Celebrate #WomenInScience with these 7 talented girls and women
BY REBECCA RUIZ From Mashable Women have long contributed to and transformed scientific knowledge, but they aren’t always widely recognized for their hard, brilliant work.Now that the International Day of Women and Girls in Science (#WomenInScience) is upon us, take…
Thread about women’s choice of language at work will challenge everything you’ve been told
BY RACHEL THOMPSON From Mashable Women have a lot to contend with in the workplace. If they’re not getting mansplained, hepeated, or harassed, they’re being told they need to think, talk, and act like men. But, this Twitter thread by…
Latin America advances in female participation, but inequalities persist in
By Radio Cadena Agramonte United Nations, Feb 16.- Latin America and the Caribbean experienced the highest increase in terms of employment and participation of women in the labor force reported in the developing regions over the last decade. He explained…
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Russian court rejects mother’s adoption bid after breast surgery
From BBC A Russian court has ruled that a woman who chose to have her breasts removed cannot look after two adopted boys since she identifies herself as a man. The long-running case of Yulia Savinovskikh affects two mentally disabled…
In search of surrogates
In search of surrogates, foreign couples descend on Ukraine By Kevin Ponniah From BBC News Ukraine, one of Europe’s poorest nations, is fast becoming the place to go for people desperate to find a surrogate to have their baby. The…
Embark’s self-driving semi completes trip from California to Florida
By Mallory Locklear, From engadget Last year, autonomous trucking company Embark announced that it would begin using its Level 2 autonomous semis to deliver refrigerators from Texas to California. Now, TechCrunch reports, the company has taken it a step further…
Regional Consultations in Latin America and the Caribbean leading up to the UN Commission on the Status of Women call for rights and dignity of rural women
From UN Women Regional consultations for Latin America and the Caribbean in the lead up to the 62nd UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW62) started on 6 February in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. The consultation convened Ministers and…
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UK doctors plan country’s first three-person fertilization procedure
By Mallory Locklear From engadget Two women with MERRF syndrome will undergo the treatment. UK officials have approved two women for mitochondrial replacement therapy, the fertilization procedure that results in a baby technically parented by three people, the Guardian reports….
Bustle is raising roughly $30 million to go on a shopping spree
By Jonathan Shieber From TechCrunch Bustle, the everything blog for millennial women, is hustling to close on around $30 million in new funding as it goes on the prowl for new acquisitions. It’s a significant cash infusion for a company that…
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NOW weighs in on ‘abuse of power’ case in St Vincent
By Colville Mounsey From Barbados Today At a time when the “Me Too” movement has brought worldwide attention to the plight of women who are sexually assaulted and harassed in the workplace, the plight of a Vincentian woman caught up…
