women

With Trump's crackdown on DEI, some women fear a path to good-paying jobs will close

5:00am March 20, 2025

Some fear a setback for women and people of color after President Trump revoked a 1965 executive order that required federal contractors to identify and address barriers to employment.

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In a workforce transformed by war, Ukrainian women are now working in coal mines

10:58am January 07, 2025

War has changed Ukraine's workforce, especially in heavy industry and mining. With men conscripted to fight the war against Russia, women have started working in traditionally male jobs.

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Women's Strike Held In Chicago On Second Anniversary Of The Overturning Of Roe v. Wade

Why abortion referendums are also about the economy

8:00am October 31, 2024

Abortion is on the ballot in 10 states. The vote results will have consequences beyond women's reproductive rights.

"Hidden Figures" Scientists Posthumously Honored With Congressional Gold Medal

NASA's 'Hidden Figures' awarded Congressional Gold Medals for pioneering space work

3:48pm September 19, 2024

A group of Black female scientists and mathematicians known as NASA's “Hidden Figures” were honored Wednesday with Congressional Gold Medals, the highest award given to citizens by Congress.

Afghan women sing to protest a law that orders them to keep quiet

7:57am September 12, 2024

A new morality law is full of restrictions. No neckties for men. Photos cannot be reproduced. The harshest rules are for women — who are singing out on social media to protest the ban on singing.

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The Guilford County mobile WIC unite sits in the parking lot of a county building in Greensboro, N.C., on Monday, Aug. 5, 2024.

Health & Safety

Guilford County's mobile WIC unit is meeting residents where they are

5:07pm August 06, 2024

by Santiago Ochoa

For just over three months workers at the Guilford County Women, Infants and Children, or WIC, Clinic have been hopping into a Ford Transit Van and hitting the open road.

Health & Safety

Prize for the eyes: WHO honors film on Indonesia's pioneering women eye docs

10:41am August 02, 2024

by Vicky Hallett

The short documentary is called The Visionary Women of Indonesia. It profiles women ophthalmologists who are addressing the high rate of blindness in their country — and fighting sexism as well.

Anti-abortion activists who describe themselves as "abolitionists" protest outside a fertility clinic in North Carolina in April 2024.

Politics & Government

Republicans try to soften stance on abortion as 'abolitionists' go farther

7:30pm May 21, 2024

by Sarah McCammon

Activists who describe themselves as "abortion abolitionists" want to charge women who have abortions with homicide and ban the fertility treatment known as IVF, saying life begins at conception.

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At the National STEM Festival, 12th-grader Treyonna Sullivan talks with visitors about her "Project Poop," created to encourage pet owners in her community to dispose of their pet's waste.

Women of color still lag behind in STEM jobs, despite efforts to change

9:59pm April 20, 2024

by Marisa Peñaloza

STEM careers are still lagging when it comes to hiring women of color.

Women are shown at a rally to celebrate International Women's Day on March 8, 2024 in Seoul, South Korea. Participants of the rally advocated for a society free from institutional discrimination, one where women can enjoy equal rights with men.

World News

Elections reveal a growing gender divide across South Korea

3:33am April 10, 2024

by Se Eun Gong

While many other developed countries are observing a similar phenomenon, experts say South Korea's fast social development and politicization of gender issues make its case particularly intense.