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This old Malaysian house renovation builds on the spirit of its original women owners

Development

The women-led organization is revamping the place and plans to use it as a home base as well as an ecotourism draw.

a female prisoner holds her baby in a room with laundry hanging

Salvadoran women bond serving long sentences for the ‘crime’ of miscarriage

Women & Gender
A woman laborer watches television inside her house at the compound of a brick factory at Libbar Hari in the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand.

Have things improved for women in India’s ads? A bit.

Lifestyle
The salaries of female bosses are 35 percent lower than their male colleagues.

If the women in your office don’t make as much as the men, here’s what to do about it

Business
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