Gender
Philly women veterans celebrate five years of sharing and caring for each other
The Women's Center at the Veterans Multi-Service Center in Old City Philadelphia celebrates five years of helping female veterans adapt to civilian life.
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Listen 4:48Women’s March divisions offer lessons for Democrats on managing a big tent
The first Women's March was one of the largest protest days in American history. Now, some are disillusioned with the Women's March movement itself.
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Why ‘Surviving R. Kelly’ has some black women feeling more included in #MeToo
Why have many black girls and women felt the social media movement that has exposed the misdeeds of powerful men has left them behind, until now?
Air Date: January 17, 2019
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Listen 49:00Judge blocks Trump birth control policy in 13 states and D.C.
A federal judge has blocked a Trump rule that would greatly expand the number of employers that could decline to offer contraceptive coverage on moral or religious grounds.
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The push to break up the boys’ club at the Fed
At a time when more women than men are graduating from college and earning doctorates, just a third of Ph.D.s in economics go to women.
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An open letter to R. Kelly: We hear your accusers
Meet our outrage. Much of the black community is sickened by what we saw in the Lifetime documentary, “Surviving R. Kelly."
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Gov. Wolf stands against proposed Title IX changes
About $1 million dollars is going out to 38 colleges around the Commonwealth to fund efforts against campus sexual assault.
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Black directors had a big year in 2018 — but other inclusion numbers stagnated
Black directors had a "banner year" in 2018, according to the USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative.
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Millions of women in India join hands to form a 385-mile wall of protest
Even as women of all ages lined up on one side of the highway, many of their menfolk — husbands, friends and relatives — lined up on the other side to show their support.
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What it looks like to have a record number of women in the House of Representatives
One hundred twenty-seven. That's how many women will be in Congress this year, up from 110 in the previous Congress. It's a jump that's simultaneously so big and so small.
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The fierce female characters of film in 2018
In 2018, movie theaters offered a range of explorations of women and power: how they wield it, fight for it, abuse it.
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Pa. Supreme Court rules mothers’ drug use in pregnancy isn’t child abuse
The court's main opinion issued Friday says the law's definition of a child doesn't include fetuses or unborn children, and it says victims of perpetrators must be children.
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Violence Against Women Act expires because of government shutdown
VAWA funds and administers numerous programs assisting survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault.
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Mrs. Claus is coming to town — and not as Santa's sidekick
America's Santa industry has long been a male-dominated one. An estimated 5,000 professional performers break out their Santa caps each winter.
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