Gender equality and equal pay – through skateboarding
Jerusalem-based female skaters shake things up and tip the scales in the rhetoric for gender equality
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Mom was ‘crushing her dreams.’ Now, a Rock Hill girl is realizing them in football
Sarah Pittman, daughter of Rock Hill High School varsity football coach Bubba Pittman, loves all things football. The 11-year-old finally convinced her parents to let her play in a youth league.
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Kiva – Loans that change lives
Support women, entrepreneurs, students and refugees around the world with as little as $25 on Kiva. 100% of your loan go to support borrowers.
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‘It’s for my daughter’s memory’: the Indian village where every girl’s life is celebrated
Stricken with grief over his daughter’s death, the chief of Piplantri village declared that every newborn girl would have a tree planted in her honour
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1,600 scientists rebuke Cern physicist over gender bias
Alessandro Strumia hits back at petition sparked by claim physics was built by men
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W Series launched in move to help promote female F1 drivers
The W Series, which will start next year, aims to boost female participation but has been criticised for ‘segregating women’
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‘It was a spectacle’: the forgotten era of women’s bicycle racing
Roger Gilles tells the story of the 1890s women who fought stereotypes to become professional cyclists in his new book Women on the Move
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