Chile’s environment minister Maisa Rojas talks during an interview with Reuters in Santiago, Chile May 12, 2022. Picture taken May 12, 2022. REUTERS/Rodrigo Garrido Men usually outnumber and outrank women negotiators in climate talks, except when…
As they watched House Speaker Nancy Pelosi step forward to wrangle an unruly Congress over the years or stare down a bombastic president, many women across the country saw a version…
Everyone has heard of Amelia Earhart, the great aviator. Or Florence Nightingale, the revered statistician. But what about Isabella Bird, the 4ft 11in Victorian adventurer who rode 800 miles across Colorado solo on a horse? The tragedy…
A record number of women will be elected to Congress this year, CNN projects – but barely. The 149 women who will serve in the US House and Senate in the 118th Congress will expand…
In Iran's game against England at the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, fans held protest banners and booed the country's national anthem – which Iranian players chose not to sing.
The first female prime minister of Italy wears Armani. It began in late October, when Giorgia Meloni, the founder of the hard-right Brothers of Italy party and the leader of the conservative…
On a quiet residential street, teenage girls with school bags swiftly entered a large green gate. They were dressed in traditional garb, their faces covered, and many were holding copies of the Quran, Islam’s holy…
“She Who Wrote,” an exhibition at the Morgan Library, explores the world of an ancient Mesopotamian priestess who wrote with a strikingly personal voice.
At the edge of the Florida Everglades, the black soil of Muck City is known for producing two things: football players and sugar cane. The small communities of Pahokee and Belle Glade have a reputation…
Kathryn Nesbitt had spent a decade balancing parallel careers in analytical chemistry and soccer officiating when, in 2019, she put her scientific brain to work and synthesized a solution for the most…