Women are often paid far less than men, while they also perform most of the world's unpaid care work. © Mariana Ceratti/World Bank
Women are emerging as a major force for change. Countries that have invested in girls' education and removed legal barriers that prevent women from achieving their potential are now seeing the benefits.
Let's take Latin America. More than 70 million women have joined the labor...
Meet 100-Year-Old Dancer Eileen Kramer, One Of The Oldest Choreographers In The World
"Everything happens at 100, everything changes," Eileen Kramer told the Sydney Morning Herald. The enchanting dancer and choreographer has been receiving more attention than usual since she's entered triple digits, an age she describes as "magical."
However, more impressive than the fact that she dances at all is how she dances, with soft and sinuous gestures that move like billowing folds of fabric.
Kramer...
'If I Had Stayed, They Would Have Killed Me': The Nigerians Fleeing Boko Haram
Kellou Abakar knew she was in trouble as the contractions started, not long after the Islamic extremist group Boko Haram attacked her town in Nigeria. Her husband was nowhere to be found, and so she pulled her four-year-old son onto her back and grabbed her two little girls by the hand.
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