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Lubna Olayan Broke Saudi Arabia's Glass Ceiling. Now She Wants More Women To Work
NPR - Jackie Northam , Fatma Tanis
Lubna Olayan remembers the date. It was April 15, 1983, when she and her father sat down to dinner in Riyadh. Olayan and her American husband, John Xefos, had just returned to her native Saudi Arabia after nine years in the United States. "Over dinner he says 'Lubna, what are you going to be doing …
Women in the World
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In ‘Handmaid’s Tale’ and ‘Homeland,’ two heroines judged by their devotion to motherhood
The Washington Post - Hank Stuever
Timeliness was “The Handmaid’s Tale” big draw last year, premiering a few months after President Trump took office while he quickly showed an affinity for those working from a neo-nationalist playbook. With half the country hyped up from hourly outrages and all too eager to envision a dark descent …
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Republicans left behind in blue Democratic wave of new women candidates
CNN - Kyung Lah
Tucson, Arizona CNN — Dressed in a blue flight suit adorned with a US flag and her name, Martha McSally, the US Congresswoman representing this Tucson, Arizona crowd, scanned the airline hangar filled with supporters. Saluting, as the retired Colonel is well accustomed to doing from her 26 years in …
https://womenintheworld.com/2018/04/14/what-does-consent-look-like-in-the-metoo-era/
Women in the World
Apr 14, 2018