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At the Police Training Academy in Madison, Wis., there are 46 recruits in two groups for the class of 2022. Nikki Acker, 36, is one of nine female trainees in the group who are new to policing.
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The board’s post-Roe conundrum. Years ago, if you had told a corporate director that access to abortion would become a governance issue, they might have laughed you out of the boardroom.
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A newly unveiled proposal aimed at reforming the Electoral Count Act, a widely criticized 135-year-old law governing the process of casting and counting Electoral College votes, has garnered widespread support among election experts. The 1887…
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Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., paid tribute to the Women's Suffrage Movement while wearing the symbolic suffragist color of white during her closing remarks Thursday at the Jan. 6 Select Committee Hearing. Sarah Matthews and Cassidy Hutchinson testify.
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Sonya Bonczek wanted to make sure she was inviting all of her son’s favorite kids to his fourth birthday party, which is in August. But she quickly realized she didn’t have all of their parents’ email addresses, and her son’s…
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An investigation that has revealed grave threats to democracy, plotted and carried out mostly by men, has a heavily female cast of narrators who have paid a public price for speaking out.
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The three women will serve five-year terms in the Vatican office that vets candidates, enhancing the role of women in the church’s operations.
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On the morning of Aug. 15, 2021, seventeen-year-old athlete Farzana* woke up and prepared to run twenty kilometers down the streets of Kabul, as she did every morning. She was training for her upcoming track…
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Renowned ethologist and conservationist Dr Jane Goodall will now have a Barbie in her likeness as part of Mattel’s Inspiring Women Series.
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Taking on one of the most urgent issues in American political and legal life, UCLA School of Law Professor Richard Hasen has launched the Safeguarding Democracy Project to focus on ensuring…