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At the top of Dawn Staley’s stacked trophy case is an orange and white basketball. The University of South Carolina women’s basketball head coach said the ball was…
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Women have been able to close the pay gap with men in several U.S. metropolitan areas, and have surpassed their male counterparts in many cities, according to a…
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Brigadier General Denise Donnell was sworn in Saturday as the new commander of the 5,900-member New York Air National Guard, the aerial arm of the New York National Guard. She is…
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In recent decades, women have made significant strides in obtaining leadership positions in local governments. While only one percent of chief administrative officers were women in the mid-1970s, the percentage increased to 20…
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Mary Sheffield became the youngest person ever to be electedto the Detroit City Council in 2013 at just 26 years old. At the start of 2022,…
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The Senate has voted 53 to 47 to confirm Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson as the 116th Supreme Court justice. When sworn in this summer, Jackson will be the first Black woman to serve…
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The world is well aware that the climate crisis is one of the main stumbling blocks to sustainable development. And yet, despite the dramatic evidence of the lethal consequences of climate change, and despite possessing…
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Five Ukrainian women, all members of parliament, left Kyiv this week for Washington — but only long enough to ask in person for more help before heading back into danger. Driving the news: “We are mothers.
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A San Diego appeals court judge who is the daughter of Mexican immigrants was confirmed Tuesday as the first Latina to serve on the California Supreme Court. Justice Patricia Guerrero was approved by a…
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It was Chancellor Olaf Scholz who, three days after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, broke with Germany’s postwar pacifism, vowing to give his country the necessary resources and muscle…