Impact
How a Texas hospital is fighting a condition that kills pregnant women
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/texas-hospital-fighting-condition-kills-pregnant-women-rcna153450
Toronto awarded WNBA’s 1st team outside U.S., to play in ’26
https://www.espn.com/wnba/story/_/id/40202150/toronto-awarded-wnba-1st-team-us-play-26
Island’s first long-term substance-use recovery program for women expected to open in late fall
https://www.timescolonist.com/local-news/islands-first-long-term-substance-use-recovery-program-for-women-expected-to-open-in-late-fall-8792114
‘It hurts’: First Nations leader says little change for women’s safety since Pickton murders
https://bc.ctvnews.ca/it-hurts-first-nations-leader-says-little-change-for-women-s-safety-since-pickton-murders-1.6896051
Artificial Intelligence and gender equality
https://www.unwomen.org/en/news-stories/explainer/2024/05/artificial-intelligence-and-gender-equality
Young women in Rio favela hope to overcome poverty and violence to play in Women’s World Cup in 2027
https://www.thestar.com/sports/soccer/young-women-in-rio-favela-hope-to-overcome-poverty-and-violence-to-play-in-womens/article_19479c22-7cb4-52ce-9001-0e754a5982e8.html
Pope Francis voices firm opposition to women deacons in CBS interview
https://www.ncronline.org/vatican/vatican-news/pope-francis-voices-firm-opposition-women-deacons-cbs-interview
Woman with liver failure rejected for a transplant after medical review highlights alcohol use
https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/woman-with-liver-failure-rejected-for-a-transplant-after-medical-review-highlights-alcohol-use-1.6891489
Benedictine College nuns denounce Harrison Butker’s speech at their school
https://www.npr.org/2024/05/19/1252357764/harrison-butker-benedictine-college-commencement-nuns-denounce
Advocates want changes to police investigating police gender-based violence accusations
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/alternative-investigate-police-gender-based-violence-cases-1.7198983
Nigerian activists condemn mass ‘forced marriages’ of 100 girls and young women
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/16/nigeria-activists-mass-forced-marriage-girls-young-women
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Kylie Kelce has an inferiority complex about her ‘Deadbeat’ Elf on the Shelf
https://www.glamour.com/story/kylie-kelce-has-an-inferiority-complex-about-her-deadbeat-elf-on-the-shelf
Women’s body hair shouldn’t be controversial. It’s time to stop policing our physical choices
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/dec/20/womens-body-hair-shouldnt-be-controversial-its-time-to-stop-policing-our-physical-choices
Djerf Avenue founder Matilda Djerf apologises amid allegations of workplace bullying by employees
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-18/matilda-djerf-apologises-workplace-bullying-allegations-/104739748
