Burma Bakehouse Helps Disadvantaged Women Thirty-nine-year-old Ma Moe Nge is learning to bake and said that when her nine-month apprenticeship is over she wants to start her own bakery. Before, I only saw this kind of food, but I didnt know how to ma...
Abduction Prompts Girl to Fight Back for All Women Jessup produced Just Yell Fire, a self-defense video for high school girls, in 2006. Last summer, she produced a second film for college women highlighting the dangers on campus and focusing on ways...
Women Helping Women Deal with HIV Young, pregnant and HIV positive. Its a situation many women in sub-Saharan Africa found themselves in during the course of the AIDS epidemic. But since 2001, a program called Mentor Mothers has helped about one mill...
Over a Billion Women Lack Safe Sanitation November 19 is World Toilet Day. Its estimated that more than a billion women lack access to safe sanitation. The NGO WaterAid says a lack of adequate toilets puts women at risk of shame, disease, harassment...
Why Men Are Becoming More Like Women In its recent special on the state of American women, Time magazine announced that the gender wars were over and declared a tie. It's no longer a man's world, Time concluded. Nor is it a woman's nation. It's a coo...
Initiative Empowers Rural Women October 15th is International Day of Rural Women. The United Nations says rural women play a critical role in development, food security and eradicating poverty. Four U.N. agencies recently launched a five year initiat...
LONDON, Aug. 10 (Xinhua) -- The USA women's 4X100 meters quartet smashed the world record as they won the gold medal in the Olympic Stadium on Friday night. The US quarter of Tianna Madison, Allyson Felix, Bianca Knight and Carmelita Jeter shattered...
US Bead Parties Boost Ugandan Women Its party time for Madison Blandford and three dozen of her girlfriends. The 11-year-old invited her classmates and neighbors to see - and buy - beaded jewelry made by women in Uganda. My grandma got me a bracelet,...
Fistula Surgery Changes Nigerian Women's Lives Allowing the patient to live a normal life and giving her back some dignity is the objective of this surgery performed in Jahun hospital, in northeast Nigeria. Since 2008, the aid group Doctors Without B...
New French President Francois Hollande is putting the pieces in place to forge ahead with a new path for the European economic power. Aides announced Wednesday the formation of the new French Cabinet, one day after the Socialist politician was sworn...
