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Khady Sy Savane in her boutique, Mia Dreams, in the Goutte D'Or section of Paris. Many of her designs incorporate African wax print fabrics with names like "your foot my foot."

This designer combines African fabrics with Paris couture

Arts

The Goutte D’Or neighborhood in Paris is home to a group of fashion designers who combine traditional African wax prints and western designs to make something completely new.The Goutte D’Or neighborhood in Paris is home to a group of fashion designers who combine traditional African wax prints and western designs to make something completely new.

Virginia Raggi, 5-Star Movement candidate for Rome's mayor, casts her vote at a polling station in Rome, Italy, on June 19, 2016.

After emperors and popes, Rome opts for first woman mayor

Global Politics
Brazil's Chief of Staff Eliseu Padilha, interim President Michel Temer, Finance Minister Henrique Meirelles are seen during the first ministerial meeting at the Planalto Palace in Brasilia, Brazil, May 13, 2016.

Here’s why Brazil’s new cabinet is all men

Global Politics
Six of GM's "Damsels of Design," photographed circa 1955. From left: Suzanne Vanderbilt, Ruth Glennie, Marjorie Ford Pohlman, Harley Earl, Jeanette Linder, Sandra Logyear, Peggy Sauer.

The ‘Damsels of Design,’ women who changed automotive history

Technology
Martine Warren, a scientific advisor to the Bank of Canada, demonstrates how to view a security feature on the new polymer Canadian 100 dollar bill to reveal hidden numbers when pointed at a single point light source in Toronto November 14, 2011.

Canada to beat US in getting a Canadian woman on its banknotes

Finance
Yanti

The food shop is tiny, but it represents something big for her: freedom

Business

In Indonesia, a growing number of women are speaking up to report violence and finding the economic means to get out of abusive marriages.

Air India's all women crew celebrating the proud moment before their longest flight, Delhi - San Francisco, take-off.

For Women’s Day, Air India operates the longest flight ever crewed by only women

Development

Air India’s all-woman flights are aimed at encouraging young girls who have dreams of getting into the skies.

Vickie Remoe

It’s not just Kesha. Women face demands for transactional sex all over the world.

Business

Vickie Remoe says she left her career as a TV host in Sierra Leone after being propositioned one time too many.

Despite being experienced and well-educated, women of color still get way less funding on average than their white male counterparts.

Female entrepreneurs of color have a hard time getting the money men to open their wallets

Business

Despite being the fastest growing group of entrepreneurs, women of color have a hard time raising capital to support their ventures.

Sabina family

The face of Target (and others) in Bangladesh, at 400 pieces an hour

Business

A “Made in Bangladesh” tag on clothing typically also means “made by women,” because they make up 80 percent of the country’s garment-factory workforce. Many of them send the money they earn back to villages in the countryside.