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World Hijab Day is an annual event founded by Nazma Khan in 2013. Nazma Khan is an American-Bangladeshi Muslim woman living in New York.

State lawmakers kicked off this year’s legislative session with a prolonged debate to amend the dress code for women lawmakers, who make less than of the state legislatures. The legislature debates changes to House rules at the start of the General Assembly every two years. Wednesday’s debate largely hinged around women’s right to bare arms, on the House floor.

“We Will Not Be Beaten”; is a title of a newly-released documentary produced by the Press TV Agency.

Same-sex marriage was declared legal in all American states by the US Supreme Court on June 26, 2015. So, the United States became the 18th country to recognize same-sex marriage.…

The word “woman” is “inseparable from the story of 2022”, according to Dictionary.com, which is why they have selected it as their Word of the Year. Dictionary.com also declared their…

The number of pregnant women and new mothers dying from drug overdoses grew dramatically as the pandemic took hold, reaching a record high in 2020, a new study finds. The research, published Tuesday…

This year, lawmakers in more than 20 states have passed a plan to ban transgender kids from girls’ sports, under the guise of protecting women and girls. Bills have already…

Drinking too much has been increasingly killing Americans for nearly two decades. These deaths increased during the COVID19 pandemic. Excessive drinking is increasingly killing middle-aged adults — this started from…

Latest study shows that, on average, more than five women or girls were killed every hour by intimate partners or other family members in 2021. On the occasion of the…

Julia Boorstin ’00 is the author of When Women Lead: What They Achieve, Why They Succeed, How We Can Learn From Them. She is also CNBC’s senior media and tech…