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400 years ago, a trailblazer: Rediscovered, and remembered, today

July 13, 2016Arts

Artemisia Gentileschi was “one of the most remarkable women in the history of western art,” says Richard Savino, artistic director of the music ensemble El Mundo, whose newest CD was inspired by the Baroque painter.

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

February 24, 2016Business

16 women around the world who are standing up to violence

February 19, 2016Justice

Just like that: As number of widows grow, widowhood is changing in Nepal

December 27, 2015Culture

The story of one girl who fought abduction, and the lawyers who saved her life

October 22, 2015Justice

In Iran, where the women school the men on surfing

June 10, 2015Education

People were welcoming, but they were surprised, when a team of modestly dressed women surfers showed up in a remote corner of Iran. They had never seen surfing before. “Because we were only women in the water, they thought it was a sport for women,” says French director Marion Poizeau. “So the men asked us if they could also do it.”

These women show what it looks like to survive Ebola in Liberia

April 10, 2015Health

Photographer Keiko Hiromi recently documented grassroots efforts by Liberian NGOs to fight Ebola and the stigma impacting survivors.

When a country has problems, women are often the answer

February 2, 2015Justice

Twenty years ago, the Beijing International Conference on Women reviewed the research and declared that raising the status of women was a linchpin for global development. Join PRI’s The World as we explore how far we’ve come and what it means to combat gender inequality in our Across Women’s Lives coverage.

A Haitian city, juxtaposed with a billboard featuring the Statue of Liberty

From the blood and dust of Haiti’s quake, a bond

January 12, 2015Development

She survived Haiti’s quake. Her neighbor did not. The blood and dust of that disaster bound together an American anthropologist and her neighbor’s niece in ways they did not imagine.