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Owning It

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Khady Sy Savane in her boutique, Mia Dreams, in the Goutte D'Or section of Paris. Many of her designs incorporate African wax print fabrics with names like "your foot my foot."
Arts
This designer combines African fabrics with Paris couture
Virginia Raggi, 5-Star Movement candidate for Rome's mayor, casts her vote at a polling station in Rome, Italy, on June 19, 2016.
Global Politics
After emperors and popes, Rome opts for first woman mayor
Brazil's Chief of Staff Eliseu Padilha, interim President Michel Temer, Finance Minister Henrique Meirelles are seen during the first ministerial meeting at the Planalto Palace in Brasilia, Brazil, May 13, 2016.
Global Politics
Here’s why Brazil’s new cabinet is all men
Six of GM's "Damsels of Design," photographed circa 1955. From left: Suzanne Vanderbilt, Ruth Glennie, Marjorie Ford Pohlman, Harley Earl, Jeanette Linder, Sandra Logyear, Peggy Sauer.
Technology
The ‘Damsels of Design,’ women who changed automotive history
Martine Warren, a scientific advisor to the Bank of Canada, demonstrates how to view a security feature on the new polymer Canadian 100 dollar bill to reveal hidden numbers when pointed at a single point light source in Toronto November 14, 2011.
Finance
Canada to beat US in getting a Canadian woman on its banknotes
Yanti
Business
The food shop is tiny, but it represents something big for her: freedom
Air India's all women crew celebrating the proud moment before their longest flight, Delhi - San Francisco, take-off.
Development
For Women’s Day, Air India operates the longest flight ever crewed by only women
Vickie Remoe
Business
It’s not just Kesha. Women face demands for transactional sex all over the world.
Despite being experienced and well-educated, women of color still get way less funding on average than their white male counterparts.
Business
Female entrepreneurs of color have a hard time getting the money men to open their wallets
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Business
The face of Target (and others) in Bangladesh, at 400 pieces an hour
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Books
Once a refugee, she’s opened one of Liberia’s few bookstores, where children can read about themselves
Muthoni Ndonga, outside a Java House in Nairobi, Kenya.
Arts
Muthoni the Drummer Queen rules Kenya’s music scene
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Business
Ghana’s market women were once so powerful they were targeted by the military
Kansiime Anne
Arts
East Africa’s ‘Queen of Comedy’ is as progressive as she is funny
Kenyan Afro-pop singer Dela
Music
You need to listen to this Swahili cover of ‘Hello’
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Arts
In Prague, two new mothers harnessed the power of play and started a business
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Business
Faye Orlove finds ‘goddesses’ among celebrities — and enshrines them in her art
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Business
My career left no room for motherhood — now I advocate for working moms
Olive Wanjiru
Health
In Kenya’s version of ‘The Biggest Loser,’ contestants win for healthy living, not just dropping pounds
A yoga class for girls and young mothers in the slum of Kariobangi. Mothers bring their kids to class.
Culture
‘When we were doing yoga, they forgot their differences’
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Culture
Meet the Maasai women of Laikipia, in photos
Priscilla Lekootoot shows how she harvests leaves from the aloe secundiflora plants at Twala Cultural Manyatta.
Business
How Maasai women in Kenya are helping to make your cosmetics
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Business
Ei Ei Khin’s seed bombs are for the bees
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Business
For Brooklyn metal worker Mia Anter, ‘feeling around in the dark’ is part of the process
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Media
Satirical ad agency Jane Street believes your vagina makes you a prime candidate for empowerment
Deepa Desoja
Business
‘Women … I think we’re our own worst enemies’ when it comes to design
She Made It
Business
#SheMadeIt: Women are making cool stuff, worldwide
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Business
Bethlehem Tilahun Alemu’s sustainable shoes are lifting up her Addis Ababa community
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Business
How does your life stack up against a Kenyan woman’s?
Environment
She’s one of only seven female guides in Kenya’s Maasai Mara
A worker arranges a copy of the Business Daily newspaper at a printing press plant on the outskirts of Nairobi.
Culture
What to do when the airwaves and papers tell these women they’re inferior — or worse?
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Business
In Kenya, so much depends on the orange flesh sweet potato
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Business
She’s one of the only women to pilot a ‘matatu,’ the minibus taxis that keep Nairobi moving
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Business
In one of Africa’s largest slums, these girls saved to solve a problem
Rapper Stella Mwangi
Music
Kenyan rapper Stella Mwangi means business
Three women in hijab wait as a boy swims in the ocean in front of the Casa Nemo Beach Resort and Spa of Pulau Weh island, Indonesia.
Business
Her resort is a refuge from more than just stress
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Business
This bank hired its first female employee, and now women line up to open accounts
Music
Music was the path to financial independence for this Indian woman
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Business
Here are three women blazing a trail in the red-hot mezcal industry