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Gender

Patches cover the back of a Girl Scout's vest
Community

Girl Scouts rebuke Boy Scouts in escalating recruitment war

The Girl Scouts said the Boy Scouts’ marketing of expanded services for girls was “highly damaging to Girl Scouts” and had set off an “explosion of confusion."

5 years ago

Protesters at a news conference outside ICE's Atlanta field office in September after the release of a whistleblower report about conditions at Irwin County Detention Center in Ocilla, Ga. (Jeff Amy/AP)
NPR
Courts & Law

Dozens of women allege unwanted surgeries and medical abuse in ICE custody

More than 30 undocumented immigrants have come forward with allegations of medical abuse, according to court papers filed late Monday.

5 years ago

Yolanda Biggers helps her daughter, Zyiah Satterwhite, 7, find her assignment.  After the coronavirus pandemic hit, Biggers gave up her shifts as a part-time nurse to focus all of her attention on Zyiah and her two older sisters as they adapted to virtual schooling. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
The Why
Community

The struggle is real for working women during the pandemic

Not only are women serving as caregivers for family members and monitors over their children's virtual learning, but they're also more likely to lose their jobs in 2020.

Air Date: December 1, 2020

Listen 12:23
Former Vice President Joe Biden addresses a Planned Parenthood Action Fund candidate forum in June 2019 in Columbia, S.C. (Logan Cyrus/AFP via Getty Images)
NPR
Politics & Policy

What Joe Biden’s election means for abortion rights

Given the uncertainty around abortion rights in the courts, Biden campaigned on a proposal to codify Roe in federal law.

5 years ago

Neera Tanden, president and CEO of the Center for American Progress
NPR
Politics & Policy

Biden names all-female White House communications team; will tap Tanden for OMB

The president-elect has emphasized the elevation of women to key roles in his incoming administration.

5 years ago

FILE - In this Sept. 15, 2020, file photo, Dawn Wooten, left, a nurse at Irwin County Detention Center in Ocilla, Georgia, speaks at a news conference in Atlanta protesting conditions at the immigration jail. The U.S. government has agreed temporarily not to deport detained immigrant women who have alleged being abused by a rural Georgia gynecologist who was seeing patients at the detention center, according to court papers filed Tuesday, Nov. 24. (AP Photo/Jeff Amy, File)
Courts & Law

U.S. agrees for now to stop deporting women who alleged abuse

The DOJ and lawyers for several of the women agreed that immigration authorities would not carry out any deportations until mid-January.

5 years ago

Vice President-elect Kamala Harris speaks Saturday, Nov. 7, in Wilmington
NPR
Politics & Policy

Elation, frustration: For women, Kamala Harris’ win is a big step, but long overdue

Some women tell NPR the election of the U.S.'s first female, and first woman of color is a move in the right direction. Others say it's a reminder of how much work lies ahead.

5 years ago

State Rep. Joanna McClinton in 2019, with constituents at the fall festival in her native Southwest Philadelphia. (Joanna McClinton/Facebook)
Politics & Policy
Billy Penn

There’s a Black woman leader in Harrisburg: Joanna McClinton makes history

The new Pa. House minority leader is a ‘fierce’ criminal justice advocate — and an ordained preacher.

5 years ago

Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., took it upon herself to help boost women's numbers in a party dominated by white men. (Jacquelyn Martin/AP Photo)
NPR
Politics & Policy

How a record number of Republican women got elected to Congress

The number of GOP women elected in 2020 pales in comparison with Democrats' numbers, but their increased representation may attest to the power of focused recruitment efforts.

5 years ago

Brick House, a sixteen-foot statue of a Black woman's head atop a domed pedestal.
Arts & Entertainment

A new ‘gateway’ sculpture: UPenn installs Black woman monument

“Brick House” by Simone Leigh draws attention to the importance of Black women in art and culture.

5 years ago

Heather Wilcox-Nicholls lost her job with Mattress Firm during the pandemic. She had been with the company for about five years and was about to take on a new store as a manager. (Krista Rossow for NPR)
NPR
Money

These women built careers in retail. The pandemic tore through their stores

Women hold the majority of jobs in clothing and department stores, gift and souvenir shops. Now thousands of stores have shuttered, leaving them jobless.

5 years ago

Visitors wait in line before a 2020 campaign rally for President Donald Trump on Dec. 10, 2019, at the Giant Center in Hershey, Pennsylvania. (Matt Smith for WITF/PA Post)
Radio Times
Politics & Policy

Battleground 2020: Western Pennsylvania and suburban women

We look at Trump's relationship with suburban women in the state and what the newest polls tell us about how western Pennsylvania will vote this election.

Air Date: October 30, 2020

Listen 49:45
Illustration of mother holding father while two children vie for her attention
NPR
Community

Stuck-at-home moms: The pandemic’s devastating toll on women

Women have made great strides. But the uncomfortable truth is that in their homes, they're still fitting into stereotypical roles of doing the bulk of housework and parenting.

5 years ago

An illustration of doctors
NPR
Health

Female doctors spend more time with patients, but earn less money than men

Female physicians spend more time with each patient than male doctors do and their patients report higher satisfaction. But the extra time adds up and results in less money.

5 years ago

Anti-abortion-rights activists participate in the March for Life rally near the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 24. (Susan Walsh/AP Photo)
NPR
Courts & Law

A world without legal abortion: How activists envision a ‘post-Roe’ nation

With the confirmation of Judge Amy Coney Barrett, anti-abortion activists hope for a world where ending an unwanted pregnancy is not an option.

5 years ago

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