the ...

Standup comedian, famous for her critiques of social ... First woman to chair the Democratic platform committee, first female vice-presidential candidate for a major party. Gabby Giffords, 1970-.

Nigerian women ... the President’s gender inclusion policies. The minister, joined by Dr. Asabe Vilita, Director General of the National Centre for Women Development (NCWD), and other top ...