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Cabinet Positions Only 22 women have held cabinet or cabinet-level positions in the historyof the United States. The following executive departments have never beenheaded by a woman: Treasury, Defense ...

Thriving in college is hard. The US News and World Report reports that only 62% of American college students graduate from a university within six years’ time. The reasons range from academic to ...

Loreen Arbus is a disability rights activist, philanthropist, producer, writer and author She is currently the president of The Loreen Arbus Foundation, The Goldenson-Arbus Foundation and Loreen Arbus ...

Credit: sean dreilinger on Flickr, under Creative Commons (WOMENSENEWS)– In a 2002 article, “Gender Equality: A Key to Our Future?,” Lena Sommestad, a women’s historian and then Swedish Social ...

“And then (blank) said (blank)!! Isn’t that funny?” What if you couldn’t fill in the blanks? What if sentences like these were perpetually incomplete, leaving you confused and excluded from ...

In her recent address before the United Nations Security Council, the Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict Pramila Patten delivered a searing account of the devastating and shocking ...

Eight months after the Taliban regained power in Afghanistan, Richard Bennett was appointed to be the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Afghanistan. The New Zealander has a ...

Bocanos Flores in Puebla, Mexico. Credit: Amy Lieberman MEXICO CITY (WOMENSENEWS)–The second time Deborah Alvarez was deported from the United States in 2005, after she was detained for prostitution ...

Women’s History Month has come and gone, and despite all the drama, we are still here and multitasking more than ever. However, imagine waking up one day to find all the women had simply vanished! No ...

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