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A 2020 report by Human Rights Watch has revealed how four decades of war have left Afghanistan with one of the world’s largest populations per capita for people with disabilities, including many with amputations, vision or hearing problems, and post-traumatic stress disorder. But the true size and circumstances of Afghanistan’s disabled population remain uncertain, since policymaking is…
Meredith Wilson, a teacher in Seattle, said “Historically privileged, either privileged socioeconomically and racially white people, rich people, have always had options. Abortion isn’t just new for a lower income or black and brown women. I think it’s for all women. But having this access to an abortion pill gives black and brown and lower…
Dilma Mendes does not remember how many times she was arrested as a child. Her crime? Playing football in Brazil. The country may be synonymous with the beautiful game, but it banned women from the sport for nearly four decades until 1979. Ahead of the Women’s World Cup starting next week in Australia and New…
There is a moment, several chapters into Elizabeth Winder’s “Parachute Women: Marianne Faithfull, Marsha Hunt, Bianca Jagger, Anita Pallenberg, and the Women Behind the Rolling Stones” that quietly justifies the book’s existence. In the biographical introduction of the section about aspiring R&B artist Marsha Hunt — before her life is rerouted by bearing Mick Jagger’s…
Youth is still prized as a superpower in society, including where you work. Research has found that people are more likely to automatically assume you are more ambitious, intelligent and tech-savvy when you are thought to be younger. But in the workplace, being young or looking young can also be wielded against women. In a new preliminary study featured…
Suspected pedophile and former fashion mogul Peter Nygard was arrested on more sex crime charges, this time for a 1993 case in which he’s accused of sexually assaulting a 20-year-old at his company’s headquarters in Canada. Winnipeg, Manitoba, police obtained an arrest warrant on Monday for city native Nygard, 81, after months of investigation into…
